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On Health for Women

141 The Birth Circle: Facing and Healing Postpartum Anxiety with Gabby Bernstein

On Health for Women

Aviva Romm

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Arts

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In today’s very special Birth Circle episode of Natural MD Radio I sit down with multi-time-NYT best-selling author, Oprah Super Soul Sunday guest, and dear friend Gabby Bernstein to talk about her experience with Postpartum anxiety. After a 3 year journey to conception, followed by a beautiful birth - that I was very blessed to attend - Gabby found herself paralyzed with postpartum anxiety: not eating, not sleeping, afraid to socialize, afraid to leave her house, and in a constant state of fear and despair. In this episode, Gabby shares her experience of facing her postpartum anxiety and her decision to seek help and go on psychiatric medications to get her thru this very painful period of time. For show notes, go to avivaromm.com/141

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0:14.3

Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting us to become more vigilant.

0:29.2

After all, we're wearing our hearts outside of our bodies

0:35.4

in the form of our little tiny ones

0:37.4

and we feel so consumed by protecting them.

0:42.0

We worry about whether they're breathing in the first couple of

0:44.4

days, whether they're getting enough milk, whether we're good enough mothers, and

0:47.5

a thousand other things, but for the most part we're not in a constant state of

0:51.8

hyper-vigilance to where we can't sleep, can't eat, we have so much

0:55.4

anxiety that we lose weight and sometimes we just feel like we can't breathe.

0:59.3

But for about 6% of pregnant women and 10% of post-partum women anxiety and sometimes the double whammy of anxiety plus depression make an already big learning curve of being a mom into a mountain to climb.

1:12.9

For some women, there's pervasive general anxiety

1:16.1

and for some women that can be accompanied

1:18.1

by panic disorder or even postpartum OCD.

1:21.1

And for some women, there's a combination of these. My guest today is a multi-time New York Times best-selling

1:28.0

author of books like May Cause Miracles, The Judgment Detox, and the universe has your back. She's an Oprah super solace. the Judgment

1:34.1

Super Soul Sunday Past Guest, a sought after talk show host,

1:39.0

a guest and has had appearances on everything from the Rachel Ray Show to Good Morning America

1:44.8

and was at one point described by Forbes magazine as the best branded woman in America.

1:49.3

I was at her house when Marion Williamson called to tell her she was running for president.

1:54.0

My guest is in arguably a superstar.

1:56.7

And like so many women, she too has experienced trauma and addiction in her life.

2:01.8

Her pathway to success and a nearly million strong

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