Keeping A Marriage Strong With Kids
About this episode
This episode discusses the challenges of maintaining a strong marriage while navigating parenthood.
Becoming a parent changes everything. Your schedule, your sleep, your sense of self. And often, your relationship, too. But that's not the part we tend to talk about. On this episode of "Mind If We Talk?" host and licensed mental health counselor Sreela Roy-Greene sits down with Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson and former NFL pro Andrew East, a married couple of ten years and parents to three children. Their journey into parenthood was anything but easy. It began with an unplanned pregnancy, a miscarriage that brought grief on different timelines, and, later, a difficult postpartum experience that neither Shawn nor Andrew quite understood at the time. In this intimate conversation, Shawn and Andrew share the ways in which becoming parents has tested them— from the moment Andrew decided they needed a therapist’s help to how they've managed to keep choosing each other, even when things get really hard. Later in the show, Sreela is joined by licensed therapist Sonni Williams from BetterHelp. Together, they explore what couples underestimate most about having a baby, how to recognize the signs of postpartum mood disorders, and a 3 a.m. exercise every couple should try before the baby…
People in this episode
Host: Sreela Roy-Greene
Guests: Shawn Johnson, Andrew East
Topics covered
- parenthood
- marriage
- mental health
- postpartum
- couples therapy
Keywords
- marriage
- parenting
- postpartum mood disorders
- couples therapy
- grief
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: BetterHelp
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