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Welcome to Healthy Mind By Avik ™ - ”Healthy Mind, Healthy Life”, a podcast that explores the connection between mental health and overall well-being. Join us each week as we delve into topics related to positive psychology, mindfulness, and personal development, and provide practical tips and strategies for cultivating a healthy and balanced mind.
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Pregnancy is often packaged as pure joy. But for so many people, it shows up as something more layered: hope and fear, love and grief, excitement and exhaustion, sometimes all in the same morning. The people around her can either ease that load or quietly add to it.
In this episode, host Yusuf sits with Suzzie Vehrs, birth and postpartum doula and founder of She Births Bravely, to talk about what pregnant and new mothers actually carry emotionally, why presence matters more than perfect gifts, and the small, consistent ways partners, friends, and family can show up. Tender, honest, and deeply human.
About the Guest:
Suzzie Vehrs is a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, and the founder of She Births Bravely, a platform supporting families through pregnancy, birth, and the early postpartum months. After leaving a career in finance and walking through her own challenging birth experiences, she has gone on to support over 200 births and reach more than a million mothers through her writing. She is also the author of Divine Birth.
Key Takeaways:
- Pregnancy emotions are not one note. Joy often arrives later, after grief, fear, and uncertainty have been allowed to exist. Skipping straight to performed happiness blocks the real thing.
- Presence is the foundation. A partner simply being in the room, holding a hand, staying close, can physiologically support a labouring person, oxytocin moves with felt safety.
- Support is small and steady. Thoughtful texts, a walk together, a shared meal, taking something off her plate at work, this is what actually changes her week.
- Postpartum mothers need to be seen as whole humans, not just as the baby's caregiver. Helping her stay connected to herself is one of the most underrated gifts.
- When in doubt, bring food and skip the questions. Drop a meal, say what day works, and keep her space and energy protected.
Connect With the Guest:
- Website: https://shebirthsbravely.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shebirthsbravely/
- Doula profile: https://doulamatch.net/profile/28670/suzzie-vehrs
- Book: Divine Birth: A Collection of Wisdom + Coloring Pages to Inspire and Empower the Pregnant Mother (linked from her website)
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