In this episode Thrive Spice founder and host, Vanessa Shiliwala, takes time from her busiest month(Mental Health Awareness and AAPIHM) to talk about mental health for moms. Kate and Vanessa share their experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, how they diagnosed what they were feeling as more than just the baby blues and pandemic stress and how they work to keep their mental health in check.
- Vanessa shares the additional struggles and stigmas the BIPOC community faces with mental health, both being more susceptible to postpartum depression and less likely to treat it
- Postpartum mental health issues can manifest in many ways and not everyone is the same. The medical system in the US fails mothers after birth with such limited regular check-ups to how the mother is healing or adjusting. Even if others don't, keep asking yourself if you're acting, feeling, or thinking like yourself.
- If you are not feeling like yourself, reach out to therapists, friends, or other moms you believe will be helpful. Not having your feelings or concerns around your mental health is almost as damaging as not saying anything at all. Don't take "it's normal" for an answer.
- We all need to keep hearing this as moms, selfcare is not selfish!
