Mom & Mind Podcast | Postpartum | Birth | Pregnancy | Maternal Mental Health |

Why Compassion? I'll tell you... I’ve been doing some deep thinking about the podcast, perinatal mental health in general and how to continue the movement forward through our neck of the woods here. I really believe and feel deeply that more information, awareness and support need to get to mothers and families. I believe that we can improve our efforts at prevention too and I’m hopeful to have that reflected in the podcast this year. How can we improve the lives of mothers, fathers, babies, couples? It’s a complicated issue or set of issues... For now, I’ll talk about one way through this in particular that I see A LOT. Well, maybe two ways. We need to change our culture of perfection-or-nothing and into a culture of compassion and flexibility. I think this is key to combat stigma, guilt and shame. I’m going to talk a little bit about developing self-compassion AND how OTHERS can be more compassionate towards those who are suffering. Short-hand: if you’re in it and suffering, be kind to yourself and allow fo