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Coping with Pregnancy Anxiety: How to Find Calm in the Uncertainty
Feeling anxious during pregnancy is more common than you might think. Learn how to manage pregnancy anxiety with therapist-backed coping strategies that support your mental health during pregnancy and help you feel more grounded, calm, and connected to your baby.
5 Ways to Ask for Help as a New Mom (Without Feeling Guilty)
Asking for help doesn’t make you a bad mom- it makes you human. Learn 5 simple, guilt-free ways to build new mom support and care for your mental health in early motherhood.
Understanding Postpartum Depression: A Therapist’s Guide to Healing
If you’ve been feeling sad, numb, or unlike yourself after giving birth, you’re not alone. This guide explains postpartum depression symptoms, why it happens, and how therapy can help you heal and reconnect with yourself in motherhood.
Building a Support System as a New Mom: Finding Connection and Care in Motherhood
Motherhood wasn’t meant to be done alone. Learn how to build meaningful new mom support, find mom friends, and create a nurturing community for moms that supports your emotional well-being and confidence in early motherhood.
Mindfulness Practices for Busy Moms
Feeling stretched thin? Discover simple mindfulness exercises designed for busy moms to reduce stress, increase presence, and support your mental health and well-being.
10 Signs You Might Be Experiencing Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression can affect any new mom and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Learn the 10 most common postpartum depression signs and how to recognize when it’s time to seek support for your maternal mental health.
Overcoming Mom Guilt: A Therapist’s Guide
Mom guilt can feel relentless but it doesn’t have to define your motherhood. In this therapist’s guide, you’ll learn why guilt shows up, how to shift unhelpful thought patterns, and practical mom guilt tips to help you build self-compassion and embrace guilt-free parenting.
Pregnancy After Loss: Navigating Hope, Fear, and Healing
Pregnancy after loss can bring a swirl of emotions- hope, fear, grief, and love, all existing at once. You might feel grateful for this new baby while still carrying the pain of what you’ve lost. This post explores the tender emotional landscape of pregnancy after miscarriage or stillbirth, why it can be hard to trust your body again, and how trauma-informed therapy (including EMDR) can help you find calm and connection in this new chapter.
Why Self-Care in Motherhood Isn’t Selfish (It’s Survival)
Self-care isn’t selfish- it’s survival. In a culture that asks moms to give endlessly while offering little support, taking care of yourself is an act of resistance. This post explores why rest and boundaries matter in motherhood, plus simple self-regulation tools you can start using today.
Feeling Disconnected From Your Baby? Understanding Postpartum Bonding Challenges
Bonding with your baby doesn’t always happen instantly and if you’re feeling disconnected, you’re not alone. Many new moms quietly wonder, “Why am I not bonding with my baby?” In this post, we’ll explore why postpartum bonding challenges happen, how to recognize the signs, and gentle ways to nurture connection with support and compassion.
When Everything Feels Like Too Much: How to Cope with Overwhelm in Motherhood & Beyond
Motherhood can feel overwhelming- especially when the news is heavy and your baby needs you nonstop. Learn simple grounding tools and long-term strategies to feel calmer and more grounded.
Why Old Wounds Resurface in Motherhood
Motherhood has a way of shining light on parts of our past we thought were long behind us. Many new moms are surprised when old wounds- like childhood pain, unresolved trauma, or self-critical thoughts, suddenly resurface after having a baby. This can feel confusing, overwhelming, and even shameful. But you’re not alone, and you’re not broken. In this post, we explore why motherhood often brings up old hurts, how it impacts your daily life, and the healing tools that can help you feel more grounded, connected, and confident.
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination: Why Moms Do It & What Helps
Feeling exhausted but still staying up late to scroll or binge shows? You’re not alone. Many moms fall into “revenge bedtime procrastination” as a way to reclaim time for themselves but it often backfires, leaving you even more drained. In this post, we explore why moms do it, why it doesn’t actually help, and gentle alternatives that can give you the rest, peace, and “me time” you truly deserve.
The Invisible Weight of Motherhood in Postpartum: Understanding and Sharing the Mental Load
Motherhood often comes with an invisible backpack of responsibility- remembering feeding schedules, planning pediatrician visits, managing household tasks, all while running on very little sleep. This unseen burden is called the mental load, and for many new moms, it becomes heavier than ever in the postpartum period. In this post, we’ll explore what the mental load is, why it intensifies after baby arrives, how it impacts your mental health and relationships, and practical tools to begin sharing it more equally. Plus, discover a new resource designed to help couples rebalance the load together.
3 Tools for Moms to Regulate Nervous System
If you feel constantly on edge in motherhood- snapping, spiraling, or emotionally shutting down- you’re not alone. This blog post shares three simple, trauma-informed nervous system tools to help you feel calmer and more in control. Learn how to soothe overwhelm, ease anxiety, and reconnect with a sense of safety in your body.
Top 5 Reasons to Start Therapy While Pregnant
Pregnancy can bring joy but also anxiety, identity shifts, and unexpected emotional triggers. Therapy during pregnancy gives you a safe, supportive space to process what’s coming, heal what’s surfacing, and prepare for postpartum with more clarity and confidence. In this post, we explore five powerful reasons to consider starting therapy while pregnant, and how it can support your emotional well-being before baby arrives.
You Don’t Need PTSD to Benefit: 5 Hidden Struggles EMDR Therapy Can Address
EMDR therapy is known for treating PTSD, but that’s only part of the story. For many moms, trauma shows up in quieter, everyday ways: anxiety that won’t let up, guilt that runs deep, or emotional triggers that seem to come out of nowhere. In this post, we’re exploring five hidden struggles EMDR can help you heal- so you can feel more grounded, empowered, and at peace in motherhood.
Postpartum Anxiety vs. “Normal” New Mom Worry: How to Tell the Difference
Are you a new mom constantly questioning if your worries are normal or something more? This blog post breaks down the difference between typical postpartum concerns and postpartum anxiety, helping you understand the signs, why it happens, and how therapy can help. Learn what to watch for, how to get support, and why you’re not failing- you’re just human. If the weight of motherhood feels like too much, you’re not alone, and there’s a path to relief.
You Don’t Have to Hold It All Together: What Therapy for Moms Really Looks Like
You don’t have to keep holding it all together. If motherhood feels heavier than you imagined and you’re overwhelmed, anxious, or grieving parts of your experience you didn’t expect- this post is for you. Learn what therapy for moms really looks like and how it can help you feel more supported, grounded, and like yourself again. Therapy isn’t about fixing you. It’s about supporting the real you under all the pressure.
Struggling in Postpartum? Understanding Clean Pain vs. Dirty Pain Can Help
Postpartum can feel like an emotional rollercoaster and you’re not alone in wondering why it’s so hard. In this post, we explore the powerful concept of clean vs. dirty pain to help you understand your struggles with more clarity and compassion. Learn how to tell the difference, why it matters, and what you can do to feel more supported and less stuck.