Hi, guys. Welcome back to Previlliance podcast is Sarah and I'm with your favorite therapist, also mine, Whitney. Welcome.

Hey, friends. Whitney, we had a lot of questions recently and I'd actually texted you this.

I was like, this is such a good valid point.

And I think it comes naturally to maybe me and you, even though I have found myself awkward

in this before.

And is I keep being asked.

So I love what you guys are talking about.

I love maternal mental health awareness.

Right.

How do you bring that awareness to someone who is trying to get pregnant, pregnant, newly

postpartum?

This may be the first time that someone's broaching this conversation.

Right.

I thought it's just a really good point of it's awkward still. There's still stigma. There's still this.

You don't want to be doom and gloom, right? But you want to empower this person.

Right. So I think, remember, keep in mind, this isn't a stranger at Target or Walmart that you're approaching.

You're not just going up to some random person and saying, oh, I see that you're pregnant.

Do you know about postpartum depression and anxiety?

This is someone that you know that you have a relationship with, whether it be a family member, coworker, friend, you know this person, there's some

rapport there. So when you approach them, remember, like, we're not starting from scratch.

Yeah. With that in mind, do you have a foundation there with this person? So when you do go up to

them, and let's just say that they are pregnant, and it is known that

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