The Wellness Mama Podcast 290: Braving Dark Night of the Soul and Learning to Own Yourself With Kelly Brogan
Today we’re going in a different direction but it’s one more closely related to physical health than we often realize. I am here with Dr. Kelly Brogan, MD, whom you have heard from before. (See the show notes below for her first episode.) She’s board-certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine and specializes in root cause resolution as an approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms (not to mention graduating from Cornell and M.I.T.)
Dr. Kelly has a lot of fascinating things to say about the anxiety, depression, and mental health struggles so many women face. She’s reframing the entire conversation and has authored the New York Times bestselling book A Mind of your Own as well as the children’s book A Time for Rain. She’s also co-editor of the landmark (and much-needed) textbook Integrative Therapies for Depression.
In this conversation, we get super vulnerable about life changes that come with being a mother and something she calls a dark night of the soul. We all have a lot to share with each other on this topic I’m sure, so please chime in and let me know if you can related and what you think in the comments.
Learning to Own Yourself: Episode Highlights
- Why we might need to reframe the stories we’ve learned about birth, mothering, and the emotional realm
- What the dark night of the soul is
- How to know if this is what you’re facing
- Why symptoms can be a beautiful invitation
- The things we all have things where we love to be “right about being wrong”
- How emotions get coded physically in the body
- Whether men experience anything similar
- And more!
Resources We Mention
Books by Kelly Brogan
- Own Your Self: The Surprising Path beyond Depression, Anxiety, and Fatigue to Reclaiming Your Authenticity, Vitality, and Freedom
- A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives
- A Time for Rain (A Book for Parent and Child)
Other Resources
- Books by Byron Katie
- Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker