Matrescence: The heroine's journey
Matrescence embodies the feelings, challenges and qualities of the life passage into motherhood.
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Essential Oil And Pregnancy Safety
Learn how to use aromatherapy safety during pregnancy for emotional and physical wellness.
What Are the Risk Factors for Postpartum Depression and Other Perinatal Mood Disorders?
Overview of the Risk Factors for Perinatal Mental Illness (saaay what – so many??) Have you ever wondered about what “causes” perinatal...
Book Review: Little Voices by Vanessa Lillie
A story of perinatal mental illness and recovery wrapped in a murder mystery.
Psychology of the Triple Goddess: Maiden, Mother and Matriarch
Women's mental health develops naturally through several phases in a lifetime.
Coconut Oil, Breastmilk and Lauric Acid
Motherhood pregnancy and breast-feeding are all universal and very, very personal experiences.
Breast-feeding Moms: Yummy Mocha Coconut Coffee Recipe
Make tasty organic mocha coffee latte at home!
BirthTouch® Fourth Trimester Plan
Did you know the first three months after childbirth are critical months for the emergent family?
Postpartum Depression Treatment Options
If you suffer from postpartum depression, please know that you do not need to suffer alone. Postpartum depression is treatable.
Women, Depression and Mothering
What has depression in women and the recent article about feminisim and mothering by the writer Erica Jong got to do with each other? We...
Good Enough Moms & Good Enough Families
Updated February 18, 2022 Funny how we live our lives is influenced by media and social change. The feminist movement strove to help...
Postpartum Depression & Marital Challenges
You might be wondering, “Why is my doctor singling ME out? Am I really experiencing postpartum depression? But I am a good mom, this...
What Have We Wrought in Our Oceans and On Our Earth?
I just read an article in Oprah’s September, 2010 magazine, by editor-in-chief Susan Casey. Ms. Casey wrote about she recently witnessed...
Women and Depression: Not Just An Hormonal Event
While it is truly wonderful that women’s moods, such as postpartum depression, from a biological perspective, are now being studied in...
Thanksgiving: An Antidote for Life in a Narcissistic World
As I shopped for and then began to prepare food for my family, I thought about this poem I have displayed in my counseling office. In my...
How much stress in pregnancy is too much?
Deep listening is deeply healing (istock/izusek)
Hire a postpartum doula to help in the fourth trimester
What is a postpartum doula? A postpartum doula is a woman hired to “mother the mother” after childbirth. Sometimes postpartum doulas say...
Maternal Mortality and Birth Trauma: A Call for Woman Centered Birth
Originally posted April 22, 2019. In my work as a perinatal psychotherapist, I have had the honor of hearing many women’s oral histories...
Expressive Art: Birth Trauma – Bead Your Story
Originally posted April 9, 2019. A traumatic birth can be physically and emotionally devastating. Social support for those going through...
Book Review: Are You There Alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates by Suzanne O’Malley
Originally posted February 26, 2019. Are You There Alone? is written by Suzanne O’Malley, an investigative reporter. She followed the...
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