In this episode, I sit down with poet and storyteller Taylor Rae Roman for a conversation about the quiet, disorienting grief underneath early motherhood...the experience of waking up in a new body, a new mind, a new identity, and never really getting to say goodbye to the woman you were before.

This one's for the mom who loves her baby AND is barely hanging on. For the one who had the "perfect" birth and still whispers I hate my life into the 3am dark...then feels like a monster for it. For the mom who hasn't turned on music in the car in MONTHS because one more sound might crack her open.

We talk about:

• Grieving the woman you were before
• Why "perfect" feels like drowning
• The sensory overload no one warns you about
• Postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety
• Seeing yourself in your baby's eyes
• Why none of it (the hard OR the beautiful) is forever
• The poem that says it all

If you take one thing from this episode, let it be Taylor's message to the mom listening right now: you are not crazy. This is as hard as you think it is. You are not alone. And you deserve support...like, yesterday.

You can connect with Taylor at https://taylorraeroman.com and follow her on social media @taylorraeroman.

To learn more about my book Mom Needs a Moment or my California/New York private practice visit https://www.drcassidymft.com