Mom, Unfiltered

Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Through Motherhood

Leah Kim (Author)

Mom, Unfiltered

Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Through Motherhood

Leah Kim (Author)

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A deeply personal examination of the dire state of our maternal and postpartum care for mothers

For expecting and new parents, too often the care is so focused on a healthy baby that the mother's physical and mental needs are overlooked. Mothers face intense pressure to have the perfect birth plan, breastfeed with ease, and immediately bond with their baby. Unfortunately, these expectations can lead to anxiety, depression, and overwhelm. But it doesn't have to be that way.

In Mom, Unfiltered: Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Through Motherhood, Leah Kim explores her own pregnancy and early motherhood experience as a BIPOC mom, the ways society fails new mothers, the mental health struggles of expecting and new mothers, the systemic neglect in care for BIPOC mothers, and how motherhood can be the inspiration for getting help and healing. Her story, enhanced with expert interviews, valuable resources, and the testimonies of other mothers, not only illuminates the impact of insufficient maternal care but also shows readers what can be done to improve care for mothers.

Mom, Unfiltered is profoundly personal and brutally honest, yet it is ultimately deeply hopeful. It is about survival and growth, an invitation to move beyond our current social, cultural, and familial realities to support mothers in a meaningful way-physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Birth
Chapter 2: Alien
Chapter 3: Fed
Chapter 4: Bloodline
Chapter 5: Influenced
Chapter 6: Village
Chapter 7: Heard
Chapter 8: Contort
Chapter 9: Mixed
Chapter 10: Shatter

Conclusion
About the Author

Product details

Published	Apr 30 2026
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	224
ISBN	9798881842437
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions	216 x 140 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Leah Kim

Leah Kim is a mental health advocate and host of t…

Courageously written; cathartic and healing to read. Kim invites readers into some of the most devastating, unspoken experiences of motherhood with candor, vulnerability, and hope. Through her personal story and socio-political analyses, Kim makes an irrefutable case for how our society fails mothers, while drawing us a map to collective healing and home.

Bianca Mabute-Louie, author of Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the 21st Century
Mom, Unfiltered is medicine for these times. It is a call for honesty, repair, and collective care. Leah gives voice to realities of motherhood that are often kept secret, makes meaning out of suffering, and offers a way through to healing. By weaving her own story with the experiences and wisdom of other mothers, Leah has created a tapestry of truths that will set us all free.

Layla F. Saad, New York Times bestselling author of Me and White Supremacy
Leah Kim is a change agent who writes like someone trying to remake the world in the image of progress. Her sentences don't just imagine change; they insist on it. Until the reader, too, begins to believe in the possible.

Frederick Joseph, New York Times bestselling author of Patriarchy Blues and This Thing of Ours
Mom, Unfiltered level-sets the playing field for parents, guardians, coparents, and social justice warriors alike by crystallizing what this moment needs: collective care, love and community.

Joél Leon, author of the 2025 Gotham Book Prize-nominated Everything and Nothing at Once
Mom, Unfiltered is such a refreshing and honest look at motherhood. Leah Kim isn't afraid to tackle the tough stuff-racism in healthcare, generational trauma, and mental health-while reminding us to hold on to faith and grace through it all.

Anita Kopacz, bestselling author of Shallow Waters
Leah's brilliant vulnerability in Mom, Unfiltered gently unravels the shame woven into motherhood without losing sight of the systems that distort our path. She makes space for our imperfections, shares her own inherited trauma and generational patterns, and pulls no punches, calling out capitalism, racism, and white supremacy. I laughed out loud, teared up more than once, and finished feeling held by this beautiful confessional. It reminds us of our precious humanity and the divine right to evolve.

Ashley Simpo, writer, doula, and mom