The Maternal Stress Project
Molly Dickens, PhD, Lisa Sibbett, Darby Saxbe, Alex BollenExploring the stress load of modern American motherhood… and how we fix it together.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 118 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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The sleep prescription (repost)
Mark your calendars! I am going LIVE with Dr. on June 1st at 12pmPT/3pmET/8pmGMT to talk all things DAD BRAIN
(and how paternal brain research applies to women’s health and partnership in the home and broader societal conversa...
AUDIO -- The sleep prescription (repost)
“The stress doesn’t feel like being squeezed in a sandwich press. It feels like being pulled in a dozen different directions. I lie in the dark (thanks perimenopause) and swirl on all the questions, aware of about a dozen more that I don’t...
Breaking down postpartum *Good Mother myths* with Alex Bollen
Wow, that was fun!
If you didn’t get a chance to join Alex and I for our Substack Live last week, you can watch the whole recording here 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼
Or, if you’re the readin’ type, below is the (lightly edited) transcript.
Also, QUICK...
AUDIO -- Breaking down postpartum *Good Mother myths* with author Alex Bollen
Oooohweeeee! It’s a special audio recording that may sound like an actual podcast! Ok, fine, let’s be honest, it still has that self-made charm of zero production value so, let’s go with “podcast” (heavy emphasis on quotation marks).
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Here's to maternal rebels.
I was not a very cute baby. My mom, however, was a hot rebel.
I wrote the essay below a few years back in honor of Mother’s Day and decided it was time to repost with a few edits and updates.
AUDIO!
At the time, writing this felt like b...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Stress physiologist and women's health advocate. Currently focusing on the intersection of stress, maternal health, and the structures, systems, and cultural narratives that fail to support women and working parents.
Kid whisperer. Auntie to the Aunties.
Professor at the University of Southern California. I study the neurobiology of parenthood & wrote the book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives, forthcoming June 2026.
Researcher and author of 'Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good Mother Myths' published in 2025 by Verso and now out in paperback.
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