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Episode:

Sandra Fights Postpartum Depression
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 00:37:26
Publish Date: 2017-05-27 06:54:22
Description:

Meet Sandra.

Sandra is the Mormon mother of 4 children who comes clean in this podcast episode about her struggles with postpartum depress and how a ride on her husband’s bicycle changed her life, gave her confidence and helped her cope with 4 young children.

If you’re a mother I encourage you to listen to this episode and know that you my friend, are simply not alone in the journey that is motherhood.

Enjoy our conversation.

 

Show Notes:

 

  • 3:00 Cache Valley wind caves, a local favorite for her and her family.
  • 7:30 On her ADD children and how getting outdoors helps them.
  • 10:30 On raising free-range children
  • 12:30 postpartum depression and how the outdoors helped Sandra cope

 

“I felt like I was failing at parenting..and it got to a really dark, dark point.”

 

  • 17:30 On not being able to function with 4 young children.
  • 19:00 How a liberating mountain bike ride changed her life.
  • 24:00 How Sandra is changing her family tree

 

“start by going outside…”

 

  • 29:00 Sandra’s adventurous, trail-blazing  Grandmother
  • 32:00 I’d tell my 12-year-old self that being yourself is okay.

 

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