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.
