This is Trauma: When You Feel Down and Like You Live in a Fog
This is a surprising one for a lot of people. Most of the time, when we think of trauma, we think hyperarousal, overwhelm, amped-upness....
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This Is Trauma - When You Feel Indecisive
Two days after my son was born, my husband was making lunch before our NICU visit. He asked me what I wanted. "I don't know." He gave me...
This Is Trauma: When You Need to Stay Busy & Slowing Down Feels Impossible
I once worked with a client after her micropreemie came home from the NICU. Her OBGYN referred her to me thinking she had postpartum...
This Is Trauma: When Joy Feels Scary
One of the hardest lessons I learned after a long road of infertility, loss , high-risk pregnancy, preterm delivery and months in the...
How Much Do You Change After Infertility, Loss, High-Risk Pregnancy and Birth Trauma?
After having gone through infertility, a life-threatening loss, a very high-risk pregnancy, an extremely preterm delivery & months in the...
What to Do When You Have Postpartum Complications
Postpartum depression is the number one complication of childbirth (more common than any physical health complications, including...
Maternal Mental Health Is More About Trauma Than Depression or Anxiety
Yesterday I saw a post by my friend and colleague that resonated so much, I knew I had to say something. We are getting maternal mental...
114: Partner's Role in Decreasing Postpartum Depression
We all know how challenging and traumatic a stay in the NICU can be for new parents, but NICU isn’t the most common postpartum difficulty...
111: For the Type-A Person
There's a negative connotation placed on being Type-A. While there are more health issues that are tied to being Type-A (especially...
The Postpartum Complication We Need to Be Talking About: Postpartum Rage
Have you ever heard of postpartum rage? Most women I have spoken with say they haven't heard about it, but when they find out what it...
109: What Every Woman Going Through a High-Risk Pregnancy Needs to Hear
For how much I'm supportive of motivational messages and maintaining hope, there is a downside to messages that we say far too often to...
105: Surviving the First Few Weeks of New Motherhood
Having a newborn home is wonderful...but so much harder than mothers expect or prepare themselves for. On this episode, I speak with...
098: Why Labels Matter
The words and labels that you use during your family-building challenges matter. They inform what important anchor points define your...
097: Stop Telling Me to Get Over My Grief
We have to stop playing the Loss Olympics. Too often we undercut and minimize our own grief to our own detriment, and laying the...
096: Essentials and Gifts for NICU Parents
The NICU is an overwhelming, scary place that feels like a world away from the rest of the world. Whether you're expecting to spend time...
093: Dealing with the Loss of a Child
Losing a child, no matter how far along in the pregnancy you were or how old the child was, is one of the hardest experiences a parent...
090: How to Get Out Of Your Head
Do you feel like a victim to your anxiety at times? Today’s show will help you leave the overwhelm behind, walk around the wall, and find...
088: Storytelling as a Way to Heal from Trauma
If you’ve experienced reproductive trauma, then you know the real, raw side of family-building---and you know that it’s not always pretty...
087: A New Approach to Postpartum Depression
What is depression? What causes it? We are talking about everything related to depression, especially as it relates to fertility and...
079: Lean into Trauma to Heal Postpartum
Thousands of women experience pregnancy and/or birth trauma every year. Without proper support, resources and information, trauma is...
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