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Hello. Carolineforan.substack.com. Thank you. Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline

Foran. For this episode, I am finally getting around to sharing my experience of postpartum anxiety.

It got me real good and it wasn't fun. But I had Leila. She is a

metressens facilitator and founder of Nuana.com which offers a series of supports and courses

for expectant and new mothers helping them to thrive in the transition into motherhood.

And she guided me so wonderfully through the anxiety in those first few weeks, helping me to better understand

it and reassuring me that despite what you might see on social media, it's incredibly normal

to feel overwhelmed and sometimes very anxious when you've just had a baby. So here we talk about

postpartum anxiety, what's going on, what it is, what's happening physically and emotionally,

and how we can help

our bodies and minds to find equilibrium again, as well as what needs to happen at a societal level

to normalise these very normal experiences. I hope you enjoy it and thanks as always for your

feedback and reviews. Laila Omar, thank you so much for joining me on owning it, the Anxiety Podcast.

I, in my introduction, was listing off all of your incredible accolades to date, but how would

you describe what you do for new mothers in particular? I guess what I do is I work with mums both when

they're pregnant to help them prepare for the journey into motherhood, be that for the first

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