The Importance of Mental Health for Moms

The Motherhood & Money Show

Welcome back to another season of The Motherhood and Money Show!

It is so wonderful to be back with Season 2 of The Motherhood and Money Show! On today’s episode, I am talking about something that is incredibly important to me and a topic I would like to normalize even more: the importance of mental health as moms and women. As moms, we carry a lot and juggle a lot of hats. Here are a few reasons why that could be:

• Often the mental and emotional labor of the family falls on mom’s shoulders (The holidays is a really great example of this! See the video above).
• Postpartum depression and anxiety can affect 10-20 percent of new moms (and possibly even more when it goes undetected).
• Moms suffer burnout and exhaustion as they are often solidified as the default parent role. The pandemic highlighted this. Moms also tend to handle the bulk share of communication and organization in the family unit (scheduling doctors appointments, after school activities, schedules, meal planning, etc.). This is often know as emotional or invisible labor.
• Becoming a new mom can already be isolating, and over time mom’s can feel a lack of identity and question who they are aside from “just Mom.”
• As moms, we cannot pour from an empty cup, and checking in on our mental health is one of the best self-care practices we can do for ourselves and our family.

In this episode, we cover:

• Benefits of therapy (as outlined in this Healthline article)
• Bethany shares a brief part of her story and how she came to invest in her mental health through talk therapy
• Different levels of therapy to consider when looking into finding a therapist
• Ways to ensure you are finding the right therapist (including a mini-interview and sample questions to ask them)
• Affordable therapy options

For a complete detailed outline, please visit our website Season 2, Episode 1: The Importance of Mental Health for Moms