Get Your Postpartum Needs Met with Allison Auth

It’s time for another speaker introduction for the Mental Health and Motherhood Summit.

Today I’m excited to introduce you to one of our 24 speakers,

Allison Auth

. Watch our quick video and say hello by following her or registering for her talk on the summit site!

Transcript For All The Noise Sensitive Moms Like Me:

Chanel Riggle (00:00)

Hello everyone, my name is Chanel Riggle. I am the organizer and founder of the Mental Health and Motherhood Summits. I'm super excited today because I have one of our speakers, Allison, with us and we are doing a little meet and greet so that you can get to know them a bit better. This event is October 10th through 11th, 2025 and tickets are now on sale. It's a great way for you to set aside time to feel supported by other mothers, authors, ⁓ counselors, you name it, we've got it.

So I'm gonna go ahead and pass it over to Allison. Welcome Allison.

Allison (00:34)

Thanks, Chanel. It's really great to talk with you and talk with everyone else who's going to be attending or maybe thinking about attending. name is Allison Auth. I live in Denver with my husband and our five kids. We homeschool here and where my husband kind of works outside the home in our backyard. He's got a wood shop. He's a woodworker. So we're kind of trying to build this family life together.

I'm the author of a book called Baby and Beyond, overcoming those post-childbirth woes. And in it, I'm just trying to meet moms where they're at in those postpartum struggles. ⁓ I define postpartum as the year after birth because so much happens in that first year. So many changes, the baby's changing, your changing, your body is changing. And so ⁓ I had my first three kids really quickly and then shortly after that. And so four kids in six years was a lot of change. so ⁓ what I discovered, I began this journey of healing after my fourth when I realized my body was physically in bad shape, that nutritionally I was very depleted. I was incredibly anxious. I've had like all of the post childbirth struggles that you can think of. I've had postpartum depression. I've had anxiety. We've had nursing troubles. We've had thrush. I've had gestational diabetes. I've hemorrhaged. You know, I've needed emergency C-section. Just feel like I've run the gamut of all the difficulties.

But what I have found is so much healing in integrating ⁓ my motherhood with my physical healing and my emotional healing and spiritual healing. So I wrote a book to tie that all together to encourage other mothers in their own journey because motherhood is the most difficult thing I've ever done, but it has been so rewarding and so healing in a lot of ways. And so I just want to share what I've learned with other mothers.

Chanel Riggle (02:42)

Thank you so much, Allison. I'm really looking forward to your talk, which by the way is titled, Your Postpartum Needs and How to Get Them Met. I would love to know more about why maternal mental health is so important to you. I know you kind of touched base on that a little bit. What are you hoping to communicate to mothers at the summit?

Allison (03:03)

Yeah, I think I would love to just communicate an awareness of the struggles that we can overcome and the things that are hard that maybe there's hope in, you for healing and for moving forward. A lot of, you know, the physical things that I have learned and the importance of, you know, nutrition that affects your mental health and the way your hormones work that affects how your body works and, you know, the fact that pelvic floor was a word I had never heard of before until my fourth.

And so I just feel like all these things that nobody told me, I just want to have an awareness, share that awareness of that. ⁓ Just compassion for other mothers ⁓ and just solidarity because I felt like I was the only one struggling because no one was talking about it. All of my friends seem like they really loved motherhood and everything was great, but we don't know what's going on.

behind everyone's closed doors and in their own homes, there's definitely a feeling of isolation. ⁓ so I just want to, I want to be your companion. I want to know that you're not struggling alone, that we're all trying to figure it out together, but there's just so much hope. And I just have so much compassion on you because I, I know how hard it is and I know where you're coming from, but I just leave you, you know, with that, that hope that things can get better.

“I just want to, I want to be your companion. I want to know that you're not struggling alone, that we're all trying to figure it out together, but there's just so much hope.” -Allison Auth

Chanel Riggle (04:29)

I love that. think I've always strived to be a mental health advocate because I've dealt with depression and anxiety my whole life. And when I became a mother, I was shocked really how different my depression was compared to before motherhood. You know, when I was like in my 20s or teens depression for me was like, well, externally things aren't going great. So internally I feel awful. ⁓ But motherhood depression was flipped.

I was like, I'm so blessed. I've always wanted to be a mother and I love my family and I love my daughter, but I still couldn't get rid of this isolating depression. And so I love that you're bringing in, you know, your faith and your physical needs and the emotional needs.

And I'm really excited to hear more about that because I think we need to look, we need to look at ⁓ our own wellness as mothers, just as wholeheartedly as we do our our kids because we take those factors in for them as well.

Thank you so much for joining me. I would love for everyone to check out Allison's talk and register when you buy your ticket, which starts at $25 for the summit. You can look at all of the speakers that we have and you can register to be notified when everyone is presenting so you don't miss a thing. But you can also check out the recording. So thank you so much, Allison, for your time today. Have a good one.

Allison (06:10)

Thanks, Chanel.

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Please also share this with mothers you know so they can access mental health resources at the summit. Tickets start at $25