How to Care for Someone Who Has Experienced a Traumatic Birth or Pregnancy We all want to help the people we love when they’re going through a difficult time. But having good intentions doesn’t mean we know to help them in the way they need, especially if we haven’t...
When Does Postpartum Depression Begin For a lot of us, giving birth is complicated. Birth might not go as planned, or we find ourselves experiencing new, distressing feelings after giving birth. Maybe we’re prone to bursts of unexplained anxiety, or maybe we’ve...
How Grief Affects Us Physically Grief hits us hard. It takes over every part of our life, showing up when we least expect it. It affects our emotions with an intensity that can be scary, but is that where it stops? Does it only stop at our emotions? Or does it affect...
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...
