180. Supporting Your Mama Needs Through Realistic Strategies with The Matrescence
HERself
Abby and Amy
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Megan and Lauren from The Matrescence are back with us today. If you’ve been around for a while then you know they were on previously in episode #112.
The Matrescence was born out of a desire to help other women navigate their personal experiences with motherhood while providing a community to support, uplift, and empower one another. Lauren is a licensed and trained registered nurse in the NICU and a mom of three precious little men. She is also now a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, focusing on women’s health and wellness. Megan splits her time developing marketing strategies for national brands and chasing three toddlers.
In today’s episode we cover everything from anxiety to depression to what this looks like inside motherhood and how we can keep ourselves mentally well. This month is mental health awareness month and as you guys know we think this is so important.
Lauren and Megan provide us with strategies on how we can cope with mental health challenges, explain how we can start to accept help for those of us who struggle in this area, and share their top wellness tips that they recommend every mom does.
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| 0:00.0 | lean into those people who will support you, but you do have to learn to accept the help. |
| 0:05.2 | And if people offer it in the season of motherhood, I think it's an authentic offer. |
| 0:10.0 | People wouldn't offer to help pick your kids up from school or have that play date or come over |
| 0:16.3 | and do your laundry so that you can snuggle that new baby if you're a new mama. |
| 0:20.0 | They wouldn't offer the help if they didn't mean it. And I think being able to say thank you |
| 0:25.7 | and accept that help is a learned skill because we've been taught not to do that or it seems like |
| 0:32.7 | that way. I'm Amy and I'm Abby and as women we are constantly comparing ourselves to others, |
| 0:44.2 | but your life isn't supposed to look like hers. Being your best self means standing firm in your |
| 0:49.7 | decisions and always being willing to grow with a purpose. We get vulnerable and real with an |
| 0:55.6 | honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face. Every woman listening is an opportunity |
| 1:01.6 | to choose what life looks like for herself. Today we are thrilled because we have Megan and Lauren |
| 1:12.0 | on from the mattresses. If you've been around for a while you know that they were on episode 112 |
| 1:18.5 | with Abby. I remember I had to miss that one because I was sick or had a sick kid. So I was |
| 1:23.7 | excited to finally be able to talk with them. And something that we're talking about today is |
| 1:30.0 | perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Otherwise known as p-mad and they will use that abbreviation |
| 1:36.6 | during the interview so just so that you're up to speed p-mad again means perinatal mood and |
| 1:42.6 | anxiety disorders. So we jump into everything from anxiety to depression to what this all looks |
| 1:50.6 | like inside of motherhood and how we can keep ourselves mentally well because it is mental health |
| 1:58.1 | awareness month which you guys know we think it's just so important to make sure that you are |
| 2:04.1 | doing well mentally and Lauren and Megan are going to help us with that today. So let's get into |
| 2:10.5 | the episode. Okay we want to dive right in today. We know that you guys work with a lot of women |
| 2:18.6 | as mental health practitioners and as a part of your community. What are the biggest challenges |
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