<description>&lt;p&gt;Rebecca Hartley-Woods, mental health advocate and doula, discusses her personal experience with perinatal mood disorders and her work founding a non-profit that sheds light on perinatal mood disorders that 1 in 7 moms experience. We talk about the gap between mental health professionals and maternal health professionals and why so many women fall through the cracks, never receiving help. She shares her own experience with postpartum depression, anxiety, PTSD and OCD. We also discuss antenatal depression, signs and symptoms, therapy, resources, as well as Rebecca's background as a public worker and current work as a doula. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show notes and portrait at: workingbirth.com/ep16&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Working Birth

Jillian Camisasca-Lopina

Ep 16: Mental Health Advocate & Doula Rebecca Hartley-Woods

AUG 24, 201636 MIN
Working Birth

Ep 16: Mental Health Advocate & Doula Rebecca Hartley-Woods

AUG 24, 201636 MIN

Description

Rebecca Hartley-Woods, mental health advocate and doula, discusses her personal experience with perinatal mood disorders and her work founding a non-profit that sheds light on perinatal mood disorders that 1 in 7 moms experience. We talk about the gap between mental health professionals and maternal health professionals and why so many women fall through the cracks, never receiving help. She shares her own experience with postpartum depression, anxiety, PTSD and OCD. We also discuss antenatal depression, signs and symptoms, therapy, resources, as well as Rebecca's background as a public worker and current work as a doula. 

Show notes and portrait at: workingbirth.com/ep16