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The Postpartum Depression Workbook: Strategies to Overcome Negative Thoughts, Calm Stress, and Improve Your Mood
Powerful strategies and compassionate support for overcoming postpartum depression
Becoming a parent is a huge transition. For some, the mood swings, the pressures, and the anxiety can be intense and overwhelming. One in five women will develop postpartum depression (PPD) after pregnancy—so if you're struggling with PPD, know you're not alone. This depression workbook is designed to help you navigate the transition to becoming the healthy and happy parent you want to be.
This depression workbook is here to guide you on your journey, providing supportive strategies and tools grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)—proven to help you understand, cope with, and reduce your PPD symptoms. Discover common signs of PPD, what it is, and what you can do about it. Explore your thoughts, feelings, and relationships, plus self-care practices through a variety of practical and insightful exercises in this depression workbook.
This depression workbook
This depression workbook provides the strategies, tools, and support you'll need for a healthy and happy transition into parenthood.
Becoming a parent is a huge transition. For some, the mood swings, the pressures, and the anxiety can be intense and overwhelming. One in five women will develop postpartum depression (PPD) after pregnancy—so if you're struggling with PPD, know you're not alone. This depression workbook is designed to help you navigate the transition to becoming the healthy and happy parent you want to be.
This depression workbook is here to guide you on your journey, providing supportive strategies and tools grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)—proven to help you understand, cope with, and reduce your PPD symptoms. Discover common signs of PPD, what it is, and what you can do about it. Explore your thoughts, feelings, and relationships, plus self-care practices through a variety of practical and insightful exercises in this depression workbook.
This depression workbook
This depression workbook provides the strategies, tools, and support you'll need for a healthy and happy transition into parenthood.
180 pages, Paperback
Published October 13, 2020
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October 5, 2024
It took me about a year to work my way thru this workbook thoughtfully. And amidst other therapy and useful advice I found this book an incredibly helpful support. Some chapters I had to leave and come back to at the right time and others were just perfect to dive into and work on right away. I highlighted, underlined, wrote, and journaled my way through it and I expect to be flipping back thru repeatedly.
October 10, 2020
When I was a pregnant and new mother I read all the books I could get my hands on about birthing, breastfeeding, and caring for my baby, but I never read up on postpartum depression (PPD). After having two babies of my own and experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMAD) I so desperately wish I would have had a tool like Abigail Burd’s book, The Postpartum Depression Workbook, in my postpartum toolkit.
Abigail not only explains and describes both PMAD and PPD, she includes many useful tools and reframing exercises to work through them as well. The workbook is not positioned as an alternative to therapy, though it could work for many if therapy was not part of their journey. Instead, the book can work in tandem with therapy, medications if needed, and other self-care practices.
If you’re reading this review and thinking that this book doesn’t pertain to you because you’re not planning on having a baby or you are already past the stages of early motherhood, I encourage you to reconsider. Almost all of us know folx who are in the stage of life of giving birth and the tools in this workbook can help you support those friends and family members who are in that stage. This is now going on my list of recommended reading for anyone considering or in the process of trying to conceive or currently pregnant or postpartum.
Abigail not only explains and describes both PMAD and PPD, she includes many useful tools and reframing exercises to work through them as well. The workbook is not positioned as an alternative to therapy, though it could work for many if therapy was not part of their journey. Instead, the book can work in tandem with therapy, medications if needed, and other self-care practices.
If you’re reading this review and thinking that this book doesn’t pertain to you because you’re not planning on having a baby or you are already past the stages of early motherhood, I encourage you to reconsider. Almost all of us know folx who are in the stage of life of giving birth and the tools in this workbook can help you support those friends and family members who are in that stage. This is now going on my list of recommended reading for anyone considering or in the process of trying to conceive or currently pregnant or postpartum.
May 9, 2024
As a therapist myself, most of this book sounded like what I usually talk about in therapy. The workbook is simple and practical, and I think would help someone with mild PPD who couldn’t access therapy
April 27, 2021
I received an advanced copy of this book to review, and opinions expressed herein are my own.
The author of this book, Abigail Burd, is a Perinatal Mental Health Certified expert. The expertise she has gathered over the years of working in this filed is evident in this book. This workbook provides professional, expert information in a way that is easy to grasp. I encourage anyone who has postpartum depression or thinks that they may have it to read this book. It provides the reader with an understanding of what postpartum depression is and what the risk factors are. More importantly, it provides tips for the reader on how to manage the symptoms of postpartum depression, and also explains how these symptoms can also impact a partner.
I am a therapist who also works in this field and I will be recommending this workbook to expecting and new parents to help in their transition to parenthood.
The author of this book, Abigail Burd, is a Perinatal Mental Health Certified expert. The expertise she has gathered over the years of working in this filed is evident in this book. This workbook provides professional, expert information in a way that is easy to grasp. I encourage anyone who has postpartum depression or thinks that they may have it to read this book. It provides the reader with an understanding of what postpartum depression is and what the risk factors are. More importantly, it provides tips for the reader on how to manage the symptoms of postpartum depression, and also explains how these symptoms can also impact a partner.
I am a therapist who also works in this field and I will be recommending this workbook to expecting and new parents to help in their transition to parenthood.
February 25, 2022
I developed pretty bad anxiety (all of a sudden) with everything revolving around my 9 month old and was concerned about my insomnia and other anxious symptoms. This workbook really helped me to figure out my negative filters and to learn how to put a stop to my spiraling anxiety. Needless to say, I fall asleep so fast at night now.
December 18, 2022
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Wonderfully written, good for almost any age. I, personally, gained a lot from reading this book. It truly helped me to look within myself for something deeper, to see things in a way like I have never before.
Definitely recommend.
Wonderfully written, good for almost any age. I, personally, gained a lot from reading this book. It truly helped me to look within myself for something deeper, to see things in a way like I have never before.
Definitely recommend.
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