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How to Prepare Your Firstborn For Your Second Born
First of all HURRAY for creating another life and parenting while also being utterly exhausted and uncomfortable - Congratulations, you’re essentially a superhero! In some ways you’re more prepared for this go around. You already know what brand of diapers and wipes...
What can Mindfulness do for Me?
Have you heard of mindfulness? Are you a mindfulness newbie? That's totally okay. We know that mindfulness is a buzz word that you hear a lot these days. It can sound big and scary and complicated. However, mindfulness is kind of the new "going for a walk." Movement...
Dismantle the Stigma: Becoming an Advocate
Welcome May! Along with the start of a new month comes the national celebration of Mental Health Awareness Month. May is dedicated to the awareness and advocacy of mental health and wellbeing. Mental Health Awareness Month began in 1949 and was started by the National...
Snowpocolypse Brain: Take These Steps to Recover
This past week - the Houston Snowpocolypse / Snowmageddon - knocked a lot of us off our feet, for a variety of reasons. Many of us spent days without power and water. Cell towers were down, disrupting our ability to make phone calls, receive text messages, and...
To the Parents of School Aged Kids: A List of Things You DON’T Need To Do
My guess is you are feeling like there is no more space in your brain to hold the outrages demands placed on you this year. Deciding whether or not to keep your child home, send them in person, maybe pay for private school, unenroll them altogether and go full...
How can dads help with the mental load?
In my last post, I talked about the increased mental load on mothers during this pandemic. It's not uncommon for many of my "mom" clients to complain about bearing the weight of the mental load, unsure of how to pass some of it on to her partner. Where do you begin...