PCOS: A Complex and Often Misunderstood Condition
Despite its high prevalence, PCOS often goes undiagnosed and is often misunderstood.
Advice You Can Trust
Resources for Moms from Experts
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.
Wait, There are Unhealthy Reasons to Workout?
Working out is widely accepted as healthy, no matter what. However, that is not always the case. In fact, there are some situations where exercising might not be a healthy choice at all.
Postpartum Pain With Intercourse
Pain with intercourse is quite common in the postpartum period, but should not be thought of as “normal” or unavoidable.
Fostering Authenticity in Our Children for Healthy Relationships
How to model elements of a healthy romantic relationship to help your children build a solid foundation for long-lasting love.
Feeding Your Kids This Summer
A feeding structure that drowns out the “shoulds,” numbers, and external rules and allows you to listen to your internal messages and help shape your days this summer.
HER Expert Panel Summer 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: Diet Trends, How Food Affects Us, Supplementation, Fasting, and Dietary Restriction.
Your Safety Re-Entry Plan
Megan provides ways to think in terms of your family’s personal COVID response plan so you can make the next right choice for your family based on the information available.
Performance Anxiety In Women
Performance anxiety has been used historically to refer to male sexual functioning. Women can have stress, fear, or worry around a number of sexual dynamics. Lauren discusses problems that manifest as a result of sexual anxiety and what can help.
Understanding and Managing PMS
Dr. Watson defines PMS and explains what happens in our bodies when it’s that time of the month. She advises how we can ease symptoms and provides different approaches to managing our body’s response to the hormone shifts.
Pelvic Health 101
Knowledge of the importance of pelvic health is on the rise, but many people still haven’t heard of pelvic therapy. Even those who are aware it exists often aren’t clear on what it is or how it can help. Dr. Lindsay Moses shares how participating in Pelvic Therapy can be life changing.
Introduction to Intuitive Eating
Through her work as a Dietician, Anna Lutz was introduced to the concept of Intuitive Eating. This approach has gained traction over the past couple of years. Anna provides an introduction to the principles of Intuitive Eating and the need to change our culture around how we eat.
What Lactation Consultants Want You to Know
Lactation consultants want you to know these things because they want you to enjoy your infant feeding relationship.
Skip the Scale at the Doctor’s Office
Though it is assumed by most that checking the number on the scale is necessary for our medical care, it’s time to question this assumption. Dr. Metz shares research based information supporting skipping the scale.
Honoring Your Body Through Movement
HER Self-Care Series:
This one hour flow led by HER Expert, Dr. Lindsay Mumma is safe for both pregnant and postpartum women. Beginning with a focus on breathwork and then progressing to the innate functional movements our bodies were designed to do, this hour session will leave you with a wealth of knowledge about your body.
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Quarantine: The Perfect Time for a Postural Reset
Lack of full breathing can impact our energy, mood, core stability, and even cardiovascular health. Dr. Mumma teaches you how to breathe on purpose.
Art Therapy…Tell Me More
Art therapy is based on the intrinsic healing properties of the arts.
A Roadmap to Building Emotional Courage
Experiencing the full range of emotions is actually normal and healthy.
How to Simplify Life with Meal Mapping
Instead of trying to come up with a complicated meal plan, Katherine often suggest using what she calls a MEAL MAP.
Coronavirus Pandemic: Managing Stress and Anxiety During Social Distancing
Local women’s health experts discuss the skills mothers can use to navigate the current COVID-19 pandemic and how they can manage the anxiety and stress of social distancing.
Three Tools for Battling Burnout
It’s very important to understand that the root cause of burnout is giving more than we have to give.
Intuitive Movement
Intuitive movement is done with attention, purpose, self-compassion, acceptance, awareness, and joy. It’s focused on the process of becoming more connected, healthier, and stronger.
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