EP140. Maternal Mental Health, with A Mouthful of Air Author & Director, Amy Koppelman
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
EP140. Amy Koppelman wrote the novel, A Mouthful of Air, 20 years ago. The harrowing story about maternal mental health is now a motion picture featuring Amanda Seyfried as the main character, Julie. In this episode, Amy and Renee chat about how the conversation around maternal mental health has changed in the last 20 years, medication in pregnancy, postpartum, and more.
RENEE REINA
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AMY KOPPELMAN
Novel: A Mouthful of Air
Instagram: @amy_koppelman @amouthfulofair
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| 1:10.5 | All right, it is Tuesday and today's episode is very special because it is all about a topic |
| 1:17.4 | that I feel passionately about and that I love talking about because there needs to be more |
| 1:23.7 | conversations in the universe about this topic, and that is maternal mental health. |
| 1:29.7 | Whether that be, you know, during pregnancy, in early postpartum, or even later on in |
| 1:35.6 | postpartum, mom's mental health is something that needs to be talked about more. |
| 1:41.3 | And this is why I am so happy that I got to chat with Amy |
| 1:46.0 | Copleman. She is a writer and a producer. 20 years ago, she wrote a novel called A Mouthful |
| 1:53.9 | of Air. And I can't believe that she wrote a novel based on the whole story is about postpartum depression pretty much. |
| 2:03.5 | And I'm shocked that she wrote it 20 years ago because like she was saying in this episode, |
| 2:09.4 | 20 years ago, it wasn't even a known thing. Like people didn't even use those terms back then. |
| 2:15.7 | But through her own experience, she knew that this was a thing |
| 2:20.2 | that existed and that needed to be talked about. So she wrote this book 20 years ago, |
| 2:26.2 | struggled with getting a movie made based on the book until now. So on October, I believe |
| 2:32.9 | it was 29th, the movie, Mouth Full of Air came out in |
| 2:36.9 | select theaters. It is starring Amanda Seyfried. I never know how to say her last name, but you all |
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