As moms, there's this whole idea and societal pressure expectations that moms should have it all together or we should do this and we should feel so much joy because we have this incredible gift of new baby,

which is true, but women don't always feel joyful. And that's okay too. And there's more women than

not, I think, that have anxiety with new babies. Hey guys. Hey guys. Welcome back to another episode of the

selfie show where we are bringing you the

weekly dose of sweet and salty. I am Tori the founder and now co-host of the selfie show.

I am a nurse podcaster, blogger, and sitting across from me is my very stunning co-host.

And I am Sam. I am a flight nurse, college professor, podcaster,

powerlifter, and co-host of the selfie show. And today we are talking off the clock about

postpartum, everything, mental health. Yeah. Anxiety. Postpartum psychosis. Depression. Psychosis is

I didn't actually really know much about coming from our

NICU experience. Yeah. I feel like. This is a big topic. Yeah. Shocked that we actually weren't a little more

up to date on it. Yeah, 100%. It's interesting because we didn't know much about this. And this past month,

May was actually Mental Health Awareness Month. And so we just thought it would be nice to kind of bring this on and this is more of a personal count full of also resources for women out there because this is clearly something that we are not talking enough about no and I think coming from the NICU world, it's obviously something we're both passionate

about and you still being in that field. You see on the regular. So you know firsthand how much we need to

improve this area. 100%. So speaking of Mental Health Awareness Month. Yeah. How are you doing?

Oh, this is such a great question. Sam and I were talking about this off

the clock about how important it is as friends to check in on one another and even sometimes

going to the right question as opposed to, hey, how you doing? Yeah. So if I ask someone, hey, how are you?

No one really wants to be like awful.

This is what's wrong. This is what, I mean, maybe if it's like a close, close friend, but a lot of times that's such a fluff question to just make small talk, but no one really wants to talk about it. But I don't think we're very intentional enough about checking in with our people to really be like,

Tori, how are you? Right. Like for real. For real. Yeah. Yeah. No, Sam and I talked about this. So I have had a rough, I would say like a couple weeks. Well, first of all, I went on up. I popped off about my cloud. The cloud is going on when I'm at work, which is very real. Yeah. lately. But then disheveled lately. Yeah. But then the cloud hit me. Like, you got done with your shift and I went right into like your storm cloud was still there. Yeah. And we also discovered that that's probably, it was partly, I'm going to blame it on eclipse, the full moon, the crazy moon that happened. Yeah. I just say, I don't know. That was an awful week. 100%. But I don't know.

It's just been a crazy couple weeks. Can you just say? I don't know. That was an awful week. 100%. But I don't know.

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