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168: Postpartum Depression with Gloria Niemi

168: Postpartum Depression with Gloria Niemi

Today I have a special guest. She is a good friend of mine, Gloria Niemi. Gloria is a mom of seven and a life coach for moms with postpartum depression. 

In this episode, we talked about what was Gloria’s story and journey with postpartum depression and why she started this path.

Gloria has always dreamed about being a mom, folding her cute laundry, and having so much love in her life. But fast forward to May of 2012 when her daughter was born, and it was the last thing she thought it would be. Gloria felt so disconnected. She disconnected from her daughter, from her life, from herself. Gloria felt a lot of heaviness from that year onwards. Not until after her fifth round of postpartum depression that she begins to see a therapist. After her seventh pregnancy, Gloria went ahead to work with a coach and pursued getting certifications to help others. 

We also talked about grief. Where depression is one of the so-called stages of grief, it can be hard to want to live or to keep going. What can someone do when they feel like they don’t have any energy to live? 

And a lot of floating questions in mind that we need answers to:

  • How are you even supposed to start when your body is feeling heavy, even if you don’t have any energy to make changes?

  • How do you even find that energy to do an extra step?

  • How do I get rid of it? How do I be done with this? 

  • How can you support yourself to flow with it rather than stay stuck with depression?

If you want to connect and follow along with Gloria here are a few places you can do that!

www.Instagram.com/operationhappymom

www.subscribepage.com/doubleyourhappiness

Website: www.glorianiemi.com

Books mentioned in the podcast episode:

Breaking the Habit of Being You by Joe Dispenza

Undoing depression by Dr. Richard O'Connor

Are you ready to stop cycling in the pain and anguish of grief? What if you could get a moment of calm and respite? After your child dies, everything feels hopeless and dark, and it’s hard to even think straight. Staying in survival mode keeps the cycle going.

Register to watch this free video on how to stop the pain, and feel better again.


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