Each year 1 in 5 women will experience a mental health condition such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and so many others. Women are twice as likely as men to experience any of those conditions, yet are less likely to seek treatment for their symptoms.
Barriers to women accessing help include cost / lack of insurance, lack of awareness to treatment options, lack of time, lack of accessible resources and stigma.
My guest today is on a mission to destigmatize women's mental health issues and help improve access to high quality, compassionate care with her virtual model. I had a great conversation with Dr. Carly Crewe about assessing our mental health, identifying and regulating our emotions and how maternal mental health affects our parenting. We loved having this discussion and hope it helps you!
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In this episode, Dr. Carly Crewe and I discuss Emotional Regulation and Positive Parenting including answers to the following questions:
- Why did Dr. Crewe begin to work with women's mental health?
- Do our body and mind know the difference between low level stressors and catastrophic, life-altering stressors?
- What are some ways we can assess our own mental health?
- What is a safe amount of information to share with our children?
- What is positive parenting and how does it differ from traditional / attachment parenting?
- How can we help children learn to regulate their emotions?
- Why do we have such a low tolerance for stress and distress?
- What is the one, really simple thing we can do to help navigate distress?
- Does practicing mindfulness or grounding techniques for low level stressors translate to helping us cope with larger scale stressors?
- Is it 'dove' or 'dived'?
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Carly Crewe, MD CCFP is a Canadian-trained and certified family physician. She is a mom to twin toddlers, modern day nomad and MD Psychotherapist specializing in women’s mental health. Dr. Crewe is the CEO and Owner of Eunoia Medical Clinic, an innovative and dynamic virtual clinic that provides comprehensive treatment of mental health disorders in women by an extraordinary team of female family doctors.
Carly hosts the 5-star rated Mind Over Motherhood Podcast where she shares practical and down-to-earth insights on all things mindset, motherhood and mental health. Dr. Crewe is an Amazon best-selling author and her book You Are Not Your Anxiety is currently available on CarlyCrewe.com and online retailers worldwide. As a mental health consultant and content creator, Dr. Crewe contributes to various online publications and works with health authorities across the country.
After the birth of her twins in 2016, Carly struggled with significant postpartum mental illness. Through therapy, mindset work, self-care and medication support, she was able to come out the other side armed with a myriad of strategies and approaches to help others. Carly now calls a 31-foot RV “home” with her husband Ryan, twin girls and two rescue dogs.
For more from Dr. Crewe check out:
www.carlycrewe.com
or
IG: @carlycrewe
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All my love & gratitude to:
my guest: Dr. Carly Crewe,
my inspiration: my patients,
my idea guy & confidence booster: Edward,
my intro crew: Izzy, Lance & Lucia,
my tech & equipment guy: Pop,
my angel: Susie,
my music & sound guy: Mike VM,
my mascot: Jules,
my creative director & cheerleader: Emily,
my love, Michael.