The Bridge from Mental Health Crisis to Healing: The Retreat That Changed Everything in Sandy’s Postpartum Healing w/ Dr Daren Brooks

About this episode

Sandy shares her transformative experience at The Bridge Recovery Center following a postpartum mental health crisis, discussing the healing modalities that helped her recover.

In this deeply personal episode, Sandy and Wade sit down with Dr. Daren Brooks, founder of The Bridge Recovery Center, to share the next chapter of Sandy’s postpartum healing journey. After a terrifying mental health crisis, a psych ward stay, severe sleep deprivation, and the weight of deep unresolved trauma, Sandy arrived at The Bridge just nine weeks postpartum, desperate for real healing and hopeful there was still a way back to herself. This conversation is about what happened next. Sandy opens up about what it was like to leave her newborn and family for 21 days, the fear she carried walking in, and the healing she experienced through a powerful blend of trauma work, nervous system support, movement, nature, bodywork, nutrition, spirituality, and compassionate clinical care. Dr. Brooks shares the story behind The Bridge, how his own pain led him to create a place for people in the “middle ground” of mental health recovery, and why true healing is about more than medication, diagnoses, or survival. It’s about restoring life to living. In this episode, we talk about: postpartum depression and trauma the gap between psych wards and real healing support what The Bridge is and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sandy Critides, Wade Critides

Guest: Dr Daren Brooks

Topics covered

• postpartum depression
• mental health recovery
• trauma healing
• nervous system regulation
• bodywork
• spirituality

Keywords

• postpartum healing
• mental health crisis
• trauma work
• nervous system support
• nutrition
• breathwork
• compassionate care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Bridge Recovery Center

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