Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed, and medicated, adored, and ignored — but rarely, if ever, are they honored. -Karla McLaren I want to focus this blog on emotional reactivity. Emotional reactivity is when we feel angry, hurt or stressed out and we overreact or react impulsively. We’ll be discussing how it shows up when […]
Your Motherhood Mindset
Life is about being and becoming, not having, and getting. -Stephanie Seabrook Hedgepath I love Carol Dweck’s work on fixed and growth mindset. Think about areas in your own life as a mom where a fixed mindset tends to be more dominant versus when you can usually stay within a growth mindset. The following are […]
Criticism and Judgment in Motherhood
If you judge people you have no time to love them. -Mother Teresa The topics of criticism and judgment come up all the time in motherhood, and often start in our early postpartum experiences. This might show up as other people judging how you mother your child/ren (external influences) or this might show up as […]
Creating Emotionally Healthy Families
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. -Barbara Bush As a trained marriage and family therapist, I have a lot of education on healthy families and insight into how to help make family systems healthier if they are struggling. Making these changes within families become a reality can be […]
How Online Therapy can be Helpful to Moms during Pregnancy, Postpartum and throughout Motherhood
Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. -Shannon L. Alder As with most people in therapy field, I feel like everyone can benefit from therapy. I’m also a big proponent of therapists leading by example and […]
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