What to Do About a Postpartum Identity Crisis
Everything you need to know about a postpartum identity crisis: what it is, why it happens, and how to manage it.
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Anxiety After a Miscarriage Is Totally Normal
What you need to know about anxiety after a miscarriage: why it happens, how to know if you have an anxiety disorder, and tips for coping
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How to Know if You’re Experiencing a Panic Attack
What you need to know about panic attacks, including why they happen, how they’re different from anxiety attacks, and how to cope
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Do I Have Seasonal Depression?
Ah, those summer evenings, when you can leave the office and spend three or four hours basking in the evening sun before winding down for the night… During winter, those days feel like a distant memory, and if your response to the change in seasons is particularly strong, you might wonder if you have seasonal depression.
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How to Be More Assertive and Get More Support
Whether it’s at work, in the classroom, or in our personal lives, women have an assertiveness problem – not surprising when you acknowledge that most of us have been raised to be considerate of others ahead of ourselves. But did you know that you can actually learn how to be more assertive? It just takes some practice, and it’s worth the effort.
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All About Birth Trauma and Birth Trauma Therapy Options
If your birth experience didn’t go the way you planned, you might wonder whether you had birth trauma – but what does that mean? Learn more about birth trauma and birth trauma therapy in this post.
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Yes, Postpartum Rage is a Thing: Signs, Symptoms & Treatment
If you’ve ever blown up at your partner over something you later realize is a pretty small deal, you might wonder: is postpartum rage a thing? We’ve all heard of postpartum depression, and many of us have even wondered if we have it, but surely anger is a wildly different emotion from sadness, right?
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When Postpartum Intrusive Thoughts Take Over
It’s no secret that the postpartum period is tough: the sleep deprivation, the feeding schedule, the trying-to-keep-this-delicate-creature-alive. But nobody talks about the intrusive thoughts that make it all the harder.
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Parenting With Generational Trauma
When we first become parents, we all go through a whirlwind of fantasies and plans for the future. We talk to our partners about our values, figure out what kind of parents we want to be, set out the traditions we want to start with our kids… it’s all fairy tales and dreams. But generational trauma can ruin all that.
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How to Manage Postpartum Body Image Issues
Between recovering from giving birth, feeding your baby, and adjusting to new parenthood, your postpartum body image is likely nonexistent for a while. During the whirlwind of those first weeks and months after your baby arrives on the scene, it can be all too easy to forget you even have a body – you clothe yourself for warmth and function, shower as an act of desperation, and rarely look in the mirror.
But all too soon, you begin to notice your body again. How different it feels; how it doesn’t fit in your old clothes; how little it belongs to you now that it’s created and birthed another person… It’s a lot to deal with, and it’s understandable if you just want to live in oversized sweats and avoid your reflection for as long as possible.
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