Rooted to Rise: Burnout Is a Maternal Health Crisis — Here’s How We Change It

You answered the texts.You made the appointments.You held the baby and the budget.You ran the meeting AND remembered the pediatrician appointment.You made it all look easy.Now name one thing you did for you this week. 🤔 Here's the part nobody is saying out loud: The chronic stress, unresolved trauma, and burnout women carry in our bodies show up as hypertension, heart disease, and the comorbidities that contribute to maternal mortality in this country. We cannot heal mothers in a system that breaks the women who serve them. And we cannot ask mothers to thrive while we're also carrying the weight of generations. For this episode we down with three women who have devoted their work to changing that. ✨ Lorin Burke MS LPC, NCC — founder of The Village: A Space for Healing. Lorin is a maternal mental health specialist and licensed therapist who helps women regulate their nervous systems and reconnect with who they are beyond their roles. Her work feels like a deep exhale.✨ Michal Renee', RCP, NBCHWC — founder of Her Promise Circle and a critical care respiratory therapist with over a decade in the hospital. Michal builds faith-integrated wellness frameworks that prevent crisis before it begins. She is one of the most clinically rigorous and spiritually grounded voices in this work.✨ Ashley Burton-Mims — certified postpartum doula and founder of Emerald & Rose Consulting. Ashley helps individuals and organizations navigate burnout with research-backed strategies, with a deep commitment to women and gender-expansive people of color. Her tagline says it all: burn bright, not out. And I'll be there as your host — bringing this conversation home to the mothers and maternal leaders we serve every day at The Heart Next Door.This is for the women who believe mothers deserve more than survival — and who are building that future alongside us. If you are a mother running on fumes, this is for you. If you are a doula, midwife, lactation consultant, therapist, or birthworker pouring out daily, this is especially for you. If you love a woman who is doing too much, bring her with you.Learn more about this series at heartnextdoor.com 🤍#maternalhealth #burnout #womeninwellness