Hello listeners, Christine here with an extra surprise for you today. If you've listened to our media

and entertainment review episodes, you've heard me rave about the Gimlet Media shows Homecoming, Science

Verses, and The Habitat. Today we want to introduce you to a new podcast from Gimlet Media that

we think you'll love, Motherhood Sessions. On Motherhood Sessions, psychiatrist Dr. Alexandra

Sacks works with women who are struggling with the massive life and identity shifts that accompany

motherhood. In the first episode, you'll hear from Zoe, a woman who's grappling with low self-esteem,

a difficult ex who isn't carrying his co-parenting weight, the challenge of asking for help, and how to deal

with her anger over what she now sees as a path filled with red flags that she chose to ignore.

Keep listening to hear the full first episode of Motherhood Sessions, which follows this message.

Note that Motherhood Sessions covers sensitive topics and includes some profanity.

We hope this honest, compelling conversation resonates with you.

And if you love what you hear, you can listen to Motherhood Sessions on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I need therapy really, really bad.

Just the idea of having to face my shit in any sense right now is, like, it's

been so easy, yeah, it's been so easy to just, like, shove it under the rug, keep going,

just tackle more problems that aren't the problem, you know, like, I just don't want to deal

with it.

I don't want to deal with it.

This is Motherhood Sessions. This is Motherhood Sessions.

I'm Dr. Alexander Sacks.

I'm a psychiatrist who works with pregnant women and new mothers.

On this show, I sit down with these women and talk about some of the hardest and most sensitive issues they're facing.

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