Postpartum Depression :: Brittany Turner [Ep 277]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As difficult as pregnancy and birth tend to be, the postpartum period can be the hardest of all. After all the anticipation you finally have your baby! But many women don’t feel like themselves. They feel sad or hopeless and struggle to connect with their babies.

My guest Brittany J. Turner takes us into her story of postpartum depression and what it took for her to start a journey towards wholeness.

For me it was years of pain that I had never dealt with. They were feeding this lie that I was alone, that I was unworthy of being loved, not just in my marital and parenting relationships, but I was unworthy of being loved as a daughter, as a friend and that I deserve to be alone. And so therapy was my escape.

While postpartum depression can’t totally be prevented or even predicted, we also talk about what went differently after she had her next child and the big part friendships and deeper community played.

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Playlists and encouragement--Brittany's Battle Ready Toolkit
Other episodes on postpartum depression -- Karen Harmon (Ep 231) https://dontmomalone.com/2019/01/21/praising-through-the-pain-of-physical-limitations-karen-harmon-ep-231/

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0:00.0	Hey y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alarm Podcast. I'm your host Heather McFadian and
0:13.2	this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside you and connect you with people
0:16.8	and resources so you know you don't mom alone. That's particularly important in this
0:23.6	conversation episode 277 with my friend Brittany Turner. However I think in the church we can
0:32.4	become so overly cautious of what we say that we just turn to the other end of the spectrum of
0:37.4	bottling everything up and so I always say I had like a thousand Coke bottles on a table
0:43.6	and I was trying to carefully keep all of the bottles filled with all the junk without knocking
0:48.8	the table over and somebody slammed into the table and they all fell and so I spent therapy
0:55.6	deciding not to pick them all back up and reset them but instead to clean the table and I think
1:01.0	that's where Christian and counselor really helped because they were there to help remind me of the
1:04.9	truths of that was where Brittany is a new friend to me I met her last fall at the sister circle
1:10.6	retreat and then we hung her out again and had coffee and I held her newest little baby girl.
1:16.0	She has three young girls her husband is a worship leader and today she is vulnerability sharing
1:22.2	her story of walking through postpartum depression she is a wealth of wisdom she has studied God's word
1:28.0	she can teach but she also is letting you know you're not alone but not leaving you there she's
1:34.8	going to help you get unstuck she's going to share what promoted her healing process and honestly
1:40.8	if you've never dealt with postpartum depression I would love for you still to listen because I think
1:45.3	it will give you insight on how to be a better friend to the moms around you and how to be that
1:51.5	community that she needs so let's get right to it here we go hey Brittany welcome to the don't
1:59.7	mom alone podcast hey I'm so happy to be here oh I'm thrilled it's just it's really easier for me
2:06.6	when I have met the guests in person yeah and I just I adore you I know that there are
2:15.1	thousands one thousands of thousands of moms in the same place you are as far as the stage yeah
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