Why Everyone Should Have a Therapist
Stigmatizing attitudes towards mental health are widespread. It’s long past time to demystify and destigmatize Psychotherapy.
Advice You Can Trust
Resources for Moms from Experts
Social Media Influence for Body Positivity Parenting
The edited images filling your social media feed may be negatively impacting you and your health. Here are some accounts you should follow to bring more body positivity into your newsfeed.
HER Expert Panel Winter Roundtable
HER Health Collective roundtables provide an opportunity for us to bring our panel of experts together to discuss important issues that are relevant to mothers in our community. The topics discussed in this session include: Improving access to care – reaching low-income mothers and families, improve collaboration in the health and wellness industry (when and where to refer), changing societal conversations and the structure of an antiquated system.
We Asked, She Answered: Sex, Hormone Balancing, Nutrients & More
It’s not often that you get to sit down with a doctor who is trained in the trifecta of Family Medicine, Integrative medicine, and Functional medicine to ask her anything you want! Crissy and Cindi had this opportunity with Dr. Elizabeth Sierakowski. Together, they asked questions on topics affecting the health of moms such as hormone balancing, nutrients, supplements, doctors visits, inflammation, doctor patient relationships and more!
Using the Division of Responsibility to Feed Kids (and Yourself!)
A Registered Dietician explains the Division of Responsibility — a low pressure, high structure approach to feeding children that can take the pressure off parents and make mealtime enjoyable for the whole family.
Vaginitis: How Women May Unknowingly Be Making It Worse
Dr. Watson provides education on vaginitis and desquamative inflammatory vaginitis (DIV). She provides clarification on mistakes women often make about treating these conditions and what to consider if chronic vaginitis is experienced.
Relating After the Election
A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist shares how to embark on post-election healing and enjoying the holidays with friends and family who hold completely different political viewpoints from you.
Boost Energy Naturally with Biorhythm Support
Moms are no stranger to fatigue. Discover one doctor’s top six ways to be good stewards of our energy and boost energy levels naturally.
An Ounce of Prevention: Keeping up with Preventive Women’s Health Care
It is essential women continue to seek care for chronic medical conditions and preventive wellness during this unique time. Preventive health recommendations change over time as new evidence emerges.
Therapeutic Bottle Feeding
There are ways to approach bottle feeding that can mirror direct breastfeeding, so as to provide the maximum therapeutic value to bottle feeding.
Emotion Regulation in Chaotic Times
Emotion regulation is our ability to influence our own emotional experiences. These skills help keep our emotional systems healthy and functioning.
The Healing Art of Listening
The act of genuine listening can help us heal. Listening to another person’s story can actually help you heal your own story.
HER Expert Panel Fall Roundtable
HER Health Collective roundtables provide an opportunity for us to bring our panel of experts together to discuss important issues that are relevant to mothers in our community. The topics discussed in this session include: Diastasis Recti and common myths, Prolapse, Endometriosis, Perimenopause, and Self-Advocating when feeling dismissed by a provider.
Easy, No-Bake Energy Balls
Life is crazier than ever these days and occasionally you need a quick, healthy snack idea to fall back on.
10 Things to Say to Yourself During Exercise to Foster Body Liberation
It’s commonly known that exercise is good for us. It’s not so commonly talked about that exercise can be a source of shame and guilt for our bodies, especially for women.
An Intricate Dance: Finding Treatment and Support for Endometriosis
Endometriosis is estimated to affect between 10-20% of American women of childbearing age, yet it is often undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, or poorly managed.
Sex, Dating, and Love for Single Moms
Whether one is a single mom by chance or choice, life and love have gotten very complicated. There is a lot of conflicting advice out there about dating and sex as a single mom.
Intuitive Eating and Self-Care
In times of stress, our bodies are in fight or flight mode. When we have inadequate nutrition, this places even more stress on our bodies. How do we care for ourselves when we feel overwhelmed and exhausted and know that we are still far from getting back to “normal”?
A Detailed Discussion On Detox
Women are bombarded with information on detox. It is a modern day buzz word. Dr. Watson breaks it down for us and provides details on what happens in the body, why it’s important for women, common mistakes and low risk ways to detox.
Gut Feelings
The science of intuition and gut communication.
Nourishing Your Mind and Body in Stressful Times
It is more important than ever to create systems, tools, habits, and behaviors that will help nourish the body and brain.
PCOS: A Complex and Often Misunderstood Condition
Despite its high prevalence, PCOS often goes undiagnosed and is often misunderstood.
The Habit of Predicting the Future
It’s as if we use a predictive text feature in our brain. It’s challenging to see how things will play out without any assumptions or judgments of what’s coming next. But if we release the assumptions and judgements we may find that our future looks much brighter.
Demystifying Perimenopause
Perimenopause and Menopause are not the same. Dr. Watson explains the difference between the two terms, the changes occurring in the body during Perimenopause, and the different approaches used by professionals to ease symptoms.
Self-Improvement vs. Self-Acceptance
We are wired to want and need acceptance, love, and belonging. One of the single most important people to ever accept us… is us. But self-improvement is not the best way to get to self-acceptance, nor is withholding self-acceptance a good way to motivate us towards self-improvement.
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