Quiet Connection - Postpartum Mental Health
Hosted by Chelsea Myers: Quiet Connection is a podcast where parents and caregivers share their experiences with PMADS, traumatic birth, fertility struggles, pregnancy/infant loss, and more without fear of judgment or criticism. Let's normalize the conversation and end the stigma! You are not alone. I see you. Want to be a guest on Quiet Connection - Postpartum Mental Health? Send Chelsea a message on PodMatch: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/quietconnectionpodcast
Episodes
In this episode of Quiet Confessions, Chelsea shares their story of surviving postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, suicidal ideation, and the long road through psychiatric hospitalizations and misdiagnoses. With raw honesty, Chelsea reveals the toll of stigma, the failures of the healthcare system, and the terrifying weight of intrusive thoughts—while also highlighting the resilience, healing, and glimmers of hope t...
⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode discusses intrusive thoughts, suicidal ideation, and homicidal ideation related to postpartum psychosis. Please take care while listening.
In this deeply vulnerable and powerful episode, Chelsea sits down with author and advocate Aaisha Alvi to talk about her lived experience with postpartum psychosis—not once, but twice. Aaisha opens up about the terrifying symptoms she faced, how medi...
Parenting toddlers isn’t for the faint of heart. In this week’s Quiet Confessions, Chelsea shares a brutally honest look at surviving a morning of total toddler chaos after her three-year-old’s 4 a.m. wake-up call. From trying every trick in the toolbox to realizing that sometimes nothing works, this episode is for every parent who’s been tested by meltdowns, exhaustion, and the relentlessness of life with little ones...
After multiple miscarriages and years of navigating fibroids, irregular cycles, and unanswered questions, fertility coach Heather Kish found the path to motherhood—and to her calling. In this heartfelt conversation, Heather shares her journey through loss, the emotional toll of infertility, and how one chromosomally normal embryo changed everything.
From working in IT security to coaching women on nutrition, hormone he...
In this week’s Quiet Confessions, Chelsea opens up about something raw and complicated: feeling angry at their body. From the exhaustion of living with chronic illness to the jealousy and worry stirred by the wave of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, Chelsea shares the messy reality of holding multiple emotions at once — envy, joy, grief, and genuine happiness for others.
This episode is an honest l...
“Even when your body feels like it’s betraying you, you are not broken.”
In this powerful episode of Quiet Connection, host Chelsea Myers sits down with Sarah Caminiti, who opens up about her deeply personal six-year journey to parenthood.
From an early PCOS diagnosis to unexplained infertility, miscarriages, IVF, and the emotional toll of feeling like a “shell” of herself, Sarah shares the raw truth about what it’s li...
In this week’s Quiet Confessions, Chelsea gets candid about the updated Disability Access Service (DAS) policy at Disney World — and why it feels dehumanizing, exhausting, and disrespectful to the disabled community.
As they prepare for a surprise trip for their daughter’s 10th birthday, Chelsea shares both the frustration of being denied DAS access and the unexpected gratitude for the cast member who went above and be...
When life doesn’t follow the script we wrote, how do we find the strength to keep going?
In this heartfelt conversation, Tianna Trinidad — PCOS warrior, entrepreneur, and mother — shares her deeply personal journey through pregnancy loss, postpartum struggles, and the profound transformation of motherhood.
From navigating grief to building Love Served Warm, a business dedicated to helping women reclaim their health an...
In this week’s Quiet Confessions, Chelsea shares the raw reality of navigating hospital visits that reopen old wounds. From the dysregulation of lab work and MRIs, to the panic of walking familiar halls, to the choice to slow down and decompress instead of bulldozing through — this episode is a reminder that scars live in our bodies long after the moment has passed.
With honesty, vulnerability, and a little humor (yes,...
Tiff Carson never imagined her path to motherhood would involve Petri dishes, hormone chaos, and a closet breakdown that changed everything.
In this episode, Tiff shares her deeply personal journey through infertility, multiple rounds of IVF, postpartum mental health challenges, and parenting neurodivergent children. From the heartbreak of failed embryo transfers to the surprise of twin boys and the overwhelming reali...
In this week’s Quiet Confessions, Chelsea reflects on the unexpected connections that have grown out of the podcast — friendships that started in DMs and have become daily lifelines.
They share the gratitude and disbelief of reaching 100 episodes and closing in on 7,500 downloads, and introduce listeners to fellow Vermont parenting podcasters, Pondering Parenthood.
The episode then shifts to back-to-school season: the ...
In this deeply honest and emotionally resonant episode of Quiet Connection, Chelsea sits down with Amanda Curry, a physical therapist turned somatic healing guide, to explore her transformational journey through motherhood, postpartum mental health, and the powerful awakening that came through inner child work and breathwork.
Amanda opens up about her struggles with postpartum rage, the shame of feeling disconnected, ...
Parents aren’t “supposed” to get mad—at least, that’s the unspoken rule many of us have been taught since childhood. But in this episode of Quiet Confessions, Chelsea gets real about anger: what it’s telling us, why it’s not the enemy, and how they’re learning to let it exist without shame.
From blow-drying their hair and throwing their back out to navigating chronic health struggles, Chelsea shares how the smallest ti...
In this deeply moving episode of Quiet Connection, I’m connecting with Ashlee King, a mother whose path into parenthood was anything but smooth. Ashlee shares her harrowing journey through hyperemesis gravidarum, preeclampsia, HELLP syndrome, a traumatic emergency C-section, and multiple postpartum hemorrhages. Her daughter’s NICU stay was only the beginning of a long road of emotional and physical healing.
Ashlee’s vu...
Life can feel like it’s on fire—grief, parenting, health struggles, new routines, and the chaos of a preschooler starting school. In this episode of Quiet Confessions, Chelsea leans on a favorite DBT skill, What’s Not Wrong, to pull back from the spiral of everything going wrong and focus on small, grounding glimmers.
From celebrating their puppy’s progress to their kids finding joy at their grandmother’s funeral, to t...
What happens when the picture-perfect idea of parenthood collides with the messy, isolating, and overwhelming reality? This week on Quiet Connection, Chelsea talks with therapist and author Marissa Z, who opens up about her shocking and painful entry into motherhood, the lack of bonding, the screaming, the despair—and the moment she realized: maybe she didn’t have postpartum depression… maybe this was just that hard.
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Grief is hard. Parenting through grief? Even harder. In this raw Quiet Confessions episode, Chelsea opens up about navigating the loss of their grandmother while parenting two young kids in a neurodivergent household. From balancing honesty with protection, to preparing children for a Catholic funeral when you’re not religious, to simply surviving the days that feel too heavy—this episode is a reminder that there’s no...
When Jeaneen Tang became a mother, she didn’t expect an emergency C-section, postpartum challenges, or parenting mostly solo. But nothing could have prepared her for what came next.
At just 13 months old, her son Che suffered a traumatic brain injury after a short fall—an accident that not only changed his life but also launched Jeaneen into a devastating legal battle.
In this emotional and deeply moving episode, Jean...
In this week’s Quiet Confession, Chelsea shares a vulnerable update on their health and the wave of grief following the loss of their grandmother, their lifelong hero.
From learning that their pituitary gland is no longer functioning—and what that means for living with chronic illness—to navigating severe sleep apnea and constant medical appointments, Chelsea opens up about the frustration, fear, and exhaustion of lif...
What happens when your birth plan becomes a four-day ordeal of coercion, unmanaged pain, and medical gaslighting? In this deeply moving episode of Quiet Connection, host Chelsea sits down with Garrett, a mom, entrepreneur, and advocate, who shares her harrowing experience with birth trauma, the mental health fallout, and her ongoing battle with secondary infertility.
Garrett opens up about what it was like to be disreg...
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