This episode is also appearing as Episode 87 for my first podcast Adventures With Postpartum Depression.

The therapist I mentioned is Tiffany Roe. I love her work and highly recommend her podcast Therapy Thoughts, her newsletter, her IG feed… I’m obsessed, okay? Check her out!

In this week’s episode, I talk about maternal mental health because it’s Maternal Mental Health Week 2021. Woot woot! One week a year is not enough for maternal mental health. We should be talking about it all the time.

As I was brainstorming ideas for this episode, I thought about how in my own work as a mental health activist, I often focus on postpartum depression. I love talking about postpartum depression because there is still a stigma around that illness, but maternal mental health does not end there.

Mental health is not a destination. It’s a journey that lasts our entire lives. We sometimes reach way stations where we can relax and take in the view but there is always more to be done. New level, new devil. And that’s great! I love the work of becoming my most authentic self, and that work includes keeping my mental health as robust as possible.

Mental health matters and I’m excited to keep talking about it on my podcast.