This is Trauma

Calming Down is Not the Same as Regulating

Calming down is not taking your fight with your partner into your meeting at work. Calming down is doing what you need to not yell at...

When Your Health Feels Like a Bingo Game

Ever feel like your health feels like a bingo card? You just keep racking up more diagnoses, more problems. Just as quickly, you're...

When Trauma Affects Hormones

I had been working with her for a few weeks, long enough to be able to hear her voice when I read her emails. "I've literally never in my...

Why Making Decisions About Trying to Conceive After Loss or Trauma is So Hard

I recorded a podcast interview recently (episode to be published) where I shared with the host why I like to talk about trauma &...

This is Trauma: When You Feel Like You Don't Deserve

Do you believe you deserve to heal from fertility/pregnancy/birth trauma? The answer may seem really simple and obvious. You might...

Depression During a High-Risk Pregnancy or in the NICU May Not Be Depression At All

We know that women experiencing a high-risk pregnancy are at higher risk for antepartum depression than women experiencing a low-risk...

When You Heal from Pregnancy or Birth Trauma, Your Children Benefit

Did you know healing is contagious? It's physiologically impossible to keep the benefits of trauma healing to yourself! Here's what I...

This is Trauma: Feeling Slow, Hopeless and Down

We often associate alarms, sirens & activation of the body to run or fight as a trauma response, but there is another that is less...

How Do You Know You've Healed from Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth Trauma?

This is the most common question when it comes to healing from fertility, pregnancy and birth trauma. When will it be over? When will I...

This is Trauma: When You Feel Responsible for Managing Others' Feelings

Did you know? Trauma survivors have a superpower: being able to read your surroundings and read people really well. When you're living...

This is Trauma: When Anxiety Continues Despite Treatment

This post is one that is near and dear to my heart because of how often I see this play out with women in my personal and professional...

This is Trauma: Avoiding What Remind You of Infertility, Your High-Risk Pregnancy or Delivery

There's a misconception about trauma healing that when you heal from fertility-, pregnancy- or birth trauma, you will go back to all the...

This is Trauma: When You Feel Angry and Yell

When 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...

131: Comparing and Justifying Prevent Healing

Do 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...

This is Trauma: When It's Hard to Stick to a Healthy Diet

Most 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...

128: Healing After Pregnancy & Infant Loss

There are many nuances to grief. The loss of a child is extremely painful grief, but you have to trust that your body knows how to heal...

125: The Truth About Fertility Trauma When You're Trying to Conceive

Fertility trauma is happening all around us. It’s a huge part of the journey when you’re trying to conceive. Today’s show discusses why...

This is Trauma: Micromanaging & Difficulty Trusting Others to Do What You Could Do

Being on top of your healthcare is tremendously important. I work with my private clients closely on how to prepare for appointments,...

124: 5 Myths About Fertility, Pregnancy or Trauma Healing

I’ve talked to many women from many backgrounds with many complications. These women are all tied together by experiencing trauma on...

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....