Have you ever found yourself snapping at your partner for forgetting the laundry (again) and immediately feeling a wave of shame crash over you? Do you feel like you’re on edge all the time, your skin buzzing with frustration, and then seconds later, crushed with guilt? If so, please know for many moms, your feelings…
Motherhood is extraordinary, but it can also be exhausting. If you’re like most moms I work with, you’re constantly managing the emotional, physical and mental needs of your family. You’re the one remembering the dentist appointments, ordering the birthday gifts, packing the lunches, soothing the meltdowns and somehow still showing up to work, or to…
You may have never heard of Depleted Mother Syndrome. Afterall, a “syndrome” sounds a bit negative and also carries a lot of weight with it. But what I know from my years as a therapist is that for many (if not most) moms, there’s a kind of exhaustion that doesn’t go away even with repeated…
If you’re a mother in your late 30s to your early 50s and finding yourself increasingly short-tempered, exhausted in a way sleep doesn’t fix, or struggling with mood swings that don’t seem to pass, you are not alone. These emotional shifts may not be “just stress” or “just hormones.” They may be signs of perimenopausal…
“I find that parents just don’t realize the impact their child’s cell phone may be having, and how could they?..” Working with teenagers has allowed me to enter into a world I never knew I wanted to learn about. As a mother, it brought up a lot of uneasy feelings. What would I do when…