Perinatal Mental Health
Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts Sometimes
Perinatal mental health therapist Karen Kleiman has a phrase that I return to often: “Good moms have scary thoughts.” It’s the title of one of…
Reflections & Insights
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Anxiety
Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn: Understanding Your Nervous System’s Protection Responses
Before we talk about managing anxiety, it helps to understand what anxiety actually is at its root: a survival response. Understanding your nervous system's protection responses is one…
Perinatal Mental Health
Mom Rage: What It Is, Where It Comes From, and What Actually Helps
You love your child fiercely, completely, without question. And sometimes you want to scream. Sometimes you do scream. Sometimes the sound of your name being…
Perinatal Mental Health
How Parenthood Can Bring Up Old Trauma (And Why That’s Not a Flaw)
No one warns you that becoming a parent might crack something open in you. That holding your child, something so soft, so dependent, so utterly…
Perinatal Mental Health
Is It Postpartum Anxiety or Normal New Mom Worry?
You’re a few weeks or months into motherhood, and something feels off. Your heart races when the baby sleeps too long. You replay worst-case scenarios…
Trauma & Healing
What Is EMDR and How Can It Help Different Kinds of Trauma?
If you’ve been researching therapy for trauma, you’ve likely come across the term EMDR. Maybe someone recommended it to you. Maybe your therapist mentioned it.…
Trauma & Healing
Conditioned to Chaos: When Calm Feels More Dangerous Than the Storm
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being raised in chaos, not the loud, dramatic kind necessarily, but the kind where you never…
Relationships - Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Rebuilding Self-Trust After a Toxic Relationship
After a toxic relationship, whether with a partner, a parent, or anyone who held significant power in your life, one of the quietest casualties is…
Trauma & Healing
“Not Good Enough”: Understanding Relational Trauma and Where It Comes From
“I’m not good enough.” For some people, this is an occasional passing thought. For others, it’s a constant, low-level hum that lives beneath almost everything,…