Depression During a High-Risk Pregnancy or in the NICU May Not Be Depression At AllWe know that women experiencing a high-risk pregnancy are at higher risk for antepartum depression than women experiencing a low-risk pregnancy. And that the...
When You Heal from Pregnancy or Birth Trauma, Your Children BenefitDid you know healing is contagious? It's physiologically impossible to keep the benefits of trauma healing to yourself! Here's what I mean: Living with unres...
This is Trauma: When You Feel Angry and YellWhen we provoke an animal and corner it until it cannot move, what do we expect it will do? It will attack, right? And we think, "Well of course it did that....
131: Comparing and Justifying Prevent HealingDo you feel that you deserve to heal and feel better on your fertility journey? Do you feel like you deserve to be a mother and experience a healthier pregna...
Psychosomatic Symptoms During Fertility Treatments, Pregnancy and Postpartum: What They Are and Are "She told me my pain was psychosomatic," a client told me. "I got so angry. How dare she tell me my symptoms are in my head? I fired that doctor immediately....
This is Trauma: When It's Hard to Stick to a Healthy DietMost of us know generally how to eat healthy. We can even look at the last 72 hours of our life and find moments when we could have chosen healthier food opt...
This is Trauma: Micromanaging & Difficulty Trusting Others to Do What You Could DoBeing on top of your healthcare is tremendously important. I work with my private clients closely on how to prepare for appointments, track traveling embryos...
124: 5 Myths About Fertility, Pregnancy or Trauma HealingI’ve talked to many women from many backgrounds with many complications. These women are all tied together by experiencing trauma on their family-building jo...
This is Trauma: When You Feel Down and Like You Live in a FogThis is a surprising one for a lot of people. Most of the time, when we think of trauma, we think hyperarousal, overwhelm, amped-upness. And for many it is. ...
This is Trauma: When Mourning Your Loss(es) Brings No ReliefLet's start with this truth: we tend to overpathologize grief. Our culture, our community and health professionals, we all do it. We want it to get better, w...
This is Trauma: Feeling Broken and Ashamed of Your Body on the Family-Building JourneyAlmost every client I work with comes to me with this underlying feeling of brokenness. Whether they have experienced (or are currently experiencing) inferti...
This Is Trauma - When You Feel IndecisiveTwo 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 some options of thin...
This Is Trauma: When You Need to Stay Busy & Slowing Down Feels ImpossibleI once worked with a client after her micropreemie came home from the NICU. Her OBGYN referred her to me thinking she had postpartum anxiety. My client cou...
This Is Trauma : When Joy Feels ScaryOne of the hardest lessons I learned after a long road of infertility, loss , high-risk pregnancy, preterm delivery and months in the NICU is that it's not o...
What to Do When You Have Postpartum ComplicationsPostpartum depression is the number one complication of childbirth (more common than any physical health complications, including hemorrhage!). I believe tha...
Maternal Mental Health Is More About Trauma Than Depression or AnxietyYesterday 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 health wrong. I'll ad...
A Baby Does Not Heal The Wounds of InfertilityOver the many years my husband and I went through the rings of fire of primary & secondary infertility, we had the honor of meeting so many other couples who...
