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The Overstimulated Parent: Understanding Your Window of Tolerance
Feeling overstimulated, checked out, or just plain overwhelmed as a parent? This post breaks down the window of tolerance, a tool to help you understand how your nervous system responds to stress, and how to begin gently noticing when you're outside of it.
Pregnancy After Loss: How Do You Let Yourself Believe It’s Real?
Pregnancy after loss brings a wave of emotions: hope, fear, anxiety, and cautious joy. This post explores how to navigate the complicated experience of expecting again after miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal loss, and offers gentle strategies to support your nervous system along the way.
Mindfulness for Kids of All Ages: Simple strategies for toddlers, kids and teens to build emotional resilience.
Mindfulness isn’t just for adults, it’s a powerful tool for kids and teens too. In this post, I share simple, age-appropriate mindfulness strategies for toddlers, children, and adolescents to help build emotional regulation, resilience, and calm.
Breastfeeding Support, Formula, and the Real Postpartum Feeding Experience
Feeding your baby isn’t always picture-perfect, and it’s rarely one-size-fits-all. Whether you're breastfeeding, pumping, formula feeding, or doing some mix of everything, this post explores the real, messy, emotional journey of postpartum feeding. We talk nipple pain, triple feeds, flange sizing, spilled milk, and the invisible labor behind it all. However you're feeding your baby, you’re doing it right.
Postpartum Isn’t All Joy — And That’s Okay
Postpartum emotions are complex and you don’t have to navigate them alone. This blog explores the emotional highs and lows of new parenthood, including postpartum depression, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts. Learn how these experiences affect all kinds of families, including dads, LGBTQ+ parents, and adoptive families, and discover signs it might be time to reach out for support. Real talk, realistic self-care, and local resources inside.