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Postpartum Anxiety and Depression Warning Signs
1 in 5-7 women will experience a mood or anxiety disorder either during pregnancy or after birth.
Coping with Late-Term Pregnancy Loss/Stillbirth
Late-term pregnancy loss (stillbirth) can be a deeply traumatic experience. It’s made even more challenging when it’s met with silence – when we don’t talk about it.
The Most Radical Thing: Learn to love yourself
Practicing self-love in a world that makes it really, really hard to love yourself exactly as you are is a tough journey. I feel it.
Radical Acceptance
No life is free of problems. Though we may think there are people who never seem to face a tough situation, they do.
8 Mental Health Survival Tips for the 4th Trimester
Your mental health can take a hit after you’ve had a baby even if you don’t experience postpartum anxiety or depression.
Lessons Learned From Impact
When you have something shocking, like getting hit by a car, from behind, while walking back to the office after getting a cappuccino on a sunny day, you HAVE to pause. So, in this week’s newsletter I’m sharing a bit of what has been mulling around in my mind since the accident.
Should I still do New Year Resolutions during a pandemic?
Your entire wellbeing being hung on the notion that if you could only lose weight, be more fit and look more like the current ideal, you would finally have the experience of immense ease, joy, spaciousness, and happiness.
Love's Inherent Pain
I do not think I knew the depths of pain until I had children. Not the pain of labor, nursing or pulling my earrings. But the pain of love.
When Mindfulness Is Used to Harm
Our current societal mold tells us: You are never enough and always too much
Diet Culture’s Hold On Us
Rather, I’m switching gears to a more timely topic as we hit the stride in the new year. New Year’s resolutions/intentions/manifestations a LOT of time hover around being “healthy”. For a lot of people healthy = weight loss.
Why We Quit - The Science of Habits
You’ve heard probably many times that a habit takes 10 days. Or wait, 21 days. No wait, 60 days, to form. Habits do not take a certain amount of time. Habits take, well, habit.
How to Prepare for a COVID Winter
We are all probably used to Michigan winters - the cold, wind, snow and the early sunsets - but we’ve not lived through a Michigan winter in the middle of a pandemic.
Calming Down
How many times have you heard someone say “calm down”? Even better, how many times have you uttered those exact words to yourself or someone that you love? Oh, if it were only that simple! Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way.
Dealing with Disappointment
We all experience disappointment, no matter who you are, or how foolproof you think your plan is. It’s a fact of life, and no one is immune.
The Brain-Gut Connection: A Connection to Consider When Experiencing any Mood Disorder
Symptoms of anxiety and depression and symptoms of poor gut-health often co-exist.
Mental Health: Ending the Stigma
The stigma attached to mental illness and mental health issues can be just as, if not more damaging than its reality.
Healing After a Miscarriage
If you are reading this post, you’ve likely experienced a miscarriage. I want to express my heartfelt compassion for the loss of your baby.
How to Stay Positive, Motivated, and at Peace While Facing Negativity
Right now, there is a lot of negativity. We know that. There are conflicts and headlines that can ignite even the most zen person’s anger. Even as someone who tries to be positive, I too have felt depressed.
Chronic Pain Self Management Strategies
While there are many different types of chronic pain, there are also many different strategies for coping with chronic pain.
TGIF | One in Four Women Experience Depression in Her Lifetime
I want to normalize something. I want to normalize depression.
So often we feel like we’re supposed to be happy all the time. We feel ashamed when we are not smiling, joyful and energetic. It’s this shame that usually leads us to instead of asking for help, push down feelings, muscle through and silently suffer.
I have worked with hundreds of teens, women and men who are experiencing depression but have trouble naming it because depression feels so stigmatizing. And once I help them finally name it, they feel so much more relief.