The untold story of the transition phase of motherhood-and the brain behind it all.
Moms & Brains: Why Brain Care Matters, Especially for New Moms by Prashanthi Punyakoti
Motherhood changes everything-including your brain. Yet no one tells you how.
"Moms & Brains" explores how maternal brain science can empower women to nurture themselves from within. Discover how attention, emotion, hormones, and identity shift in motherhood, and why brain care isn't a luxury-it's survival.
In this groundbreaking book, author Prashanthi Punyakoti takes you on a powerful journey into one of the most overlooked aspects of the transition phase of motherhood: the maternal brain. With a unique blend of neuroscience, emotional insight, and holistic wisdom, Moms & Brains reveals how a mother's brain undergoes profound transformation-rewiring itself in ways that shape her thoughts, emotions, memory, and even identity.
Born from the author's own experience of grief, transformation, and quiet resilience, Moms & Brains is more than just science-it's a compassionate companion for every mother who has ever felt overwhelmed, invisible, or unsure of who she's becoming.
This book gently unpacks:
- How pregnancy and the transition into motherhood reshape the female brain
- The emotional and cognitive shifts mothers experience during this phase-and why they matter
- Why mental clarity, emotional resilience, and rest are not luxuries, but biological needs
- How practices like mindfulness, movement, and emotional attunement nourish the mother's brain
- What modern science and ancient wisdom together reveal about healing and identity
Whether you're navigating the transition phase of motherhood or supporting someone you love, Moms & Brains is here to guide this profound time of brain change.
It helps new moms see their journey through a new, empowering lens. It doesn't offer a one-size-fits-all solution-it offers something far more powerful: validation, insight, emotional clarity, understanding, and awareness.
This is the book every mother deserves to read. Because caring for your brain is caring for your whole self-and that care changes everything.