Breastfeeding is a natural and profound act where a mother nourishes her newborn, showcasing the body’s incredible ability to support new life. Here’s an enlightening dive into the anatomy and physiology of breastfeeding, which might just make you feel like you possess a superpower by the end of this post!
Over years of study and helping clients, Melanie realized the root cause of people’s health issues is nervous system dysfunction, especially people with gut related issues, which has led her to become an expert on the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is an important contributor to getting into a relaxed state.
The most influential person in your child’s language development is YOU! Children learn most effectively from those they trust and love—their caregivers.
Welcome to the world of sleep regressions – a phase that can leave even the most seasoned parents feeling like they’re back to square one in the sleep department. Let’s dive into the mysterious realm of sleep regressions and unravel the reasons behind them, so that you are equipped with strategies to navigate this challenging phase like a pro.
Aromatherapy is a holistic healing treatment that uses natural plant extracts to promote health and well-being. It’s believed that essential oils extracted from plants have therapeutic properties that can affect your emotions, mood, and overall mental state.
When you become a parent (whether birthing parent or not), your brain primes for learning. While you might be a little more sleep deprived, you also become more attuned to the feelings and needs of others, and you gain significant practice in a number of skills that are vital to leadership.
Dr. Elizabeth Sierakowski & Nikki Fowler, nurse practitioner, of Essential Health talk about empowerment, for hormone balance. They share tools that you can take for your own strong, healthy foundation, before you would seek counsel for more advanced hormone balancing.
Breastfeeding is a rewarding journey, but it comes with its share of challenges, including clogged milk duct. Let’s explore updated research and how to navigate this common breastfeeding issue.
The postpartum period can be a rollercoaster of emotions, and music can help you express and modulate your mood…Music is also a way to share joy with a child.
Our bodies want to heal, and they have a lot of wisdom. It’s about knowing what to do to support so that you can get out of the way of your own healing and be your own healer.
It makes sense that we want to use the tools that help us see ourselves more clearly to also see our children through that same clarity by using the Enneagram. When is it okay to type kids?
Something to consider is your own parenting style and how it aligns with how you parent with food. Because of diet culture’s influence on how we feed our children, it’s not uncommon for a parent to approach food in a way that is different from their own parenting style.
Kristin Baker is an Executive coach, and co-founder of a startup called LUMO, whose mission is to help companies support and retain their working parents. She shares the research backed phenomenon of micro actions for moms to WIN at caring for themselves.
Let’s dig into the reasons behind pre-dawn wake-up calls and explore some solutions to make mornings a bit less “Ugh!” and more, “Okay, I got this!”
Whether you realize it or not, each tiny muscle, ligament, and bone within the face and oral cavity are connected to the rest of your body and affect your everyday health.
Pregnancy massage, also known as prenatal massage, has gained popularity as a safe and effective way to alleviate some of the physical and emotional stresses associated with pregnancy. There are numerous benefits of pregnancy massage and important considerations to remember for expecting mothers.
Christy Maloney, Registered Dietician talks with us and shares tips on how to focus on your needs and not cater to the demands around you.
Meltdowns happen when your child is completely overwhelmed by emotion and it is different than a tantrum. Sometimes a tantrum can become a meltdown.
Not every pelvic floor therapist looks and treats the pelvic floor in the same way. Some just look at the physical aspects of the pelvic floor dysfunction. Kyrsten encourages you to seek out a therapist that is right for you. She provides a questionnaire to help you find a pelvic floor therapist that will treat
in a holistic way so that you can have the most optimal healing.
We have a different strategy for meal prepping. One of our favorite benefits is that meal prepping even just one thing can take something off your plate for the week.
Finding your dominant Enneagram Type can be straight forward, and for other folks, feel like a real challenge. Erin shares tips on how to identify your your type within the 27 distinct archetypes available within the model.
Creating your own values for the season can help you recenter yourself when you get pulled by competing demands and expectations of others. Here are some goals to keep in mind to shift your experience this holiday season.
At holiday time, are you running around like crazy keeping multiple to do lists, not sleeping well, and already feeling some anxiety around the holidays? Dr. Charryse Johnson, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist discusses reducing mom guilt during the holidays.
Our pelvic bowl or pelvic space is the storage house of all of our unprocessed emotion, trauma events, and things that have happened to us. Things like birth trauma, sexual trauma, sexual repression, even past surgeries or fears, can really start to come up and hold tension in our body, which results in pain and discomfort.
Without understanding your child’s true innate gifts, you remain in a constant cycle of trying to fix their weaknesses, which leads to more stress and frustration for both you and your child.
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