155. Motherhood Mondays with Dr. Molly Millwood, Clinical Psychologist
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
"There's a fear of the foundation we're standing on having too many cracks in it."
Dr. Molly Millwood is a clinical psychologist and licensed psychotherapist specializing in marital therapy and intimate relationships. She's also the author of the just-released book, To Have and To Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, & the Modern Dilemma. On this episode, Dr. Millwood — a mom of two — expands on many of the new-mom-related topics she covers in her brilliant book, including guilt, shame, missing life before baby, marriage after baby, gender roles for new parents, and social media. Dr. Millwood lives in Vermont with her husband and two sons.
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What you'll get on this episode:
- What tends to hold new moms back from going to therapy (8:00)
- The shame and guilt surrounding new motherhood (13:00)
- On missing "life before baby" (21:00)
- Why no one is talking about what their romantic relationships are like after having a baby (25:00)
- How couples can improve their communication when talking about tough stuff (34:30)
- On expectations (40:20)
- How social media affects new moms (44:50)
- Some of the most common reasons women come to Molly for therapy (48:00)
- What does a first-time therapy session actually look like? (54:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood Mondays on the Alley on the Run Show are brought to you by Sweaty Betty. |
| 0:08.6 | Okay, so we've covered pregnancy, we've covered childbirth, we've talked about recovery and pelvic |
| 0:14.5 | floor health, and we dove into maternal mortality. We've talked quite a bit about new motherhood, |
| 0:20.4 | we've talked about raising strong, confident girls and boys, and along the way we've touched on |
| 0:25.5 | women's experiences with breastfeeding, infertility, miscarriage, loss, and of course, that little word |
| 0:32.1 | balance. With just two episodes in the Motherhood Monday series to go, I felt it was very important |
| 0:38.3 | to bring in an expert to talk about this stuff most people don't want to talk about. The mental |
| 0:44.0 | health stuff, the postpartum mood stuff, the messy marriage stuff. There are a lot of great books |
| 0:51.4 | out there about motherhood and parenting, but none gave my highlighter a workout, quite like Dr. |
| 0:56.8 | Molly Millwood's To Have and To Hold, Motherhood Marriage and the Modern Dilemma. Molly holds a |
| 1:03.0 | PhD in clinical psychology with advanced specialized training in marital therapy and intimate relationships, |
| 1:09.7 | and she wrote the book She Wanted when she was a new mom. It is hands down, my favorite new mom |
| 1:15.2 | book so far, and I found it so helpful as I navigate my own world as a new mother and wife. |
| 1:21.2 | So go get the book, I linked to it in the show notes from this episode, and enjoy this TMI |
| 1:26.6 | filled conversation with Dr. Molly Millwood. Dr. Molly Millwood, welcome to Motherhood Mondays on |
| 1:41.3 | the Alley on the Run Show. As a huge fan of your book, I am thrilled and honored to get to have |
| 1:47.7 | this conversation. Thank you so much for being here today. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:53.2 | All right, we're going to kick things off with a couple quick questions so we get to know you, |
| 1:56.6 | we get to know this expert who's about to dish out all this good advice. First, can you tell |
| 2:01.0 | everyone where do you live and what exactly are you an expert in? So I live in a small town in Vermont, |
| 2:10.1 | and I am a clinical psychologist, so I have my PhD in clinical psychology. I'm a licensed |
| 2:16.8 | psychotherapist, and I have over time developed particular expertise in women's issues, the |
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