How to Tell When You Should Seek Therapy After a Traumatic Birth or Pregnancy Seeking therapy isn’t easy, especially when you’ve never needed to before. It can be hard to know whether your distress is severe enough to reach out to a therapist for help. When you’ve...
5 Tips for Coping with Anxiety During Pregnancy Pregnancy is a wonderful thing, but that doesn’t make it easy. Especially when you can’t stop worrying about everything that could go wrong, when everything becomes so difficult you find it hard to breathe properly, when...
What Causes Postpartum Depression? You’ve recently given birth. You find yourself feeling sad or empty, maybe a little restless. You don’t have energy during the day, no motivation to do anything. You might be eating too little or, on the contrary, more than you used...
Grieving After Abortion: Tips for Navigating Complicated Feelings Abortion is not an easy topic to talk about. But people get abortions for different reasons. Sometimes, of course, it’s because you’re just not ready to have a child at this point in your life. Other...
Your Birth Didn’t Go as Planned—How Do You Reconcile? A common piece of advice when preparing to give birth is to plan how the delivery is going to go. You could have done all the research in the world and have been very careful about your planning, but that doesn’t...
