Miscarriage: You’re No Longer Alone
Dr. Aragona openly explains miscarriage and what happens in a woman’s body when a pregnancy is not viable.
Body Image and Body Diversity: How Can We Apply it to Ourselves?
As a society, we are beginning to look at the ways we historically have had a Eurocentric view of beauty and the thin ideal. As a culture, we are moving toward being more accepting of people with of all bodies and sizes. And yet, we get stuck turning that expanded view of beauty inward.
Managing Social Anxiety as a Mom
You know that mom that you’ve come across a few times who seems a little awkward, you’re a little unsure about who she is and whether or not you kind of want to bring her in. Guess what? She’s not stuck up. She’s anxious.
The Art of Sustainable Self-care in Motherhood
We need to understand that the title “mother” is not synonymous with “martyr.” There are so many ways that sustainable, consistent, self-care can improve your life and the lives of those around you.
4 Tips to Manage Back To School Anxiety
August is an exciting time for parents with school aged children. However, along with that excitement can come anxiety as students prepare to return to the classroom.
A Functional Medicine Back to School Checklist
Each child has unique needs to optimize their mental and physical wellness. However, there are several general recommendations that many children and families can benefit from. Here are some fundamentals for your “Back to School” checklist specific to academic performance.
Is My Period Normal?
Dr. Erika is a Family Medicine Physician who says that many of her patients are so embarrassed to ask questions about their period. Why are women embarrassed to talk about what happens every single month for several decades of their life? In this interview, Dr. Aragona breaks it down into what’s normal and what’s not normal. Because a lot of women have no idea.
Four Mindset Shifts to Support Your Health Journey
In her nutritional practice, Katherine spends a lot of time on the topic of mindset shifts and helping people think a little differently. Mindset and our language that’s involved with it, meaning how we really believe and think about it, is a super important piece of the process. Katherine shares four mindset shifts that she focuses on with her clients.
The Mindset of Returning to Fitness: In Postpartum and Beyond
There can be a lot of unknowns when returning to movement and fitness whether you are postpartum, or you are establishing/reestablishing a movement routine beyond postpartum. Jenna discusses the need of feeling what it’s like to ‘not be ready yet’ in order to understand what it feels like ‘to be ready.’
Building a Holistic Toolkit for Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Parenthood Part 2: Physical Support
They say it takes a village, but how do you go about gathering one? Consider this your checklist. In part 2 of our series, we’re breaking down the potential members of your care team who can help you feel physically healthy, strong, and supported.
Defining and Learning About Food Neutrality
In this interview, we discuss the benefits to embracing food neutrality. It is a mindset that helps your overall relationship with food. Christy Maloney details the concept, how it helps and the easiest way to start embracing this mindset.
Postpartum Care, Battling Burnout & Barriers to Care: A Roundtable Discussion
The second HER Health Collective Roundtable of 2022 discusses how mothers can best navigate the postpartum period, who should be a part of that postpartum care support team, how parents from different socioeconomic backgrounds can access the care they need, different approaches to finding balance in life (particularly as a parent), and how to approach difficult parenting decisions when overwhelmed by information from outside sources.
Keeping Your Little One with Food Allergies Safe & Thriving
Every three minutes, a food allergy reaction sends someone to the emergency room. So how do we keep your little one safe, while still ensuring that they are able to take part in social events, eat out at restaurants, and thrive developmentally?
3 Things You Might Be Neglecting In Your Marriage
Are you at a turning point in your marriage? Licensed Professional Counselor, Nicole Wallace shares three strategies to help foster deeper connection and positive regard with your partner.
Diastasis Recti: What You Need to Know?
Diastasis recti is the separation of the two sides of the rectus abdominis muscle, or the six pack muscle. While common for women to develop during pregnancy, it is something that can be treated.
Three Ways to Lesson the Risk of Burnout in Motherhood
A fundamental to burnout is respecting your bandwidth, the energy and mental capacity you have to get things done. It turns out that kids have a major impact on that. Erayna shares three things that she has either learned or that has been reinforced about mitigating burnout.
How to Manage Your Thoughts When You Can’t Get It All Done
Over the years, Dr. Charryse Johnson has worked with dozens, maybe hundreds of moms and there’s one statement that every one of them has made. “There’s not enough time, and when I don’t get everything done that I truly desire, I feel like a failure.” That’s all or none thinking and Dr. Charryse is going to teach you that there’s another way!
Lithium: A Little Goes a Long Way in Cognitive and Emotional Health
Supplementing with low-dose lithium aims to support the body’s daily nutritional need for lithium. This is very different from the dosage of lithium as medication. Lithium has numerous health benefits, particularly for brain health and overall mood.
Dismantling Mainstream Media’s Nutritional Messages
Mainstream media sends us a particular message about nutrition, Katherine shares a couple of those messages that we seem to hear quite frequently from the mainstream media and helps to give us some ways that we can think about nutrition a little bit differently.
2022 Expert Roundtable – Winter
HER Experts discuss so-called “mom brain”, and also explore aging, changes in hormones, and the effects our stage of life can have on our overall health. The experts discuss how these issues impact a mother as well as her children and ways to navigate these challenges.
Dismantling Snapback Culture in Motherhood
Snapback culture says that after having a baby, a woman should somehow and immediately “snapback” into her previous body or possibly even a “better” (read: thinner and/or more toned) body. It is rooted in diet culture and patriarchy. It’s time to dismantle snapback culture.
How to Get Your Kids to Eat More Vegetables?
Many children struggle to eat enough vegetables every day, and yet as parents we know how important they are for growing children to consume. Here are five ways to encourage your child to consume more veggies!
Three Mindsets That Keep Us From Saying No
Did you know that your biggest asset isn’t time, it’s energy? Dr. Charryse Johnson explains how important it is to practice saying one word in order to reclaim your energy. She also discusses the mindsets that stand in the way. Never fear! Dr. Johnson gives two action steps you can start now if saying no is difficult for you.
The Mindset Around Prenatal and Postpartum Fitness
Fitness Professional and 2022 HER Expert Panelist, Jenna Somich discusses the two sides of the spectrum when it comes to the mindset around prenatal and postpartum fitness. Jenna discusses the answer to striking a balance.
Building a Holistic Toolkit for Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Parenthood
When it comes to pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood, it’s necessary to take a whole-person approach to health and wellbeing. However, until we see large-scale institutional change, mothers must be armed with the knowledge they need to seek the care they deserve for their whole selves.
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