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Rising Phoenix Movement
by Leslee & Lindsey & Brave Voices
Maternal Mental Health looks different for everyone. Honestly, if one mom out there feels peace from these stories... our purpose here has been met. You are not alone. Please seek and accept any healthy support you can. This is not your forever, you will make it out of this!!! Postpartum Support Hotline 1.800.944.4773 PPD Survey - https://forms.gle/kMT3rcG6qp8ozzVk7
Episodes
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What are we up to now? Rising Phoenix Movement Update
Leslee here! We've been on a bit of a hiatus with recording episodes. But, that doesn't mean we aren't out doing as much as we can locally to help spread the message of maternal mental health. We are starting a new initiative to raise funds for parents to go through EMDR trauma therapy for PTSD....
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Mama Bear Your Mental Health
In this episode, Leslee talks with us about the importance of self love and healing on your journey through and after a perinatal mood disorder. She emphasizes the importance of treating your mental health like a mama bear treats her children. Protect it, and remember how important and worthy you...
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Episode 53 - Brielle The Calming Doula
Brielle is a passionate doula with a goal to create a safe space for moms to process their birth, prepare for the unexpected and have someone by their side to create a healing experience. No matter what challenges come up. Having experienced an unhealthy relationship in college that lead to…
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Episode 52 - Lizzie Langston - The Postpartum Coach - Put Yourself First
Lizzie Langston is a mom to three kids, wife to a bearded hunk, and an AZ native living in Denver. After struggling twice with postpartum anxiety and depression, and after trying antidepressants, therapy and postpartum support groups, Lizzie found healing through the cognitive-based tools of Life...
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Episode 50 - Denise Wiesner - Fertility Expert on Putting Intimacy Back into Baby Making
Denise Wiesner, fertility and intimacy expert, gets real with us about how struggles with fertility can cause shame and dissolve intimacy. Sex can become associated with failure or loss after infertility. Making a baby can take center stage and we can lose the intimacy behind it all. She shares...
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Episode 49 - Yasmin's Story - A Mother's Advocate
Yasmin has no history of mental illness when she got pregnant. When she had to adjust from having one child, to two... it hit her. She experienced postpartum anxiety, OCD and rage. She felt like there was something wrong with her, she sought help from medical professionals. However, Yasmin fell...
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Episode 48 - Madi's Story - Sexual Abuse Survivor & Advocate
Madi sheds light on how being a survivor of sexual abuse can change the process of becoming a mom, and surface trauma. Madi was sexually abused in high school. It wasn't until she got pregnant and had to go get cervical exams that she was to triggered, she began to hate being pregnant. Madi talks...
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Episode 47 - Dr. Jessica Hayman - Mama Love Nutrition
Dr. Jessica Hayman chats with us about her "why" behind her MamaLove supplement. Having suffered through postpartum depression, she had a new passion for helping moms navigate a healthy way to balance their mood disorders. She created the MamaLove supplement to nourish mamas for the daily demands...
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Episode 46 - Ryanne's Story - Under Pressure
Ryanne brought such a breath of fresh air to social media when she started her page @honestlymomma! After experiencing postpartum after her 3rd child, she got exhausted following all of the influencer and mommy blogger pages and feeling like she wasn't enough. She's spent the last few years with…
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Episode 45 - Evi's Story - If There's Even a Question in your Mind - Seek Help!
Evi became a mom in her early 20's. After holding in her depression, anxiety and postpartum rage/anger - she started to have hallucinations. She realized she needed help. She moved closer to her family and support system, went to a psychiatrist, started medication and was on her journey of…
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Episode 44 - Katie's Story - In Memory of Baby Kooper - Part Two - Rainbow Baby
In this two-part podcast, Katie shares her experience of being 24 weeks pregnant and feeling intense pain. That pain and concern led her to labor and delivery. The birth experience was traumatic, emotional and put Katie into shock. She then delivered Kooper at 24 weeks. This then lead to a long...
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Episode 44 - Katie's Story - In Memory of Baby Kooper - Part One
In this two-part podcast, Katie shares her experience of being 24 weeks pregnant and feeling intense pain. That pain and concern led her to labor and delivery. The birth experience was traumatic, emotional and put Katie into shock. She then delivered Kooper at 24 weeks. This then lead to a long...
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Episode 43 - Dr. Allyce K Jones - What to Expect at Your Mental Health Visit
Dr. Jones is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner specializing in women’s mental health. Her clinic, Felicity Women's Center, is located in South Jordan, Utah. However, she offers telemed services as well. She provides specialty psychiatric care to women who are planning to conceive,...
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Episode 42 - Nikki's Story - You Don't Have to Keep Suffering Like This
Nikki experienced some postpartum depression symptoms after her 3rd pregnancy. She felt a heavy load, and so much anger. After her family stepped in and mentioned their concern for her, she sought help. She felt so much anxiety that she wasn't enough, and was failing. Throughout her healing…
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Episode 41 - Shelsie's Story - Postpartum Anxiety, Anger & Constant Health Struggles for Liam
Shelsie experienced a traumatic yet quick birth for her second born, Liam. After countless health struggles, and feeling like the doctors weren't taking them seriously, she came to a space of anger and resentment. Shelsie recognized it wasn't normal for her to be feeling that way, and went to her...
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Episode 40 - Mom Genes Fight PPD - Stopping Postpartum Depression Starts Here
Mom Genes Fight PPD is a research study developed by Postpartum Depression: Action Towards Causes and Treatment (PACT) Consortium, an international group of academic clinicians and scientists committed to understanding the interaction of genes and environment to predict which women are at risk of...
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Episode 39 - Lindsay Aerts - You Can Still Love Your Children and Not Love Motherhood
Lindsay, the host of the KSL Mom Show, shares her story of motherhood in such a bold way. From her experience with postpartum anxiety and OCD to intrusive thoughts. Linsday felt like she was going crazy. What she expected motherhood to be like was the total opposite of what she experienced. We...
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Episode 38 - Karla's Story - Open the Door to Everyone Who Wants to Help You
Karla experienced a rough go when she became a mom. With a previous history of anxiety, her emotions were on full blown survival mode. Karla began to have intrusive thoughts that scared her, and then brought her to a place of feeling so much shame. After being so sleep deprived, emotions and all…
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Episode 37 - Alli’s Story - Ectopic Pregnancy - You Know Your Body - Trust it
Allison tells her experience with having an ectopic pregnancy with her second pregnancy. She talks about how she knew something was wrong in the beginning. How she wishes she would have pushed harder to find out what was going on, instead of trusting the typical doctor visits. She encourages moms...
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Episode 36 - Stephanie & Jesse's Story - Recurrent Pregnancy Loss & the Faith to Keep Going
Stephanie and her husband Jesse joined us to share their story about recurrent pregnancy loss. Stephanie talks about how people don't speak up enough on this topic. She feels that miscarriage is kept quiet because "I wasn't that far along". She wants to let women know that it is still a loss, no...
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Episode 35 - Melissa's Story - At-Home Birth & Healing From the Aftermath
Melissa did just about everything to prepare for an at-home birth. From hypno-birth classes, meditations, etc. She was surrounded by an RN, Doula and Midwife while she delivered her daughter, Lydia, at home. The baby was wrapped in the umbilical cord - which led to a very traumatic birth and the...
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Episode 34 - Melanie's Story - Miscarriage & Medication Stigmas
Melanie experienced a massive change going from one child to two. She had extreme depression, and realized she could not go through this on her own. Melanie was told by a friend that it was just as important to take medication for depression, as it is for diabetes. She learned that day how...
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Episode 33 - Danielle's Story - The Unfamiliar Mom Academy
We are SO happy to have been able to podcast with Danielle! She has been a huge support for so many women on her social media page as well as her Unfamiliar Mom Academy course. She started The Unfamiliar Mom Academy because when she had her first baby - she was shocked! No one told her how hard…
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Episode 32- Neena's Story - A True Warrior
Just over five years ago, Neena was pregnant with her first child, Indira. At 37 weeks, she noticed her daughter wasn't moving as much. Something didn't feel right. She went into labor and delivery, and they could not find a heartbeat. She then delivered her daughter, and a world of trauma...
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Episode 31 - Krista's Story - Multiples, NICU Babies & How to Support Her Through It
Krista has two sets of twins, and a five year old. After giving birth to her last set of twins, she has learned more than she ever wanted to about the trails of having NICU babies. Krista shares about the birth story, struggles of balancing life at the NICU for months - and having three children...
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Episode 30 - Kim's Story - I Want to Share My Sister's Story
Kim's sister Mindy struggled with extreme postpartum psychosis, and seeing her sister struggle has changed her forever . Kim shares the story of how her sister did the best she could to fight through it. After many struggles, traumatic events and so much more, Mindy took her own life on December…
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Episode 29 - Amanda's Story - Mighty Milo - The Heartache of Infant Loss
In the middle of her grieving, Amanda reached out to us wanting to share her story for all the moms out there who need to hear from someone going through it right this moment. Rather than later, after some healing and time. Amanda was just 24 weeks pregnant when she went into pre-term labor. Milo...
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Episode 28 - Jessica's Story - Postpartum Depression, Miscarriage & Secondary Infertility
Jessica is a mom of three and has been through many trials to get her little family here. She opens up about how her depression started before her first daughter was born, when she found out that she was breech and wouldn't be able to deliver as planned. She struggled through the first year of…
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Episode 27 - Brooke and Justin - You Just Have to Make it Through
Brooke and Justin have faced so much adversity during their years of having babies. Job loss, anxiety, living with Brooke's parents, hospitalizing their newborn, breastfeeding struggles and more. They both experienced anxiety and depression as a result of the crazy whirlwind of becoming parents....
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Episode 26 - Courtney's Story - Something's Gotta Give
After an emergency c-section, Courtney experienced extreme sadness. She didn't feel like taking care of her son, or doing anything at all. Her son, Cael, had multiple health problems and surgeries. After all of this, Courtney and her husband decided to try for a second child. For the last several...
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Episode 25 - Lena & Brigham - If You Love Me, Don't Let Go. It Will Get Better.
Lena and Brigham share with us their journey together through postpartum anxiety/depression. It took Lena almost 6 years to seek help for her depression. Lena talks about how she didn't seek help because of her fears of having her baby taken away, or judgement. Or the doctors not believing her....
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Episode 24 - Kate Arquilla with Bumble Baby
Kate is a mama of two, NICU RN, certified CPR instructor, breastfeeding counselor +certified sleep consultant- a "mom coach" dedicated to making the road to motherhood a bit smoother. She combines her expertise in these areas + her experience as a breastfeeding and supplementing mom to best…
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Episode 23 - Tara's Story - Don't Be Afraid to Feel
Tara, mother of 6 children, takes us on her journey through postpartum depression. So many hard trials happening consecutively caused her to spiral into a dark place. She talks about losing her parents, grieving their loss, unemployment, loss of a 20 week old baby, health problems and friendships...
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Episode 22 - Jessie's Story - Healing After Experiencing a Stillbirth
After a devastating loss of her son Keith, at 22 weeks, Jessie struggled to move on. Jessie is candid about how difficult it was to leave the hospital with no baby. In the thick of grief, Jessie finds strength to continue growing her family. One year after the loss of her son, she had a newborn....
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Episode 21 - Rachel's Story - The Sun is Going to Come Out Again
Rachel is a mother of six, who experienced postpartum depression and suicidal thoughts. In this episode she shares with us how support from her family and taking medication helped her through the struggle. With her children ranging in age from 18 years to 6 months she is savoring her youngest…
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Episode 20 - The Postpartum Revolution - Doula's Making a Difference
The Postpartum Revolution founders, JaTem & Jazmin, met while at a Doula training and the rest is history! They are determined to educate new moms, and all of her tribe, on how to navigate postpartum life. The two of them have created The Postpartum Revolution conference, which will happen in...
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Episode 19 - Sam's Story - It's OK To Do It Your Way
In this episode, Sam talks about how the overwhelming life change of having her baby rocked her. We talk about everything from her birth experience to feeding her baby to going back to work. Sam shares how deciding to stop breastfeeding was the best decision she ever made for her family. It…
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Episode 18 - Kelsie's Story - Just Talk to Someone
Kelsie suffered from postpartum depression and anxiety with all three of her daughters. She shares how the guilt and shame she felt from her anger led to self hate, and intrusive/suicidal thoughts. She found support through friendships in her community and healing through finally opening up to…
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Episode 17 - Leesa's Story - From The Outside Looking In. How Did I Miss This?
We got to sit down with Leesa, our host Leslee's mom and best friend. Leesa shares her side of Leslee's postpartum experience. Leesa and Leslee have been very close all of her life. Yet, when it came time for PPD to hit, neither of them noticed. How did we both miss it? And how did Leslee hide it...
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Episode 16 - Whitney's Story - Your Family Needs You. No One Can Replace You!
In this podcast, Whitney shares her journey of struggling to find her space of being a stay at home mom and adjusting to two children. She is a busy-body and had a lot of resentment when her second child came along for "taking away her freedom". She then realized she has postpartum depression and...
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Episode 15 - What We've Learned So Far
We just had a quick chat about what we have learned so far through producing this podcast. We are so grateful for all of the brave women who have been vulnerable and opened up and shared their experience with us.
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Episode 14 - Laura Parry - LCSW - Maternal Mental Health Therapist
Laura Parry has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for several years. She started at an agency that specialized in Maternal Mental Health and then went on to open her own private practice. She works with both mothers and fathers in guiding them through their postpartum journey. Maternal…
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Episode 13 - Andrea's Story - Just Breathe
Andrea always wanted to be a mom. She worked so hard to build her family even though she faced some scary challenges along the way. Andrea shares with us her journey through Postpartum Anxiety, while also battling some debilitating health problems and chronic illness. She has found help and…
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Episode 12 - Brooklyn's Story - You Can Do Hard Things
Brooklyn shares a very vulnerable story about intrusive thoughts, severe anxiety, traumatic childbirth, a faith crisis and doing all of the research she can to figure PPD out. Through some of that research Brooklyn found out changing her diet and finding ways to provide self care, were crucial to...
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Episode 11 - Joanna's Story - Twins and Taking Care of Yourself
Joanna is a nurse who shares her story of moving out of the country the same day that she found out she was pregnant with twins. Her husband was attending medical school and they were living in the Caribbean with outdated healthcare, no family and extreme living conditions. She found her OCD...
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Episode 10 - JorDan's Story - Navigating Asperger's and Postpartum
After a rushed C-Section birth, neglected hospital care and a frustrating first 6 months with her pediatrician, JorDan learned to stand up for herself and advocate for her baby. She shares about her son's Asperger's diagnosis and how she navigated her way through finding the best care for him,...
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Episode 9 - Brook Dorff - PSI Utah Maternal Mental Health Specialist
Brook Dorff is PSI Utah's Maternal Mental Health Specialist. She shares statistics about maternal mental health, misconceptions related to postpartum depression/maternal mental health mood disorders, surprising stats about who is at risk for mood disorders and when. Brook is an activist for...
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Episode 8 - Mary's Story - 17 Years Later, It's Time to Heal
Fifteen years after the birth of her 4th child, Mary finally sought the therapy and help that she needed to take care of herself. She shares about divorce and losing children and how that effected her mental health. She tells us the practices that she continues to do to stay healthy.
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Episode 7 - Toni's Story - NICU Baby and Mom Guilt
Toni shares with us her experience with have a premature emergency C-Section which left her baby in the NICU for several weeks. She shares the struggles of blaming herself, guilt associated to things that were out of her control and the anger that came from it. This is the first time Toni has...
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Episode 6 - Ashlyn's Story - From Euphoria to the Darkness
Ashlyn talks about how her postpartum got more intense with each child. It came to a head with her last child. Her brave story details postpartum psychosis and the saving grace of letting friends, family and even sometimes strangers assist her along her healing journey.
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Maternal Mental Health looks different for everyone. Honestly, if one mom out there feels peace from these stories... our purpose here has been met. You are not alone. Please seek and accept any healthy support you can. This is not your forever, you will make it out of this!!! Postpartum Support Hotline 1.800.944.4773 PPD Survey - https://forms.gle/kMT3rcG6qp8ozzVk7
HOSTED BY
Leslee & Lindsey & Brave Voices
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Maternal Mental Health looks different for everyone. Honestly, if one mom out there feels peace from these stories... our purpose here has been met. You are not alone. Please seek and accept any healthy support you can. This is not your forever, you will make it out of this!!! Postpartum Support...
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