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How to Grieve Your Postponed Wedding
You’ve waited your whole life for your wedding day, and now a virus bigger than the love you and your partner share is threatening the day of your dreams. As brides and grooms make the hard decisions to postpone or pivot to virtual options, grief is a normal and...
What No One Tells You About Maternal Mental Health
If you ask 10 postpartum women how they are doing, 7 out of 10 of them will hide their symptoms. That means 70% of new moms are suffering in silence, afraid of the social stigma that comes with mental health complications during pregnancy or the postpartum period....
Month of Mayhem
Exactly one year ago today, one of my most courageous clients told me about a new commitment to herself: for one month, starting May 1st, she would prioritize her health & self-care. She promised herself she would work out 4x/week, eat clean, and got the courage...
COVID-19 Pregnancy: Expecting the Unexpected
In the age of the Coronavirus, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” isn’t enough to fully help pregnant moms navigate pregnancy, birth, and becoming a mother. In the absence of a very necessary but absent guide (perhaps titled “What to Expect When You’re Expecting...
Suicide Among Physicians: What You Need to Know
There are countless tragedies surrounding COVID-19, but a lesser-known tragedy is the impact this crisis is having on the mental health of our medical professionals. The death by suicide of Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at New...
Ditching the Fear of Being Judged
What strikes me most about Brené Brown's Rising Strong groups is they illuminate a universal truth: we are all mostly driven by two forces: a fear of being judged a desire to be accepted These truths are at the core of the human experience. When people join my Rising...