6 DBT Skills to Nurture Your Mental Health During the Holiday Rush Lots of us get flustered during the busy holiday season. And, if you’re already coping with a mental health challenges such as grief, depression, anxiety, PTSD or bipolar disorder, keeping up with healthy lifestyle choices will absolutely support your mental health. When I started thinking about cooking for Thanksgiving, although I love my family, I started to feel really irritable. I just really didn’

Infant massage is a great way to create an oasis of calm time with your baby. It helps promote bonding and calm both mom and baby. Studies show that infant massage decreases stress hormones (in both Mom & baby),

Perinatal mental health is deeply shaped by how the nervous system adapts to pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum transition.

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

Originally posted October 22, 2012. Prenatal Yoga: A Mindbody Practice to Benefit Your Pregnancy As a pregnant woman looking looking for...

Originally posted October 15, 2012. Benedetta Leuner, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State University, released a new study on Saturday, 10/13/2012, during a talk at Neuroscience 2012, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, in New Orleans. Using rats, Leuner and her colleagues study the effects of pregnancy on the brain. In a study released last year, Leuner and her colleagues found that the brains of unstressed new rat mothers had a