Navigating depression during pregnancy and postpartum, feeling your identity evolve, staying connected to oneself, delivering with COVID, and much, much more!!

Actress, comedian, writer and producer, Alison Whitney, chats with Celeste in a lively conversation around:

• 2:52 - 1st pregnancy and recognizing depression
• 7:30 - identity crisis within pregnancy
• 11:37 - sharing postpartum through support network
• 13:28 - healing through writing personal stories
• 16:47 - safety within your body & not blaming yourself
• 19:09 - meeting people where they are
• 21:22 - showing up for yourself
• 25:21 - giving yourself grace and "both and"
• 28:00 - presence & acceptance
• 33:40 - depression within pregnancy / loss of control and identify self
• 37:16 - being kind you yourself
• 39:35 - having mom friends
• 43:20 - combating the "shame nucleus"
• 44:51 - COVID birth story
• 54:39 - 80s power ballad

We appreciate you stopping by, and we have LOTS more to come, so stay tuned, every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcast!

SHOW NOTES ✨

The conversation definitely flows between these two! Check out more about Alison and her story and meaningful projects using the below links:

Alison Whitney Website

Shoutout LA - Meet Alison Whitney

Alison IG

Check out Alison's work at: IMDb

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Disenfranchised grief, postpartum after pregnancy loss, honoring the healing journey....and so much more!!

Registered associate marital and family therapist, MK Hurlbutt, discusses with Celeste in an honest conversation around:

• Experience with pegnancy & pregnancy loss [10:52]
• Healing through telling stories [15:42]
• Giving grief space to breath [18:37]
• Sharing in grief & loss with others [22:28]
• Emotional freedom teechnique [24:40]
• Loss of identity for loss postpartum [28:12]
• Linking grief with identity [32:23]
• Chinese parable for presence [35:15]

This episode does contain a conversation about pregnancy loss, so if that type of story feels uncomfortable to you today, honor where you are an we will see you next week! We appreciate you stopping by, and we have LOTS more to come, so stay tuned, every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcast!

SHOW NOTES ✨

We are SO excited to be releasing this episode! Big fans of MK over here!! Show her some love by checking out her links below:

MK Psychology Today

MK IG

And of course, the trilogy of Celeste's fav reads:

The Whole-Brain Child BOOK

No-Drama Discipline BOOK

Parenting from the Inside Out BOOK

Join Celeste and her weekly guests as we dive into the real, vulnerable, honest conversations of motherhood, pregnancy, and all things parenting!

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SHOW NOTES ✨

Hello Hello! And welcome back!

We are excited to officially kick-off our full-length episodes again!

It's been a minute! In this episode, we dive into what is feels like to be recording again, the process of learning how to tell complex stories, and how a conversation from an unreleased podcast episode helped ground Celeste during the birth of her second.

This episode does contain a conversation about an emergency delivery, so if that type of story feels uncomfortable to you today, honor where you are an we will see you next week! We appreciate you stopping by, and we have LOTS more to come, so stay tuned, every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcast!

Join Celeste and her weekly guests as we dive into the real, vulnerable, honest conversations of motherhood, pregnancy, and all things parenting!

THE SHOW 🎙️

Leave a rate and review on iTunes, Spotify, or even just word of mouth! It helps the show grow and be discovered, and we LOVE our community!

Follow WEEK BY WEEK on Instagram, @weekbyweekpodcast or our personal accounts for more related family content:

Celeste Busa IG

Dave Hill IG

Check out our playlist on YouTube

Browse our blog at weekbyweekpodcast.com

Contact us at weekbyweekshow@gmail.com

© 2022 Gumption Pictures

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