NBC News Live with Morgan Radford and Vicky Nguyen interview Dr. Nicole Amoyal Pensak book RATTLED

Описание: ‪@nbcnewslivenow‬ Morgan Radford and Vicky Nguyen interview Clinical Psychologist and Author, Dr. Nicole Amoyal Pensak about her new book RATTLED, How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain.
Dr. Nikki Pensak wants every mom to thrive in early motherhood. She validates the real challenges and vulnerabilities that come with becoming a mother as well as the opportunity to take advantage of this incredible opportunity for transformation. She speaks about her personal experience with postpartum, the power of the mom brain, postpartum mental health planning, and the developmental stage of becoming a mother. She speaks candidly and covers mom guilt, mom shame, mom rage, baby bonding, matrescence, back to work transitions, and how to prepare your marriage for kids.
RATTLED was picked by Zibby Owens for her Official Summer Reading list. The book is perfect for new mothers and parents, and any mother, father, caregiver. Most new mothers bring their infants to the doctor but ignore any distressing feelings or sensations they might themselves have―that sense of being "rattled" at many moments throughout the day and night. In Rattled, Dr. Nicole Pensak shares her own experiences and those of her patients to help new mothers feel informed, validated, and guided through matrescence. After giving birth, a woman often feels like a completely different person. It may sound dramatic, but the rollercoaster of physical and psychological changes affects brain and body in a similar way that adolescence changes us. To compound that, many women hide these feelings, worrying that something is wrong with them.
Dr. Nicole Pensak is here to reassure us that being "rattled" is normal, and not at all surprising. After all, seismic changes in identity and emotion have occurred. Research shows that a woman's brain shifts in real, biological ways very quickly after giving birth. Many women become hypervigilant, for good reason: the brain is telling her to stay alert because she has a human to keep alive and safe. While these brainpower boosts can cause anxious feelings, they can also help to manage the distress and harness the advantages of the postpartum brain. In fact, this is a time of neuroplasticity, when the brain is more receptive to positive reinforcement.
Trained at Yale and Harvard and certified in perinatal mental health, Dr. Pensak provides practical and emotional support, helping to relieve the anxiety and pressure for perfection in motherhood and paving the way for a better beginning for families and babies. She discusses mental health treatment and the upside of therapy during this changing time, and offers accessible scientific information, relatable anecdotes, and strategies for self-care. The result is a reassuring and practical handbook that new mothers and their families will refer to time and again.

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