Episode 246: Mental Health, Relationships, and Life's Transitions with Alessandra Torresani
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode focuses on the impact of significant life transitions on relationships and mental health, emphasizing the need for open communication and understanding. Alessandra Torresani is my special-guest. She is a multi-hyphenate actress, host, creator, and mental health advocate.
In this episode, Alessandra's candidness extends to societal stigmas, the fear of judgment, and the importance of recognizing mental health challenges in both men and women. By sharing her journey with Bipolar 1 Disorder, Alessandra aims to break down barriers and encourage others to seek help, fostering a community of support and understanding.
Tune in for a conversation about postpartum struggles, mental health challenges, and navigating parenthood with vulnerability and strength.
Featured topics include:
- Alessandra discusses the physical, emotional, and identity changes of being a new mom. (4:36)
- The impact of significant life transitions, such as becoming a parent, on marriages (5:33)
- We explore the question, "Why does stating you want a divorce seem like such a surprise to a partner?" (17:00)
- What to know when it comes to creating a parenting plan as a new mom (18:55)
- Alessandra shares her experience living with Bipolar 1 Disorder and navigating motherhood and marriage while not being medicated (24:26)
- Mental health and relationships: Some advice for those in relationships where someone has a mental illness and is not doing anything about it (40:09)
Learn more about Alessandra Torresani:
Alessandra is a multi-hyphenate actress, host, creator, and mental health advocate. She is dedicated to de-stigmatizing mental health by spreading kindness, compassion and hope. She brings tons of fun and laughter to her mission with sharing her story about living with BiPolar 1 Disorder on her podcast EmotionAL Support.
Resources & Links:
Pre-order Kate's book "The D Word"
EmotionAL Support Pod
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other |
| 0:33.9 | side of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:44.8 | Hey everyone. Welcome back. Happy Mary, almost Christmas, almost New Year. We're getting there. We're getting to the point of putting |
| 0:57.3 | 2023 behind us. But before we do that, I want to introduce you to an amazing human being who I |
| 1:06.5 | just adore. We met this week on her podcast. She had me on her podcast and then immediately |
| 1:13.7 | I turned around and had her on mine because I just love talking to her so much. You may know her |
| 1:19.8 | as an actress. She's been on tons of stuff on TV and film and she is a mom and she lives with bipolar disorder. And she is a mental health |
| 1:33.7 | advocate. And she's just an extraordinary human. And I've really loved talking to her. Her name is |
| 1:41.5 | Alessandra Torasani. And she is the coolest. So here is my conversation |
| 1:48.4 | with Alessandra Torsani. Alessandra Torsani. I'm so happy to have you here. You're a mom, |
| 1:58.8 | you're an actor, you're a mental health advocate. This is all like a lot of, |
| 2:04.7 | there's a lot here. You're somewhat of a new mom. A new mom as you can hear my baby right here, |
| 2:12.4 | like silently sleeping next to me. So very much a new mom in the sense of, you know, 17 months. So I feel like that's still fairly new. I keep calling her my newborn. And I'm like, wait, that's not right. She's not a newborn. But I can't. Oh, wait. Oh, wait. She's walking and talking. I saw this mom yesterday and she was, she was pregnant. And she said said I think she was like seven months pregnant or |
| 2:34.5 | something and it was at an event and I was like oh how are you know how are you feeling you know |
| 2:39.0 | because everyone asked like oh my god are you so excited but I feel like people don't ask moms how |
| 2:44.3 | are you really like how are you really doing oh yeah 100% it's a it's a journey and she was like oh everything is great and rainbows and butterflies and |
| 2:54.0 | I was like oh yeah I'm a new mom too and then I like spit out 17 months and I was like oh that's not |
| 3:00.6 | a new mom anymore every day feels new when you're when your baby when your kids are so little every day feels new when your, when your kids are so little. Every day feels new, right? I mean, |
| 3:12.2 | insanity. You're a mental health advocate. You are very open with your own struggles. I live with |
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