Ep. 52 - How Motherhood Led to C-PTSD Recovery with Stella Falkner

About this episode

Stella Falkner shares her journey from postpartum struggles to C-PTSD recovery and the creation of Dowa.

In this episode, Stella Falkner shares her inspiring journey from postpartum mental health struggles to creating and founding Dowa, a platform that bridges community support with clinical care for mothers. We dive into Stella’s personal experiences through postpartum that led her to discovering she had complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) and how she started healing from this. Stella tells us about how C-PTSD is different from PTSD because it arises from not one singular traumatic ...

People in this episode

Guest: Stella Falkner

Topics covered

• motherhood
• C-PTSD
• mental health
• postpartum
• community support

Keywords

• C-PTSD
• postpartum mental health
• community support
• healing
• trauma

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dowa

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