Community
We are building a safe community of other moms committed to understanding and prioritizing their mental wellness and needs in motherhood
Conversation
We’re opening up the dialogue and cultivating important conversations through our instagram community, our live webinars, and our weekly podcasts.
Applicable Tools
Online courses and trainings that give you a science-backed understanding of your brand new (and confusing) maternal brain, your changing relationships, and the whys behind what-the-heck is happening.
Courses also include recommendations and roadmaps for improving your mental and physical health specifically with moms in mind. You will also have opportunities for 1:1 coaching and guidance from Jen & Rachel.
About Us
Hi, we are Dr. Jen Jordan & Rachel Daggett, LMFT.
We are both moms of 2, on a mission to improve the education and care available to pregnant, postpartum, and mothering women.
Together, we built Bloom After Baby to support womenas they become mothers.
Bloom After Baby was born out of a personal and professional recognition of the lack of support for women throughout the journey of motherhood - from trying to conceive and infertility, to pregnancy, miscarriage, birth, postpartum and beyond - we've witnessed and experienced firsthand how the current system fails to provide the information and tools women need to understand their experiences, prepare and anticipate their needs, and make informed decisions about their health.
Utilizing our respective backgrounds and expertise in family medicine, psychology, mental health, and counseling, we have created a safe, non-judgmental space for you to access:
Education
Online courses and trainings that give you a science-backed understanding of your brand new (and confusing) maternal brain, your changing relationships, and the whys behind what-the-heck is happening.
Courses also include recommendations and roadmaps for improving your mental and physical health specifically with moms in mind. You will also have opportunities for 1:1 coaching and guidance from Jen & Rachel.
Who We Are
Rachel
LMFT, CO-FOUNDER
Hi, I’m Rachel, the therapist half of Bloom After Baby. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a mom of two littles.
Motherhood has rocked me, to my core. My kids so far have been the greatest, tiniest, and toughest little teachers I’ve ever had. Although it feels like a battle most days, and some days are just indescribably hard, I am so incredibly grateful and lucky to have them.
The foundation of my experience and expertise has been in treating Eating Disorders, Depression, Anxiety, and working with survivors of relational and sexual trauma or abuse. I have primarily trained and studied from an emphasis in Mindfulness and Integration of somatic, mental, and emotional aspects of the human experience. I completed a 200-hour foundational yoga certification, and am an EMDR Trained Therapist.
Over the last few years, my clinical interests have evolved as I have entered motherhood and faced a whole new set of personal challenges. Sustaining my career choice has required a constant “coming home” to myself as I discover new parts and phases of life. I have a commitment to protecting and preserving my own mental health, while also being the mother my children deserve, and a passionate therapist dedicated to my clients and their well-being. When we step into our mom shoes for the first time, we ignite a new, re-born version of ourselves, and with that can come an overwhelming amount of grief for the parts of ourselves that get buried in that process. I know that my children will not benefit from being raised by empty, resentful, fragmented parts of me. Through my training and my own personal work, I have learned to stick around and buckle up, continuously growing and shedding and regrowing. It’s uncomfortable, it’s humbling, and I know in my heart that it is so so worth it for me, my kids, and the generations to come. Many of us were raised in a generation where motherhood was defined as self-less and sacrificial, which we have seen leads to resentment and loss of real connection. Sacrifice is involved, of course, but we can’t afford to lose ourselves.
I can’t wait to help you bring yourSELF back into the forefront and transform your life and well-being as this brand new beautifully broken and blooming maternal version of you.
Dr Jen
MD, CO-FOUNDER
MD, CO-FOUNDER
Hi! I’m Jen Jordan. I’m a family medicine physician and mom of 2 little girls! In the past 3 years, since becoming a mom, everything in my life has shifted, flipped upside down, turned around… Motherhood has reshaped my perspective on nearly every major aspect of my life, including my career goals and passions.
Before medical school, I studied medical anthropology which looks at health and illness in the context of social, cultural, and biological factors and the relationships between those variables. As a family medicine physician, I carried that perspective with me, and I approached patient care with that whole-person perspective. Much of my clinical experience centered around women’s health and mental health - depression, anxiety, addiction medicine - and also nutrition and preventative medicine. And at the core of a treatment or care plan, was always patient education - clear communication so that patients could understand the mechanisms or physiology of what they’re experiencing in a way that allows them to be able to also understand what treatment or interventions are appropriate, or what they can do for prevention or health optimization. Particularly in mental health conditions, I always enjoyed helping connect the dots between mood, thoughts, and behaviors with the underlying physiology and environment. This is the idea behind biopsychosoical model, which looks at biological, psychological, and social factors and their complex interactions in understanding health and illness.
But when I became a mom, I soon realized this isn’t the way we’re viewing moms and educating them in prenatal and postpartum care. We’re not informing women about what this all-encompassing transformation can look and feel like in a way that empowers them to prepare and anticipate their needs, and make informed decisions about their health. During postpartum, I struggled with bouts of depression, anxiety, rage, and intrusive thoughts. But I didnt’ know how to distinguish those things from just being overwhelmed and exhausted in new motherhood. It felt like all of those feelings were flaws or inadequacy, and that if I tried a little hard, found a bit more balance, regulated my emotions a little bit better, then I’d be on the right track. I didn’t have the insight to know what was normal, or even what was going on in my body underlying these psychological and mental changes… and I also didn’t know what I could do to feel better, or, how to know if and when I needed to reach out for help. And through candid conversations with other moms, including sisters, best friends, co-workers who are physicians and mental health specialists, I realized that so many other moms felt the same way, but we werent’ talking about it because we didn’t have the language. We were all struggling in silence.
What Rachel and I have also experienced and observed is that, it isn’t just in pregnancy and the postpartum period. There are other mental health challenges that are so unique to motherhood that are ongoing well past the postpartum period. For example, the idea of the invisible load, or pressures of being the default parent, mom guilt. These challenges are so unique to motherhood, but there aren’t similarly unique or targeted support options built into typical maternal health care or the motherhood experiences for most women.
We found from personal experience, what served us the best during this time have been online tools - resources we could turn to in the middle of the night while feeding baby or during a stroller walk. Reliable resources are out there, but it can be challenge to find them. So as we’ve pieced together much of our own information and care plans through multiple resources online, a roadmap began to emerge.. and it started working for us! So we realized this is something we need to share - this is the information that we wish we’d had when we started our journeys.
And so, Bloom After Baby was born. Our vision is a digital support space, disseminating information through social media, podcasts, and online courses to meet moms where they are—on their phones, scrolling at night, seeking information and support the way we had. Central to this vision is comprehensive and applicable education and training tools with the information moms truly need at this transformative stage, and also the creation of a community where moms feel seen, heard, and uplifted, coupled with the opportunity for direct 1:1 support. We’re on a mission to demystify the transformations of body and mind on the journey to motherhood that will set you on a forever path of resilience and continued growth.
