Hey guys, welcome back to Preview Alliance podcast. This is Sarah. And today I'm so excited about this

episode, guys. We're in October. And if you guys don't know this, it's not just Halloween month.

It is about perimenipause menopause

awareness. So I have brought to us an amazing expert, Dr. Lindsay Sandhiven, who's going to be

telling us from a reproductive psychiatrist level, from a lady, from a woman, from a mom level,

hey, what are we going to be prepared for? Lindsay, welcome. Thank you so much for having me.

So tell us who you are because I got to know you recently and I think you're fabulous and

the best advocate for moms out there, but let our listeners know about you.

Yeah, yeah.

So I'm a psychiatrist and then I did additional training to become sort of expert in understanding how mood,

anxiety, sleep, thinking are all impacted by hormones and hormonal fluctuations.

And so that's called reproductive psychiatry.

So reproductive psychiatry specifically focuses on how periods of reproductive transition, pregnancy,

postpartum, prior to the menstrual cycle, perimenopause, how those times are periods of

increased vulnerability and understanding how actually then the mental health approach might

need to be different. So I am trained as a psychiatrist. I did

additional work to become, you know, expert in this area. And then I now am working as a visiting

associate clinical professor at Colorado University. And then I have and am the co-founder of a group

called the Reproductive Psychiatry Collaborative. And I also work on educational initiatives for a great group called the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry. So those are that. I love all that. Love all that. And mom and mother. So those are the hats. We love the fact that you're coming to us as an expert and a mom.

And what drew you to this? I guess that's always a good question of like, well, what? Because people are like, wait, I didn't even know this existed. But so why did she know this and why does she want to do this? Yeah, yeah. I think a number of things. I think many of us come to this due to our own lived experience. I had my own experience with infertility,

with polycystic ovary syndrome, with perinatal mood and anxiety. So it was interesting actually because all of that actually happened as I was training. And I think helped me to really,

I think, become really empathetic for my own lived experience about sort of

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