Pregnancy and Mental Health with Dr Jess Stanbridge

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Our first guest this season is the incredible Dr Jess Standbridge. A specialist psychiatrist and advocate for mental health, Jess has recently become a mother. This experience informs the many insights she shares around maternal mental health and the transformative experience of becoming a mother. In this episode we hear about her own pregnancy and how she learned the most important lesson of all...how to surrender.

21 Nov 2022 English Explicit South Africa Self-Improvement · Relationships

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