What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood

Alexandra Sacks, M.D. is a renowned reproductive psychiatrist and the leading expert on “matrescence,” the developmental transition into motherhood. She is known for popularizing the concept in her TED talk with over 1.4 million views, and in her article “The Birth of a Mother,” the number one most read piece of 2017 for The New York Times “Well Family” section, where she is a regular contributor. Her work has been featured in TIME, NPR, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. She speaks widely on the advancement of women in the workplace, including at Plum Organics with Esther Perel, Goldman Sachs, Cloudflare, Fox 5, and the American Psychiatric Association. She is the host of a motherhood podcast to be released in April 2019 by Gimlet Media, and coauthor of What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood also to be published in April 2019 by Simon and Schuster. Speaking: Choose from a wid