Jessica Urlichs: Post Partum Anxiety

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

'I'd never really experienced anxiety like it until after I had my baby.' Jessica Urlichs is an incredible poet, children's book author and person from New Zealand. She became an instant source of comfort to me on Instagram when I was in the throes of postpartum anxiety, making me feel so less alone and batshit for feeling the way I was feeling. She too had a rough postpartum experience, with lots of anxiety. Here she shares her story. Follow her at @jessurlichs_writer on Instagram and follow me at @OwningItPodcast for more.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to owning it. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorun.substack.com. Thank you.
0:23.9	Hello, dear listener and welcome to owning it the anxiety podcast with me Caroline Forin.
0:28.9	I'm joined this week by such an incredible person and writer. She writes poetry. She writes
0:34.8	kids books. She's just a lovely person. Jessica Ehrlich, all the way from
0:39.1	New Zealand. She joins me to discuss her experience of anxiety, her experience of postpartum anxiety in
0:44.6	particular. She is a mother of two. She's about to become a mother of three. And she, like myself,
0:50.3	found it very difficult in the beginning. So we talk through her experience, what was going on,
0:55.4	what helped, what didn't, and how she's doing now. So I hope you find this helpful if you're in
1:00.0	those early days or you're expecting or maybe it's something that you can listen to in a healing
1:05.7	way that will help you think about the past if you went through it a while ago. But thank you for
1:09.7	listening. Thank you as always for the feedback And I hope that you enjoy this episode. Jessica Ehrlich, thank you so much for
1:22.6	joining me on Owning at the Anxiety podcast. I have been down to have you on for so long. You're all the way down
1:28.7	in New Zealand. It's nighttime where you are. So thank you for making the time. Thank you so
1:33.3	much for having me. I've been looking forward to this too. You have been such a source of comfort
1:38.6	to me with your writing. You are the most incredible poetry writer for particularly motherhood.
1:43.8	And your books came to me at a time
1:46.1	when I was very much in the postpartum, really depths of anxiety and overwhelm. You're a prolific
1:52.6	writer, you're huge on social media, and you're a mum yourself of soon to be three. Yes,
1:57.7	soon to be three. Congratulations. Thank you. And also, not only have you
2:02.3	written the poetry books, which have just resonated with so many people on so many levels and
2:06.9	saved people, really, to be quite honest, you also write children's books and your book,
2:11.8	but the rainbow in my heart is Kalen, my son. It's his literal favorite book. He just loves it so
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