EP22: Dr. Kelly Brogan on Childbirth, Motherhood, and Postpartum as a PsychoSpiritual Awakening

"We blame the victim, and medicate her as the only offering." Dr. Kelly Brogan is a board-certified non-prescribing psychiatrist. She is the author of NYT Bestseller, A Mind of Your Own. (Get your copy ASAP). She is revolutionizing the way that we view mental health and how people heal. She is a pioneer and a trailblazer and this interview is full of the fire that propels her. I was honored that she shared her own experience of childbirth and motherhood, and why she didn't think she was "mom material."  What You'll Hear: Kelly went into medicine to serve women The best births are natural births, according to the evidence Her postpartum period was a reckoning, which allowed her to wake up and honor herself We blame the victim, when it comes to postpartum The worst things that happen to us are moments of psycho-spiritual initiation Her tremendous masculine energy, her need to fight for others, and how she wasn't sure she was mom material   What Kelly Shares: Why women are prescribed antidepressants at double the rate of men (1:34) How she woke up to holistic medicine & spirituality (3:10) Why she had a natural birth (4:00) Her postpartum journey with Hashimoto's (4:50) The biological reasons autoimmune diseases begin expressing during postpartum (6:49) And the other reasons: postpartum is a reckoning and an opportunity (10:07) Postpartum is a psycho-spiritual awakening (11:33) Restructuring yourself and tapering off psych meds (14:14) What are you stuffing that caused you to go on medication? (16:00) We don't hold space for fear, and that's exactly where we need to go (16:25) We meet our true selves in natural childbirth (17:00) Why Kelly didn't think she was mom material (18:15) Natural home births are the truth (21:10) We need to live what we talk about, to be great practitioners (24:10) The history-making results of Kelly's program, the Vital Mind Reset (26:25)