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.
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.
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.
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!)