Postpartum depression can feel like your world is so overwhelming that you just cannot do it anymore. You feel disconnected from yourself and your child and are convinced that nothing …
Signs of Postpartum Anxiety
Postpartum anxiety can feel overwhelming and all encompassing. You are not alone. There are many women who struggle with anxiety AND are great Mothers. If you are struggling with anxiety, …
Signs of Parenting Anxiety
New parents are likely to experience some anxiety. When parents are now suddenly responsible for another human being it is difficult to know if they are eating enough, sleeping enough, …
Adoption: Information for Families
Are you a birth parent considering an adoption plan for your baby? Do you have questions about how the adoption process works? Are you scared or worried about making a …
Adoption: Information for Professionals
Prospective and adoptive parents have required points of contact with physicians and adoption agencies during their home-study process and post adoptive check ins. These are critical points of contact that …
Let’s Talk: Resilience
Merriam Webster’s Definition of Resilience noun re·sil·ience | \ ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s \ 1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by …
Lets Talk: Navigating Diet and Fitness Culture – When Striving to be Healthy Becomes Unhealthy
The ‘healthy’ dilemma We live in a culture chalk-full of images and messages about how our bodies should look and how to best mold them into these ideals. Measuring ourselves …
Parenting an Anxious Child
One of the hardest things about parenting is the unexpected. There is no parenting manual for the most basic parenting skills and it becomes even more challenging when your child …
Let’s Talk: Pain and the Problem of Numbers
Our society really likes to measure things. How efficient are you? How successful are you? How many likes do you get? How much do you weigh? How many degrees do …
Transitioning to Summer, When You Have Kids
You know those significant events in your life that become that reference point for everything else? Like, “that happened after the accident?”, or “before I got married”, or “after the …