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Lessons on life, leadership, resilience and mental health. Erika Diaz is a wife, mama, and women in leadership. She also has depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. Erika and guests will tackle several issues surrounding mental health and wellness through honest and vulnerable conversations. We’ll put it all out there on the table, dispelling myths on mental health and vulnerability, both personally and professionally. Together, we will challenge the status quo and begin to embrace who we are and what we need at home and at work. We aim to destimatize mental health by continuing the conversation, raising awareness, providing hope with an ultimate goal of saving lives!
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Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
🎧 Episode# 3: Thriving following diagnoses of PPD & GAD 🎧
Introducing Rocki Howard, a bold, beautiful, badass pioneer!
“My husband often says if more women were represented in healthcare, we would get more answers to women specific issues.”
She’s a DEIB influencer, on Staffing Industry Analysts - Global Power 150 list, and hosts Grown Woman Wednesday. Rocki also has a wonderful tool kit to help her mental health. She will share that with you in this episode.
This is a tool kit Rocki learned battling postpartum depression (PPD) and living with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Rocki is a true testimonial of those who are active participants in their mental health, continuing to thrive despite having a mental health illness.
This episode will cover:
🫶🏽 Rocki’s journey with PPD, and subsequent diagnosis of having GAD
🤱🏾 How PPD and GAD impacted Rocki as a mother
🫂 What support looks like from family and friends
🦸🏾 Leveraging your diagnoses as a super power!
🛠️ Several tools to utilize for mental health and wellness
Rocki’s Achievements:
- Founder of diversiology.io
- Host of Grown Women Wednesday.
- Staffing Industry Analysts - DEI Influencer in 2022 and 2023.
- Staffing Industry Analysts - Global Power 150 in 2023.
Facts about PPD & GAD:
In the US, PPD affects every 1 in 7-10 women, though the numbers are likely underestimated Scientists are unable to identify a single cause for PPD.
6.8 million people, 3% of the US, are diagnosed with GAD, women are 2x more likely than men.
Sources:
https://www.postpartumdepression.org/postpartum-depression/
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/perinatal-depression
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