What do you do when motherhood feels difficult—when it doesn’t come as naturally as you anticipated? This episode was impressed by sincere conversations in my prenatal yoga lessons, the place some college students shared fears about coming into parenthood. One even admitted, “I don’t know if I’m very maternal.” That vulnerability struck a chord, and I knew we wanted to discover it additional.
On this episode of Yoga | Start | Infants, I sit down once more with Paige Bellenbaum, LCSW of The Motherhood Middle, for a deep and heartfelt dialog. We discuss concerning the emotional complexities of changing into a dad or mum, particularly when expectations and actuality don’t align. We dive into the guilt, disgrace, and comparability that may come up throughout this transition—and the way analyzing your individual values can assist form a extra genuine and supported expertise of parenthood.
This episode is a must-listen for anybody navigating, supporting, or anticipating the emotional journey into motherhood.
On this episode, you’ll study:
- About Paige and what led her to specializing in the perinatal neighborhood
- How you can help somebody whose actuality of motherhood is completely different than what they anticipated
- What to do when the shift to motherhood doesn’t really feel pure
- Methods to cease the spiral of comparability that will occur between new mothers
- How moms can begin to determine their very own strengths and values that they carry to their distinctive expertise of motherhood
- How you can slowly construct confidence in mothering
- Some indicators it might be time to succeed in out for assist
- One closing tip or piece of recommendation Paige wish to provide new and expectant mother and father
- The place you’ll find her work
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About Paige:
Paige Bellenbaum, LCSW is the Founding Director and Chief Exterior Relations Officer at The Motherhood Middle of New York. Paige attended UCLA as an undergraduate and acquired her MSW from the Columbia College of Social Work. For 20 years, Paige labored within the non-profit sector, holding senior management positions at Hamilton Household Middle Homeless Shelter, The Partnership for the Homeless, Habitat for Humanity, and Settlement Housing Fund. She has labored within the area of public coverage, advocacy, neighborhood organizing, and direct apply with deprived communities together with homeless households and incarcerated younger adults. She has held a number of appointed and elected political positions together with the District Chief of Brooklyn’s 52nd Meeting District.
After her first little one was born, Paige suffered from extreme postpartum melancholy and nervousness that just about ended her life. Nevertheless, as soon as she started to heal, she grew to become dedicated to preventing for PMAD training, screening, and therapy in order that no extra ladies must endure silently. She drafted laws in New York State championed by State Senator Liz Krueger, mandating hospitals to offer training on PMADs and strongly encouraging screening of all new and anticipating moms. This invoice was signed into legislation in 2014. She has continued to be an outspoken maternal psychological well being advocate and clinician and makes use of her story as a software for change.
Paige works carefully with a number of New York Metropolis companies on maternal psychological well being finest practices and insurance policies, together with the NYPD, DOHMH’s Maternal Hospital High quality Enchancment Community, the Nurse-Household Partnership, and the Administration for Youngsters’s Companies. She was a member of the NYC Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Overview Committee and at present sits on the NYS Maternal Psychological Well being Working Group. She has appeared on the At the moment Present, Good Morning America, NPR, PBS Newshour, Fortune, The New York Occasions, and The Wall Road Journal.
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Instagram: @themotherhoodcenter
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