Anna Williamson on her anxiety disorder during pregnancy
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Anna Williamson has many strings to her bow. She’s an author, presenter, podcaster, life coach, counsellor, and mental health campaigner. She is also mum to two children and our guest on this week’s episode!
Anna opens up to Gi about her perinatal and postnatal anxiety, the lessons she learned from her difficult first birth, and the importance of postnatal care.
Trigger warning: this episode contains discussions around subjects including traumatic birth and postnatal depression. If you feel this may be a difficult listen, please choose another episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby. |
| 0:05.0 | It's very important that you do recognize your own feelings, but again I was just passing them off as hormones. |
| 0:11.0 | Right. I wasn't really recognizing this as my anxiety disorder, |
| 0:14.8 | which was incomplete full-blown free fall again. |
| 0:18.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.7 | Alex just sort of turns up and she's like, oh, where's Anna? |
| 0:22.1 | Where's the baby? And he he's I don't know and she's |
| 0:25.2 | gonna be okay and she and he went I don't know I mean there is nothing more |
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