Mommy Brain - How your Brain Changes as a Mother

Ever heard of “Mommy Brain” or noted comments, or even had your own reservations, about how your brain changes through pregnancy and motherhood? Dr Jodi Pawluski helps us explore some of the research that challenges the cultural messages around how motherhood in some way leaves a woman’s cognitive capacities defective - and instead sheds light on the gifts of the maternal brain.  If you have ever wondered about how your brain is changed through motherhood, the complex factors that influence our experience of motherhood and ways that we can start challenging the dominant discourse around mother’s and their capacity to function, contribute and perform in our modern society - then this episode is for you! I’d love to hear your experience of this episode, please feel free to drop a comment below with any of your thoughts.  As always, we continue this conversation over on Instagram. Come join us there.  Resources:  Website Instagram  Podcast About Jodi Pawluski:   Dr. Jodi Pawluski is a Neuroscientist, Therapist and Author.  Her work focuses on the Science of Mommy Brain, the Neuroscience of Parenting and Perinatal Mental Health. For over fifteen years Jodi has studied the neuroscience of motherhood and the effects of perinatal mental illness and antidepressant medications on the mother and developing offspring. Her work has been published in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals and she regularly speaks nationally and internationally about her research findings as well as the fascinating effects of parenting on the brain. She is active in counselling, mentoring and advocating for improvements to perinatal mental health care and research on the parental brain. In 2020 Dr. Pawluski started a podcast called Mommy Brain Revisited which focuses on bringing current research on the parental brain to the general public. She also recently published a book titled Mommy Brain: Discover the amazing power of the maternal brain (Demeter Press and in French at Larousse).