How can I repair relationships I have neglected while dealing with postpartum anxiety and depression?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Bree and addresses the question, “How can I repair relationships I have neglected while dealing with postpartum anxiety and depression?” With relationships that have become distant, if it is something you really want, you’re going to need to take the lead and initiate the repair.During this episode, Dr. Hanks guides Bree on how to reach out to her friends and separate her apology from the explanation of what has been happening in her life. Friendships ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships. Join me here every week
0:39.5	as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them with tools to find healing.
0:45.1	Today I am thrilled to welcome Brie to the podcast. Welcome, Bree. Hi, thank you so much for having me.
0:52.3	You're welcome. What is your question for me today?
0:55.9	So my question today is how do I repair relationships that I have neglected while dealing with postpartum anxiety and depression?
1:07.1	Okay. Are you over or are you treated? I am. Okay. So you're feeling better. Okay. Are you over or are you treated? I am. Okay. So you're feeling better. Yeah. It's been a long road. Yeah. I do. I feel like I'm coming out of it and I'm kind of seeing like out of survival mode and where I would like to be. And yeah, I just have particularly
1:31.1	a couple of friendships that kind of fell by the wayside while I was taking care of myself that
1:38.1	I would like to prepare essentially. Yeah. Yeah. gotcha. So what, what relationships are you wanting to repair?
1:49.6	So I have a couple of friends specifically in mind. They're friends that do not live nearby me.
1:58.6	So our friendships mostly, like, continue through text or calling each other
2:05.4	or that sort of way. One of them, we've been friends for a really long time, probably like nine or
2:13.6	10 years. And then another one is a more recent friendship where we'd only been friends for
2:19.2	a couple years kind of before I started dealing with everything. So I feel like we didn't quite
2:26.7	have all the time under our belt, but the relationship was like I felt a really good connection
2:32.4	with her and it was important to me. So I'd like to
2:36.0	rebuild that. Yeah. So have you had conversations with either of these friends about what
2:43.3	you've been going through? I haven't. No. Okay. Okay. So I would suggest that would be a good
2:50.6	place to start. Okay. Is to would suggest that would be a good place to start. Okay.
2:52.8	Is to reach out and say, you know, Susie, I want to let you know I've been going through a really difficult time for the past X amount of months.
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