What Maria Shriver Wants Women to Know About Their Brain Health

Yet “there’s more to women’s health than menopause,” Shriver added. Brain health, including mental health, is important to talk about throughout every stage of a woman’s life. She pointed to the recent trial of Lindsay Clancy as evidence that women are talking more openly about maternal mental health. She recently had a conversation with six or seven other mothers who discussed the case and began sharing their own emotional and postpartum experiences.

Clancy, a Massachusetts mother, was tried on charges of killing her three young children in 2023. Her attorneys argued that she was not criminally responsible because she was experiencing