S4E11 - Things We Don't Talk About Enough
from Stay Rooted
Stephani and Lauren turn a funny, unfiltered catch-up into a (not really) surprisingly vulnerable conversation about the things women are expected to carry quietly, from postpartum support to project-management-level adulthood to the weirdly intimate politics of what we do and do not talk about enough.What starts with moms, side characters, and the sacred chaos of family tea spirals into a full-on cultural brain dump. Lauren and Stephani celebrate the blunt honesty of Gen X and boomer moms, break down why meeting your best friend’s parents tells you more than any origin story, and revisit the strange, hilarious ways childhood, adulthood, and motherhood blur together. Then the episode shifts from hilarious to deeply real as they unpack postpartum mental health, the way it gets mislabeled and minimized, and why new mothers need far more care, language, and support than they usually get.
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