The Anxious Mother with Yael Goldstein-Love

Dr. Dan speaks to therapist and author Yael Goldstein-Love about maternal anxiety, her recent Slate essay In Defense of the Anxious Mother, and her new novel The Possibilites (based on her own harrowing experience as a new mother). 

On this episode Dr. Dan and Yael Goldstein-Love, a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology specializing in how mothers experience anxiety, discuss:

• The postpartum experience

• What exactly is maternal anxiety 

• The normal existential crisis that accompanies having a first child

• The new parent experience and the primal need to protect

• Normalizing motherhood experiences including worry

Today’s episode is enlightening and validating, and will inform listeners about these common experiences.

Yael Goldstein-Love practices psychotherapy, with a particular interest in the transition to parenthood, and is working toward her doctorate in clinical psychology. Her dissertation research focuses on how mothers experience their anxiety for the unknown futures of their children. She is a graduate of Harvard University and currently attends The Wright Institute. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in many outlets including Slate, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal Speakeasy Blog, The Atlantic online, The Millions, The Forward, and Commentary. She lives with her six-year-old son and a very patient cat in Berkeley, CA.