Quiet Connection - Perinatal 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
Content Warning: This episode includes discussions of postpartum psychosis, severe PMHDS, suicidal ideation, medical trauma, and high-profile legal cases involving harm to children.
In this episode of Quiet Confessions, Chelsea is joined by their husband, Ben, for an intimate look at the reality of perinatal mental health disorders (PMHDS) and the systemic gaps in care. Sparked by recent high-profile headlines surrou...
When you’re a high-achieving attorney and licensed therapist, you think you’ve got the research and prep work handled. But as guest Paula Yost discovered, pregnancy and parenting don’t care about your schedules or degree titles.
In this episode, Paula shares her journey through two high-risk pregnancies, a sudden bilateral cleft lip and palate diagnosis, premature menopause at 34, and a terrifying b...
What happens when bringing a new life into the world triggers a complete break from reality, leaving you isolated in a system that wasn't built to give you the care you need?
In this episode of Quiet Connection, Chelsea sits down with registered nurse, mother, and advocate Sarah Savage. Sarah shares her story of an emergency premature birth, a sudden cord prolapse, and the chaotic descent into mania and postpartum ps...
When Cat Carnell walked into her ten-week ultrasound expecting to hear a heartbeat, she was met with two words that shattered her world: "I'm sorry." What followed was a confusing, painful, and deeply isolating journey through a missed miscarriage—a type of pregnancy loss where the body continues to hold onto the pregnancy without showing typical signs of loss.
In this episode of Quiet Connection, Cat opens up ...
When you envision bringing a child into the world, nobody prepares you for the possibility of walking through the double doors of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The flashing lights, the constant hum of monitors, and the physical barrier of an isolette can leave birthing and perinatal individuals feeling isolated, helpless, and completely detached from the experience they imagined.
In this episode of Quiet Connection...
In this episode of Quiet Connection, host Chelsea Myers sits down with Hilary Hodge, author of the upcoming book The Art of Parenting While Sick. Living in the beautiful Loire Valley of France, Hilary navigates the daily, often invisible grind of severe asthma and adrenal insufficiency while raising her five-year-old son.
Chelsea and Hilary dive deep into the unique realities of being a perinatal individual with a ch...
In this episode of Quiet Confessions, Chelsea takes a step back from personal musings to focus on advocacy and education surrounding perinatal mental health disorders (PMHDS). Recording from their late grandmother’s house, Chelsea reflects on channeling their hero's legacy to make others feel seen, loved, and valued.
Chelsea explains the range of PMHDS, covering topics like perinatal depression, anxiety, panic ...
In this episode of Quiet Connection, Chelsea sits down with Jessica Hill, co-founder of The Parent Collective. Jessica opens up about her transition into motherhood while living overseas in London, where an unexpected medical scare with her newborn sparked a season of hypervigilance and postpartum anxiety.
We talk about the raw grief of adding a second child, the stark differences between maternal care systems ...
With the Lindsay Clancy trial dominating headlines right now, the media is full of sensationalized coverage that instills fear and demonizes birthing individuals in crisis. But sensationalism doesn't save lives; truth, proper medical training, and early intervention do.
In this episode of Quiet Confessions, I'm stepping away from our scheduled series to address the reality of postpartum psychosis (PPP).
I share ...
What happens when the vision you have for your birth completely shatters?
In this episode of Quiet Connection, host Chelsea Myers sits down with Lainey Stancil—a mom, birth doula, and the founder of the Peach State Birth Coalition. Lainey shares her deeply personal journey of navigating a frustrating PCOS diagnosis , fighting a dismissive healthcare system , and making the radical choice to switch to an u...
In this deeply moving episode of Quiet Connection, Chelsea sits down with Adriana Sanchez, a stay-at-home mom and college student who shares her raw journey through two high-risk pregnancies, consecutive NICU stays, and severe postpartum mental health crises.
Adriana opens up about how her "go with the flow" life shifted dramatically when her first baby arrived prematurely at 32 weeks. When her second pregnancy was c...
Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions of medical trauma, postpartum hemorrhage, psychiatric hospitalizations, and suicidal ideation. Please protect your mental health while listening.
Welcome back to Quiet Confessions, a mini-episode of Quiet Connection where I sit down to chat one-on-one with you about my personal journey.
In honor of Birth Trauma Awareness Week, I'm re-airing a deeply personal ...
Have you ever felt like you should have it all figured out, only to find yourself crying on the bathroom floor?
In this episode of Quiet Connection, I'm sitting down with the wonderful Leah Wright. She's a licensed clinical social worker, certified perinatal mental health therapist, and a mom of Irish twins.
Even with a career dedicated to mental health, Leah found herself completely blindsided by the realities of pos...
In this solo mini-episode, I'm letting down the veil and sharing a very raw look at how postpartum PTSD still shows up in my life today.
This past weekend, our family celebrated the arrival of my new nephew. While I made a conscious choice to stay present and fully embrace this journey with my sister-in-law, holding that sweet, fresh newborn ended up opening a floodgate of unexpected emotions.
I'm opening up abo...
What happens when your mental health journey starts long before you ever consider becoming a parent? In this episode of Quiet Connection, host Chelsea Myers sits down with author and mental health advocate Sarah Michelle Sherman. Sarah opens up completely about living with Bipolar 2 disorder and ADHD, and how those diagnoses shaped her path to motherhood.
From the terrifying reality of early pregnancy loss to the ago...
If you're feeling stuck, frozen, or like everything around you is chaotic right now, you're not alone.
In this week’s Quiet Confession, I’m diving deep into a raw and rarely discussed side of postpartum PTSD: the "mundane" triggers that blindside us in everyday life.
Four years into my healing journey, I'm opening up about how my favorite comfort shows—like Friends and the Great British Bake Of...
What happens when a high-achieving, structured project manager is completely stripped of control by motherhood? In this deeply moving episode of Quiet Connection, host Chelsea Myers sits down with Kanika, an engineering professional and MBA graduate turned Energy Coach. Kanika opens up about her intense transition into parenthood, navigating the early judgments of breastfeeding, and her son’s sudden medical an...
What happens when the Pinterest-perfect vision you had of motherhood clashes with a chaotic reality?
In this candid episode of Quiet Connection, I’m connecting with Stephanie, a mother of two and the founder of Connection Therapy Clinic. Stephanie shares her whirlwind transition into parenting, from a chaotic emergency room diagnosis story to navigating the everyday complexities of raising an autistic chi...
Trigger Warning: This episode contains detailed descriptions of medical trauma, panic attacks, and postpartum hemorrhage flashbacks. Please practice self-care while listening.
In this episode of Quiet Confessions, host Chelsea Myers pulls back the curtain on a topic that many experience but few feel safe enough to speak about: postpartum PTSD.
Following a traumatic birth and severe postpartum hemorrhage with the...
When personal drive hits the barrier of unexplained infertility, how do you pivot?
In this Quiet Connection episode, Chelsea joins Rachel Fulginiti, voice actor and host of From Foster 2 Forever podcast. Rachel discusses the agony of fertility struggles, pregnancy loss, and a life-altering heterotopic pregnancy.
Beyond trauma, Rachel details her mindset shift from failed IVF debt to the foster care system. Highl...
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