What is Yoga, Really?
Most people think yoga is about flexibility. It isn't.
The biggest changes often happen long before you ever touch your toes. In our newest blog, we're exploring why therapists are talking more about yoga, what your nervous system has to do with your stress, and how mindful movement can help you feel more grounded, present, and connected to yourself. Because stress doesn't just live in your mind… it lives in your body, too.
The Quiet Loneliness of Motherhood
Everyone talks about the sleepless nights, the diapers, and the endless to-do lists that come with motherhood. What people don't talk about enough is the loneliness.
You can deeply love your children, cherish your family, and still feel like something is missing. Between caring for everyone else and keeping life moving, many moms find themselves longing for meaningful adult connection and friendships that extend beyond playdates and small talk.
In this blog, we're exploring the quiet loneliness that so many mothers experience, why it happens, and what we can do to create the kind of community and connection moms truly need.
Notes From A Therapist Who Is Also In Therapy
If you’ve ever left therapy wondering, “Am I doing this wrong?”—you’re not alone. In this blog, we share a therapist’s perspective from both sides of the couch, offering reassurance, insight, and a reminder that you don’t have to have it all figured out to be doing the work.
How Social Media is Impacting the Motherhood Experience
Social media can be both a lifeline and a source of pressure for moms. While it offers tips, connection, and support… it also floods us with endless “shoulds” and comparisons that can make us doubt our own instincts. In a world where parenting comes without a guidebook, it’s easy to feel like we’re not doing enough. But the truth is, there’s no one right way to parent, and learning to trust yourself (not the algorithm) is key.
Will I Ever Feel Done? The Quiet, Complicated Question of Motherhood
There’s a quiet moment many mothers reach, often in the in-between spaces of daily life, when the question surfaces: Am I done? Not just done with diapers or sleepless nights, but done growing a family. It’s rarely asked out loud, and even more rarely answered with certainty.
What makes this question so complicated is that it isn’t a single decision. It touches the body, the heart, relationships, capacity, identity, and the version of motherhood we once imagined for ourselves. You can feel settled in one area and deeply unsure in another. You can feel relief and grief at the same time. And when that happens, it can start to feel like you’re missing some internal signal everyone else seems to have.
But for many women, that sense of clarity never arrives in a clean or final way. “Done” isn’t a switch that flips. It’s something we move toward slowly, sometimes with peace, sometimes with sadness, often with both.
When the Holidays Get Complicated: Navigating Family After Divorce Later in Life
The holidays can feel heavier when your parents divorced later in life. Traditions shift, family roles change, and the house that once felt like home may no longer exist the way you remember. Even as an adult, grief and guilt are real, and it’s okay to feel them. In her latest blog, Abby Moore, LMSW, explores how to navigate this new holiday reality with care, boundaries, and compassion for yourself and your family.
“Why couldn’t my mom do that for me?”
Motherhood can bring up old wounds you didn’t expect. This blog, written by Keisha Lovett, LPC, P-LPC, explores what it means to carry “mom hurt” while raising your own children—and how therapy can help you heal what still needs care.
Pause: Let’s Take an Energy Inventory
"You should think of your energy as if it's expensive, as if it's a luxury item." – Taylor Swift
Do you ever feel like you’re saying “yes” to everything, but giving your best to nothing? Most of us are spending our energy on auto-pilot, and it’s leaving us drained, resentful, and wondering where all our time went.
Your time and energy are your most valuable resources, and while you can’t create more of them, you can choose where they go. This blog will help you pause, take inventory, and start aligning how you spend your time with what matters most- so you can make space for the things that truly light you up.
Finding What Keeps You Steady When Life Shifts
What’s Holding You Up?
We all need something steady to stand on. Not just to survive, but to feel like ourselves. This blog explores the “stilts” that hold up your life. The things that ground you, shape you, and sometimes stretch you too thin. If you’ve been feeling off-balance or unsure of who you are beneath it all… this one’s for you.
How Different Generations Show Love (And How to Speak Their Language)
Understanding these generational love languages can be a game-changer for your relationships. It helps you see why your partner, your parents or your children might not always show love the way you expect — and gives you practical ways to meet them where they are. Ready to decode the love languages of the generations? Let’s dive in!
Hey Moms, Who’s Raging?
There’s a moment many moms don’t talk about. It might happen in the kitchen, when no one’s listening. It might happen in the car, in the bathroom, or behind a closed bedroom door. It’s not just being “touched out” or exhausted. It’s a flash of something hotter, sharper - a surge of anger that feels sudden, overwhelming, and completely out of character. This is what we would call mom rage.
What is Actually the Problem: You or Your Expectations? How Appropriate Goal Setting Can Change Your Approach- and Outcome
Maybe you’re tired of me talking about appropriate goal setting, but I’m back to talk about it once again because it’s that important.
The act of goal setting is both the starting point and the breaking point. It can be the difference between what happens and what doesn’t so let’s talk about it again and add some more depth this time.
Goal setting is something we do both causally and loudly. We set mental agendas for the day, publicly post initiatives, whisper secret goals to our therapist, and write our dreams down in journals.
Goal setting is a very human experience. Sometimes it feels vulnerable to share, other times we need others to hold us accountable.
But what happens when the goals we set aren’t helping us—when they’re actually hurting us?
Let’s talk about the ways we might be working against ourselves.
“I’ve done everything right and it’s still not enough!”
We live in a culture where the overarching message while growing up is to “work hard and you will be rewarded with what you want. Hard work gets you the outcomes you desire.” I have to admit that I love the sentiment behind these messages– we have to learn to work hard and understand that things don’t “just happen,” and that we are responsible for our own behaviors and actions. However, I am seeing more and more women talk about the crushing disappointment when they have worked hard, they have done “everything right,” and it’s still just not enough to get them where they want to be.
Postpartum Anxiety in Modern-Day Motherhood
Postpartum anxiety is one of the most common concerns of women who walk into my office. It is also one of my favorite things to address because there is so much room for growth and progress.
Sometimes, postpartum anxiety shows up with classic, textbook symptoms that are easily recognizable. Other times, it tends to be a little more sneaky and can go unrecognized or undiagnosed for this reason.
Anxiety manifests differently for every person. For some, it presents more in anxious thoughts, rumination, and excessive worry. For others, it presents physically in more body-based symptoms. Some women don’t even realize that what they’re feeling is anxiety until they are beyond it completely. Additionally, the screening measures you have probably filled out through your OB/GYN, hospital, or pediatrician’s office focus more on symptoms of postpartum depression as opposed to anxiety, so sometimes it slips through the cracks.
I wanted to take the opportunity to share a few “sneaky” ways that I see postpartum anxiety showing up in modern-day motherhood.
I want to preface this by saying that just because you may exhibit some of these behaviors, it does not necessarily mean you have postpartum anxiety. It is simply me sharing some specific areas and patterns that I see showing up.
Real Talk: Sex & Shame
Sex. I’m hoping if you are reading this, I don’t need to use Merriam-Webster here. It’s something I discuss daily with my clients. It’s a topic that comes up, time and time again and it’s most often connected to shame. I see women who feel shameful because they want more sex, but their partner doesn’t. I see women who want no part in intimacy and are feeling pressure from their partners. Women come in angry, hurt, and resentful, quite often asking, “What’s wrong with me.” These women frequently shrink into a place of pain because the story their shame tells them is, “I’m the problem.”
So, You’re Triggered… Now What?
Alright ladies, let’s get honest about what it means to be “triggered,” and how to take responsibility for what that means! There has been a lot of conversation on different social media platforms about what it means to be triggered, but there seems to be a gap in the conversation on what to do when it happens. Let’s try to debunk some myths around being triggered, and get focused on what is, isn’t, and our responsibilities in those moments.
Managing Holiday Expectations
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Each year I look forward to the twinkling lights, the quiet from the snow and time with my favorite people. However, as each year passes it feels there is more and more (..and more) to coordinate. I spend so much time looking forward to the holiday season, that I often feel disappointment when I’m met with the chaos, stress and anxiousness about getting it all done. This is not what this time of year should feel like. I wonder if this is a familiar feeling for you too.
How Motherhood Can Challenge the “Perfectionist” Mentality
In my work as a therapist specializing in perinatal mental health, I support women with the transition into motherhood every day. When we enter any new season in life, we form expectations about what that season will look like. Within those expectations, we also form expectations for how we will navigate that season – often without even realizing it. The expectations we form then shape the way we experience that season, sometimes bringing with it feelings of disappointment, resentment, or even failure. If you are someone who identifies themselves as a “perfectionist,” “Type A personality,” or “high achiever,” keep reading to see how that might show up in your role as a mama.