The postpartum doula fills multiple roles in emotional support, babycare, and helps with light household chores. But, a postpartum doula doesn’t provide medical advice or assistance.

Throughout this series, we have explored how a woman’s emotional health and perinatal mental health is shaped not only by hormones, but by the ongoing interaction between brain biology and lived experience. As explored in our discussion of brain biology and mood before pregnancy, the limbic system continuously integrates hormonal signals with lived experience — and that integration continues into the postpartum period. The limbic system — the brain’s emotional center — doe

Many people in my psychotherapy practice struggle with coming to terms with childhood sexual abuse. Flashes of their silent past and the effects of the splitting of the self in order to survive, intrude on their present day life, so they come for support. I’m humbled to witness their heroic, creative work through their inner labyrinth of pain and love gradually towards integration and wholeness. When I met Ms. Jane Rowan on Twitter, her lyrical book title, The River of F

Originally posted January 4, 2013. As you go through your divorce, do you think you are acting out your unconscious hurts and anger on...