Hey everyone and welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast. It is me, your host, Zoe Blaski. I'm so happy you've pushed that little play button. I'm so happy you are here. This is the show that's going to help you navigate the massive challenges of life as a modern mother with more confidence, with more self-awareness,

and hopefully with more joy, happiness and fun. This week's episode is with Dr. Serena Racer.

She is the founder of the postpartum doctor. She also has a very, very, very long list of

qualifications, which I won't read out, but one of them is that she has a doctorate degree in nursing. And of course, she has a very, very, very long list of qualifications, which I won't read out, but one of them is that

she has a doctorate degree in nursing. And of course, in this episode, we talk about

postpartum, because that is Dr. Serena's specialism. But this episode is really about the

pressures we put on ourselves as mothers and how to be much, much kinder to ourselves. So if you're

not in that postpartum period, if it feels like a distant memory, I promise you you will still get

something incredibly powerful from this episode. So we talk about the drive to do it all, to be

productive and busy where it comes from and why we find that drive so hard to reconcile

once we become mothers. Dr. Suina talks about why so many of us have that, oh my God, what have

I done moment with a newborn? And even normalizing that and say it out loud is so important because it's still so taboo the questioning and the challenges that we go through in that period.

Dr. Sweener talks about the incredible brain changes that happen and explain why we feel so different as mothers compared to our pre-motherhood selves. We also talk about why being in

community is so important for mothers. And we talk a lot about how to be kinder to yourself,

how to take that pressure off yourself. I hope you really enjoy this episode. Here it is.

Just a quick ask from me before we dive into this week's

episode. You might not know this, but we are a really small team behind the scenes at Motherkind,

but we have a massive ambition to support millions of mothers to feel more confident,

happy and empowered.

And even though we've got this incredible back catalogue of over 300 episodes, I really do feel

like we are just getting started.

And often you lovely listeners will ask me how you can support the podcast and help us reach more mums.

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