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

Helena Vissing, Psy.D. Our bodies, our minds and how we understand them in the change to motherhood. In this episode we are talking with Dr. Helena Vissing, about maternal ambivalence and some of the feminist psychanalytic and somatic perspectives on how women feel about their body related to pregnancy and postpartum. We are looking at how to broaden our understanding of maternal ambivalence and how ambivalence comes up how our body in motherhood. We discuss the mental changes of becoming a mother and the mixed feelings we sometimes have about our children - Love and Hate - Dr. Vissing has a Psy.D. in Applied Clinical Psychology. She has experience working as a School Psychologist and in private practice from her home country Denmark. She moved to Los Angeles in 2010, where she conducted a doctoral dissertation study on the experience of becoming a mother in the Psy.D. program at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the psychology of the