Orofacial Myology: My Journey
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.
Advice You Can Trust
Resources for Moms from Experts
Top 5 Benefits of Massage During Pregnancy
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.
How to Make Food Choices that Serve You and Not Others
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.
Your Only Job When Your Child is Having a Meltdown
Meltdowns happen when your child is completely overwhelmed by emotion and it is different than a tantrum. Sometimes a tantrum can become a meltdown.
Inform Yourself to Receive the Best Care
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.
A Different Strategy for Meal Prepping
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.
Identifying Your Enneagram Type
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.
Honoring Yourself During the Holidays
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.
4 Ways to Reduce Holiday Mom Guilt
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.
Psychological Elements of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
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.
Should the Weak Be Made Strong?
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.
Is Your Relationship Firing on All 5 Cylinders?
Rather than just talking about the areas of sexual touch, Alyssa spends a minute on the kinds of touch that lead couples toward connection and erotic fulfillment.
Using Drama Therapy to Facilitate Healing and Growth
Paraphrasing from Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage and all men and women are merely players,” Barbara Kaynan, Licensed Drama Therapist, finds that is the best way to describe drama therapy. Barbara continues to explain how drama therapy is used to weave trauma-informed psychotherapy interventions with artistic modalities to facilitate individuals & communities toward healing & growth.
Navigating the Depths of Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a
serious condition that affects millions of women worldwide. Nicole Wallace delves into the intricacies of postpartum depression, its causes, symptoms, and available support systems.
Recognizing Intrusive Thoughts During the Perinatal Period
Intrusive thoughts are repetitive thoughts or images that a person may be experiencing of them causing harm to themselves or their babies.
Healthy Shame vs. Toxic Shame
Healthy shame says, I am me and I’m still a really great person, but here’s a way that I want to show up differently or better. Toxic Shame says, I am a terrible person, a terrible mom, a terrible woman, and I have not accomplished things in the way that I want to and it’s my fault.
Why We Shouldn’t Call Kids “Shy”
Most of us were raised to believe that being “shy” was an undesirable personality trait. Dr. Hilary Mandzik shares why we shouldn’t call Kids “shy” (& why “shy” behaviors are actually a GOOD thing!)
How to Practice Being More Present
Over time, our behaviors turn into habits and these habits make it hard for us to be in a state of awareness. Learn to be more present by using a noticing practice.
Optimizing Movement to Fight Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder of women of reproductive age, impacting 10% of women on average. Exercise is a superpower when fighting PCOS.
Gain a Deeper Understanding of Fertility Massage
Navigating fertility, whether you are just beginning, or have struggled for longer than you would like, is something that can carry a heavy emotional burden. Fertility massage is meant to be a relaxing and therapeutic addition on your fertility journey.
You’re More Than Your Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Occupational Therapists look at the whole person and how roles and routines impact lives. Few OT’s also work with pelvic floor dysfunction and how emotional and mental health also impacts physical health. Kyrsten shares her professional journey to becoming an Occupational Therapist specializing in pelvic floor therapy, and how it all stemmed from her personal experience.
What Are You Apologizing For?
Nicole Wallace specializes in working with women who are experiencing anxiety and depression symptoms. She frequently experiences women apologizing for having feelings or for the actions of others. She explores being overly apologetic and becoming more assertive.
Birth Plan 2.0: Building a Bigger Family & Better Birth Experience
Building a birth plan for subsequent children. There are considerations to talk through when preparing to bring another baby home.
Three Tips for Intuitive Eating
Christy Maloney, Registered Dietitian, and Owner of Enhanced Nutrition Associates discusses her top three tips for intuitive eating.
How to Start a Conversation
What we have found through research, specifically from the Gottman Institute, is that the first three minutes of a conversation, predicts how the conversation is going to go, and how it’s going to end. Alyssa Doberstein, MS, LMFT a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in couples & sex therapy and owner of Relational and Sexual Health Initiative, discusses the difference between what is referred to as a harsh startup and a soft startup.
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