A Better Pill To Swallow
Just a spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down. Inspired by his brother’s suicide David unleashes his outlandish banter and passion for mental health with his good friends and experts alike. He challenges the over-medicated status quo, asking questions and exploring new holistic alternatives with his guests from a wide array of experience and discipline.
A Better Pill To Swallow
37. From Broadway to Motherhood: Postpartum Depression and Finding Yourself Again
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There’s a moment in this conversation where Emily says she doesn’t recognize herself anymore—and somehow, it opens the door to something more honest.
Emily Walton—Broadway actress (Come From Away) turned mental health counselor—joins me for a conversation that moves between humor, identity, and what it means to stop performing in your own life.
We talk about growing up in a world where performance and self blur together, the strange safety of playing someone else, and the pull toward something more authentic.
And then parenthood enters—and everything shifts.
Emily shares what it’s been like to become a mother while navigating postpartum depression, panic, and the disorienting experience of losing access to yourself while being responsible for someone else’s life.
This is a conversation about transition—about letting go, showing up, and finding meaning on the other side of who you thought you had to be.
And somehow, through all of it, we keep laughing.
