Hey Doc!
What happens when the OB/GYN becomes a new mom and realizes everything she thought she knew about postpartum was incomplete?
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Candice Wood, an OB-GYN, perinatal mental health specialist, and mom of five, for a conversation that is tender, hilarious, and quietly radical.
Yes, she built a 2-day-a-week career while raising five kids under five. But what we really talk about is what happened after the babies came.
When she found herself:
- silently competing with her husband’s ex-wife
- breastfeeding through gritted teeth and unspoken anxiety
- resenting a partner she had trained to be helpless
- and quietly unraveling, while still doing everything “right” on paper
This episode is about the postpartum identity crisis no one prepares you for — and the healing that happens when you finally name what’s actually going on.
We talk about:
- Why resentment is often a sign you’ve buried a need
- The trap of trying to be both the best mother and the best martyr
- How her patients helped her see her own suffering
- And what it really takes to feel like a good mom (hint: it’s not perfection)
If you’ve ever found yourself doing it all — and quietly wondering why it still doesn’t feel like enough — this one will land deep.
🎧 Listen now — and forward it to the friend who needed this yesterday.
Dr. Candice Wood has spent the last 18 years providing comprehensive wellness, gynecologic, and obstetric care for women of all ages. Over the years, Dr Wood has watched her own patients struggle to achieve wellness while lacking sufficient focus on mental health. With shortening doctor visit times, only the bare minimum can be done during a typical wellness exam, excluding the opportunity for a woman’s most trusted care provider to assess her mental health – arguably the gateway to her overall health and wellness.
Likewise, during postpartum visits, Dr. Wood found that there is no time to help young mothers struggling with mental health issues. Finding another mental health provider to care for a patient with perinatal mood disorders, infertility, or fetal loss is equally challenging.
Following her passion and determined to make a difference, Dr. Wood obtained a certification in perinatal mood disorders, psychotherapy, and pharmacotherapy, and she started the Woman Made Well clinic with one
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