Postpartum University® Podcast · Maranda Bower, Postpartum Nutrition Specialist

Healing the Healers: Stories of Motherhood, Burnout & Postpartum Mental Health | Corina Fitch EP 223

July 8, 2025·56 min·2 clips

Being a midwife actually made birth harder. The woman does the hard work—I was just there supporting her.

Miranda Bauer and Karina Finch discuss maternal wellness and postpartum mental health. Karina shares her journey as a midwife who experienced severe postpartum depression and bipolar disorder after her third daughter, leading to founding Motherfly for maternal empowerment. The episode reframes matrescence (maternal transformation) as a portal to personal power rather than pathology, and discusses the gap between conventional medical care and what mothers actually need. Key topics include self-care as motherhood foundation, the paradox of professional knowledge in personal experience, provider burnout, and integrating dance, nutrition, and mental health support for holistic healing.

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A grounded postpartum care conversation that treats maternal struggle as a systems problem, not a personal failure.

Corina Finch's story reads as both lived experience and institutional critique: a midwife, three daughters, and a mental health struggle set against postpartum care that still misses too many mothers.

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Hear Karina Finch connect motherhood, a mental health battle, and postpartum care gaps with unusual candor.

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