Ep. 85 Getting Chatty about Birth and Motherhood with Jess and Bekah from The Chatty Broads Pod

Recovering From Reality

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🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week I am joined by Jess and Bekah from the Chatty Broads Podcast. We dive into so many great topics like motherhood in quarantine, living with bi-polar disorder, mental health, our birth stories and the importance of making informed decisions and maintaining bodily autonomy in the birthing process.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:07.5	Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,
0:11.6	where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.
0:16.1	Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the
0:20.5	capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,
0:26.2	we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.
0:33.0	So are you ready to recover from reality?
0:39.8	I've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder a few years before that and when I found that I was
0:44.1	pregnant, I was just so scared in general that I'm like, will I be able to be a mom and also be
0:50.0	a bipolar person? Have you been stabilized on meds before your pregnancy?
0:56.0	Yes, I had and I had to go off of all that medicine. I was going to say you had to go off to your
0:59.7	meds. What was that experience like? I was horrified, you know, before I was put on meds, I had been
1:09.4	you know, 51-50, I'd had a lot of like traumatic experiences just in my own home and after going
1:17.2	on meds, after they found the right medication for me, you know, it was very like testing.
1:22.4	Yeah, it takes a while sometimes. It takes a while to go out for me and then when they found
1:26.1	that right fit, I did feel a lot better. I didn't feel like quite like myself, but I felt stable
1:32.6	and so when they told me you have to go off meds, I was just like, are you fucking kidding me?
1:39.8	I have no idea what I'm going to be like. This is insane.
1:44.2	That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Jess and Becca from the Chatti Broad's podcast.
1:53.6	If you guys haven't heard me on their podcast, you can go back a couple of months to listen to my
1:59.4	episode. I batched so much content. I literally have content for you guys through the end of the
2:06.3	year at this point. And so I was a little bit slower at releasing their episode than they were mine.
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