Growing up, I lived in the suburbs of Santa Clara, a small city in the Bay Area, and I went to private Catholic School from Kindergarten...

The darkest corners of our psyches are not inviting. Those crevices where we've stuffed all our secret feelings of worthlessness, shame,...

(This blog was created to be a tongue-in-cheek accompaniment to a talk we are giving on "Using Internal Family Systems to Heal...

Juggling, multi-tasking, too busy, tired, exhausted – if these are the words and phrases you find yourself using to describe yourself, I...

After months of preparation and experiencing every emotion imaginable, the time is finally here. You are thrilled to welcome your new...

As pregnant people move through the months of this pandemic, there is such piercing grief for all they are missing. Commingled with the...

Most of the new moms that I work with lament a similar refrain: “Will this ever end?” I remember when I was in the throes of early...

Growing up in an alcoholic family, I was encouraged to not notice, speak to or feel my pain. And my pain was immense and unbearable....

I remember the early months of motherhood being full of uncertainty and judgment. Every decision about sleeping and feeding and...

Take a deep breath.  Notice what floats into your mind as you take this breath.  Maybe you think, “I can’t.” Maybe you think, “I don’t...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” This difficult, wild,...

Mothering is the method humans use for setting up crucial components of humanness in our species including: our individual wellness...

If I had a nickel for every time a new mom said, “I should be doing/being/feeling (breastfeeding, playing with the baby 24/7, feeling...

When people talk about “self care” the conversation usually revolves around things like massages, pedicures, taking a bath, or, if you’re...

Many women enter motherhood without having their own mothers present in their lives.  Whether they've lost their mothers to death or to...

The perinatal period is defined as the period “all around” birth, including pregnancy and the entire year after birth.

New moms need sensitive, respectful care providers. Yes, that's you. OBs, midwives, surgeons, doulas, lactation consultants, therapists,...

There is nothing on earth as important as creating and raising a child. Mothering means infusing a new little body and consciousness...

I remember nursing my newborn daughter and feeling an overwhelming physical thirst of emergency intensity nearly every nursing session. ...

Thankfully, mercifully, I continue to expand in my awareness of just how magnificently varied we are as human beings. We show up in so...