Therapy vs Coaching for Moms
You know you need some kind of support. You are just not sure what kind. Therapy sounds serious. Coaching sounds like something for people who have their lives mostly together and just want to optimize. Neither description quite fits where you are, and so you have been sitting with the question without acting on it. […]
Postpartum Checklist for Mental Health
Postpartum mental health is not a single condition. It is a spectrum of experiences that can range from the baby blues that most new mothers feel in the first two weeks, to postpartum depression and anxiety, to less commonly known conditions like postpartum OCD and postpartum psychosis. Knowing what to watch for, in yourself or […]
ADHD & Emotional Regulation
If you have ADHD, you already know that it is not just about attention. It is about how you feel things, how fast those feelings arrive, how intense they are, and how hard it is to bring them back down once they have spiked. Emotional dysregulation is one of the most disruptive and least discussed […]
Working Mom Overwhelm
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that belongs to working moms. It is not the same as being tired from one demanding thing. It is the exhaustion of being responsible for two significant, ongoing demands simultaneously, with very little buffer between them and very little space to recover from either. You are not imagining […]
How to Ask for Help as a Mom
Most moms are not great at asking for help. Not because they are proud or stubborn, though sometimes those things are part of it. But because asking for help as a mother runs headlong into a set of deeply held beliefs about what a good mother does, what strength looks like, and what it means […]
Infertility Emotional Stages
Infertility is one of those experiences that is hard to explain to someone who has not been through it. From the outside, it looks like a medical situation. From the inside, it is a grief process that touches almost every part of your life, your sense of self, your relationship, your relationship with hope, and […]
Identity Loss After A Baby
Before the baby, you knew who you were. Not perfectly, nobody does, but you had a sense of yourself. Your interests, your rhythms, the things you cared about, the way you moved through the world. That sense of yourself felt reasonably stable. Then you had a baby, and somewhere in the months that followed, that […]
Sleep Deprivation & Anxiety
You already know you are tired. What you might not know is how directly and significantly the sleep deprivation you are running on is contributing to the anxiety, the overwhelm, the emotional reactivity, and the sense that everything is harder than it should be. Sleep is not optional maintenance. It is a core biological need, […]
Postpartum Rage
You snapped at your partner over nothing. You screamed into a pillow. You felt a wave of fury so sudden and so intense that it scared you a little. And then came the guilt, because you are supposed to be in love with your new baby, supposed to be tired but blissful, supposed to feel […]
ADHD Mom Daily Routine
The advice for building a daily routine as a mom with ADHD usually sounds like this: wake up at the same time every day, write a to-do list, use a planner, and stick to the schedule. And if you have ADHD, you already know exactly how that goes. You make the list. You buy the […]