Takeaway: It’s not easy to get a clear understanding of your mom anxiety. Why? Anxiety and the sister emotions of stress, burnout, anger, rage, and overwhelm are so common that many moms question their mental health symptoms. Even medical providers get confused. As a result, many moms don’t get the support they need in motherhood. Learn all about Dr. Julie’s crash course that’s designed to help moms understand their anxiety & advocate for the care they need to feel better.

Are you stressed out, burned out, or dealing with postpartum rage?

Are you losing sleep at night because you feel guilty about that thing you did when you lost your temper with your kids?

Or maybe you’ve noticed that you’re crying a lot.

If any of these experiences describe you, you might be living with mom anxiety.

Anxiety is different for every mom, but most moms (and medical providers) don’t know this. Instead, you have an idea of what anxiety looks like in your mind, and when your experience doesn’t fit that mold, you write your experience off as being a normal part of motherhood. But what if it’s not? What if you actually are living with mom anxiety?

Learning about what mom anxiety actually is and understanding the way anxiety shows up in your mind, body, and self-perspective is important. Armed with this knowledge, you will be able to advocate for yourself and get the kind of support you need to thrive. And we have just the ticket to get this knowledge: Dr. Julie’s Is it Anxiety or is it Just Motherhood? Workshop.

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Anxiety is a Confusing Experience for Moms

Anxiety has become synonymous with motherhood for many modern mothers.

Every mom experiences anxiety in some way (every human actually). It’s an important part of staying safe and recognizing danger. Ideally, heart-stopping anxiety is an uncommon experience that signals you to an immediate danger or cues you in to a sister emotion like overwhelm or burnout. But for modern moms, anxiety has become the norm - something that is so expected that moms might not even realize that it’s a problem.

Mom Stress is Normalized by Social Messaging

The expectations that society places on modern mothers are completely unsustainable, although I probably don’t need to tell you that. Moms are expected to fill so many roles; you are asked to be the primary caregiver, to manage the mental load of caring for the household and meeting your family’s needs, to work outside of the home as if you don’t have children (if you’re working), and to keep a roaring social circle while you’re at it. Social messaging makes you believe that you should be able to live exactly the same way as you did before children, plus take care of your child. It’s no wonder motherhood is not what you expected.

The worst part of this social messaging is that moms completely wear themselves out in the name of living up to social expectations. Moms believe that feeling exhausted, burned out, stressed out, tapped out, and depleted is normal. I’m here to remind you that it’s not.

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Why Moms Need to Learn About Anxiety

There is No Screening Tool for Postpartum or Maternal Anxiety

As a part of normal medical care, women are screened for symptoms of depression and generalized anxiety. This is especially true of women who are going through fertility treatment, pregnant, or in the postpartum period. However, many women are surprised to learn that there is not a screening for Postpartum Anxiety (PPA) like there is for Postpartum Depression (PPD). Likewise, there is no specific screening for maternal anxiety. As a result, many women are not taken seriously by their medical providers and believe that their struggles are “normal” parts of motherhood when they are actually anxiety.

There is a Shortage of Perinatal Mental Health Therapists (AKA Therapists for Moms)

As a therapist for moms and a mom who utilizes mom’s mental health care, I have been aware of the shortage of therapists for moms for some time. Yet even I was alarmed by the statistics: 96% of women live in maternal mental health professional shortage areas. This means that only 4% of mothers have access to the a specialist who is trained to recognize maternal anxiety. As a result, many moms suffer from anxiety without the expert care they deserve.

Anxiety often Presents as a Sister Emotion: Stress, Burnout, Anger, and Overwhelm

Why is Postpartum Anxiety (PPA) so difficult to recognize? And why is Maternal Anxiety such an overlooked issue? Part of the reason is that moms are influenced by the social messaging I discussed above, and so you may write-off problems with sleeping, eating, or coping with the stress as “normal” parts of motherhood. The other reason is that maternal anxiety doesn’t always show up as worry, panic or fear. It can also look like burnout, anger, postpartum rage, physical pain in the body, stress, or a sense of being overwhelmed. As a result, you have no idea that you’re actually struggling with anxiety.

Education Empowers Mothers to Advocate for Mental Health Support

I wish every mom could meet with an expert who is trained in perinatal mental health as a part of her motherhood journey. In my opinion, this would help mothers get the support they need with their anxiety & allow mothers to thrive in motherhood.Because this is unattainable for most moms, I am bringing the education to you in my Is it Anxiety or is Just Motherhood? Workshop. After completing this workshop, you’ll be armed with the knowledge you need to advocate for your maternal mental health needs.

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Get Ready to Learn About Your Mom Anxiety From a Perinatal Mental Health Therapist

This LIVE online workshop offers a holistic, supportive approach to learning about mom anxiety, uncovering the specific ways anxiety shows up in your daily life, and then explores both traditional & alternative approaches to mom’s mental healthcare. It’s complete with forever access to the replay, additional resources, and a beautiful interactive guidebook to keep forever!

What You’ll Learn in the Is it Anxiety or Is it Just Motherhood? Workshop

This Is it Anxiety or Is it Motherhood? Workshop educates and empower moms to uncover their personal anxiety story & arms moms with the knowledge they need to access mental health support resources for mom anxiety. This workshop is for you if:

You want to learn about mom anxiety & the way it relates to feeling burned out, stressed out, tapped out, or angry from Dr. Julie, an expert in mom’s mental healthcare.
You want a comprehensive understanding of your personal experience with mom anxiety + its sister emotions.
You spoke to your medical provider about your struggles and it was written off as “normal” but you disagree.
You are ready to advocate for your mental health needs & want the tools to do it.
You’re looking for guidance about the different medical and non-medical treatment options for anxiety + which option is best for your unique situation.

What’s Included?

In this 90-minute workshop, you’ll learn everything you need to know about mom anxiety and its sister emotions of stress, burnout, anger, rage, and general overwhelm. This workshop is geared towards women who identify as mothers & who are actively involved in caring for their children. Dr. Julie will talk about perinatal, postpartum, and maternal anxiety. There will also be time for Q&A.

The workshop meets via Zoom and content is provided via a slide deck for visual learners to follow along as Dr. Julie presents. You will be provided with a copy of the slides + a recording of the workshop when it is over so you can rewatch the workshop at your own pace. You’ll see content on:

Why moms are so vulnerable to anxiety
The difference between anxiety & normal mom stress
The ways anxiety shows up in your mind and body
Why anxiety is different for every mother
How anxiety looks like as burnout, stress, anger, postpartum rage, and/or general overwhelm
Scripts to help you explain your experience with anxiety
Traditional medical care options for anxiety
Holistic and alternative care options for anxiety
Tips for accessing mental health support

And so much more!

You’ll also receive a beautiful 16-page guide called Getting Specific About Your Mom Anxiety with the important information from the workshop plus checklists, visual maps, cheat sheets, and must have products and books to help you advocate for yourself & dive in to your journey towards anxiety relief.

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“Is it Anxiety or is it Just Motherhood?”A Workshop to Empower Moms