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Are You Giving Your Kids Everything and Your Relationship What’s Left?
It’s easy to rearrange your entire family’s schedule for your children while assuming your relationship will somehow find time later. But when “later” keeps getting pushed back, the relationship can quietly become the place your family borrows time, energy, and attention from. This article explores why protecting your relationship doesn’t mean putting your kids second—and how more intentional choices about your family’s calendar can help you stay connected.
Feeling Like Roommates After Kids? Why It Happens and What It Means
You may still love each other deeply and yet realize that most of your conversations are about schedules, school, meals, appointments, or what needs to happen next. Feeling like roommates after kids does not necessarily mean your relationship is failing. Sometimes it means the role of being partners has quietly been crowded out by all the other roles family life requires.
Video Interview: Dr. Christina Hibbert, Best-Selling Author & Clinical Psychologist
Today, I'm so excited to bring to you a special interview I did with Dr. Christina Hibbert, Clinical Psychologist and best-selling author of This Is How We Grow, Who Am I Without You, and 8 Keys to Mental Health Through Exercise
We Must Prevent Tragedies Surrounding Postpartum Psychosis
Why do tragedies continue to happen when postpartum psychosis is a preventable and treatable illness that can strike any mother after the birth of a baby?
Momma Interviews: Meet Katie Pickett
Like most moms, Katie plays many roles-- wife, businesswoman, and mom to name a few. Rather than trying to balance these roles, she considers it more of a not-always-so-smooth, transition from one to the next each day.
What to Expect When You Become a Parent After Infertility
Everyone has expectations about what it will be like to become a parent no matter what the process was like.
How to Capture More of Those Magical Parenting Moments
A few years ago when my children were smaller I remember reading an amazing blog post about how sometimes in the middle of all the chaos and the insanity, you find yourself caught in a special moment of clarity and gratitude where time is suspended and all that remains is the connection between you and your child.
Momma Interviews: Meet Kaitlin Rice
This momma doesn't worry about any balancing acts. She simply dives into each of her roles with her whole heart... one day at a time. With help from her fiancé, Kaitlin is able to handle the 'impossibilities' of motherhoo
Dads Who Survive Pregnancy Do These 5 Things!
Pregnancy can cause a lot of feelings for the expectant mom, but it can be equally stressful for the dad-to-be. If you’re an expectant dad who’s wondering how you’ll make it through pregnancy, do these 5 things to survive!
Catherine O'Brien Promotes Maternal Mental Health Awareness on Fox News
May is maternal mental health awareness month and Wednesday, May 4th is World Maternal Mental Health Day. As many as 1 in 5 women will experience a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder (PMAD) during pregnancy and up to 1 year postpartum.
Momma Interviews: Meet Aradhna Sharma
This week we are hearing from a first-time momma, who is seven months in and struggling with a feeling of yearning for her "old life" again. Postpartum depression is very real and she is certainly not the only momma feeling this way. So, without further ado, I'd like you to meet Aradhna Sharma.
Guest Blog Post: Understanding Postpartum Depression and Anxiety
In honor of Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month this May, we will be featuring guest bloggers, each of whom brings their own unique expertise and perspective to the discussion. It is my hope to help educate and normalize the experiences of ALL moms.
Momma Interviews: Meet Nakita
This week's interview comes from a momma who is blocking out the haters! First-time mothers get lots of advice and Nakita is figuring out how to handle the constant comments from the peanut gallery!
Momma Interviews: Meet Kim
This week's interview comes from a momma who knows, "it takes a village to raise a child." Kim is fortunate enough to have family close and friends who are in the same stages of parenthood and they're all helping each other out!
The #1 Thing that Will Determine How Happy You and Your Partner Are in that 1st Year of Parenthood Isn't What You Think!
I recently had a conversation with another mom and, because we both have daughters about the same age, we began sharing stories about when we were expecting.