39: GUEST | Kayce Hodos on Postpartum, Identity Loss, and Giving Moms Permission to Hate the Hard Parts

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In this episode, we’re talking SHIFT with therapist Kayce Hodos—an expert in perinatal mental health and someone who’s deeply unafraid to tell the truth about motherhood.

Together, we dismantle the myths that keep parents isolated: the pressure to feel instant love, the shame of postpartum identity loss, the fantasy that becoming a parent will heal your wounds instead of exposing them. Kayce opens up about her own postpartum experience, what she wishes she had known, and how the system continues to fail parents (especially moms) in their most vulnerable moments.

We talk depression, rage, resentment, marriage, missed expectations, and the raw, invisible grief of becoming someone new. This isn’t about fear-mongering—it’s about giving parents informed consen ...