Pregnancy and postpartum are both times of immense hormonal change. I didn’t know much about hormones — as is common with a lot of women — and so my curiosity [and un-comfortability, let’s be honest] gave me the impetus to learn more.
This research led me to the topic of cycle tracking. And what I discovered rocked me to my core: essential information that I somehow never knew about.
Read MoreLast month, I discovered — ahem, fully immersed myself Into — the world of sourdough bread baking.
...How 2020 of me, right?!
I’ve always enjoyed being creative, but it wasn’t until after I started sourdough bread baking that I realized how little I have been able to physically output creatively this season.
Read MoreI believe that American culture has historically failed at both celebration and grief.
I have to wonder if this is similar to the American philosophy of trauma. What I mean by this is that I feel like we have — very incorrectly — believed that in order for trauma to ‘classify’ as trauma, we have to have experienced a massive tsunami with ghastly effects, a war with devastating PTSD to show for it……
Read MoreFor so long, there has been an unnecessary + cryptic silence behind the art of therapy, as well as the therapist themselves.
By no means am I here to the remove the inherent mystery that organically exists within the therapeutic process; rather I am here to make you feel a little less alone — because isn’t that what we all want, really?
Read MoreWow, what a ride. Did you ever think parenting would be this much of a rollercoaster — biologically, psychologically, socially, spiritually? Your world has begun shifting dramatically ever since you first learned you were pregnant, and it feels as though it’s been shifting at an even more rapid pace these days. You’re finding it hard to determine which way is up and which way is down, and maybe that’s okay.
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