Book Review: Rattled: How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain

"Pensak summed up Rattled’s goal in this way: “Mothers need to know what they are working with under the hood: maternal brain changes, normal mom worries that are adaptive, worries that are not helpful, and how to harness it all, backed by science and therapy… By understanding both the physiological and the psychological, we can make clear-eyed decisions to nurture the process of matrescence. We can learn to accept what is typical: ambivalence, mom worries, interruptions, forgetfulness, unexpected thoughts, postpartum pressures, and new emotions. We can harness both the struggles and the gifts that motherhood provides” (Introduction, xi)."

Read the rest of my Rattled book review at Natural Womanhood.