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The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy

Ep 242: Pregnant Americans are Feeling Dark Emotions

The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy

Elizabeth Presta

Education, Parenting, Kids & Family, Self-improvement

4.23.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week I am sharing stories from pregnant Americans who are opening up about their dark emotions in pregnancy. This is 1 of 4 epsiodes that are shedding light on new research around the mental health crisis among pregnant Americans. This new research has been conducted by Nonfiction and is called The Invisible Weight that has been commission by Twill.

The remaining three episodes can be found at

https://www.twill.health/theinvisibleweight

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Marqueo's Mama's podcast.

0:10.1

I'm your host Elizabeth Joy and I'm so glad that you're with us.

0:12.8

If you missed last week's episode, make sure you go back and listen to it.

0:15.4

Amelia's on talking all about birth story medicine.

0:19.4

And we really dove into identity shifts that happen in pregnancy and in motherhood.

0:25.9

And she talked about a term called matrescence.

0:28.2

And it's so fitting because you're going to hear that in today's episode as well, just

0:31.4

that term coined for that season that you're in.

0:35.7

And it's so hard to describe because each of us experiences it so differently.

0:41.0

And for today's episode, it's going to look a little bit different.

0:44.6

I'm partnering with Twill, which if you haven't heard about them, they are doing amazing

0:50.6

work.

0:51.6

They actually care about global problems and they build teams that are specifically

0:56.6

equipped to tackle the challenges that the world is facing every single day.

1:01.5

And if this is your first time hearing about Twill, they are a digital first healthcare

1:06.1

company that they're just trying to entangle the fragmented complex healthcare system.

1:12.8

And we've together the best of the digital and human care to support better mental health.

1:18.4

We have been talking about mental health a lot.

1:22.2

It's so amazing that it's being destigmatized.

1:24.9

But there's still so much that goes into it.

1:27.8

And given that mental health impacts all our health because the body and the mind is connected,

1:34.6

Twill's really trying to develop solutions that they're calling sequences for a number

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