The Perfect Mom
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...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Jul 22, 2021
- 2 min
Courage for the Darkness
The darkest corners of our psyches are not inviting. Those crevices where we've stuffed all our secret feelings of worthlessness, shame,...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Job Title: Perfect Mom
(This blog was created to be a tongue-in-cheek accompaniment to a talk we are giving on "Using Internal Family Systems to Heal...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Dec 9, 2020
- 2 min
Rest
Juggling, multi-tasking, too busy, tired, exhausted – if these are the words and phrases you find yourself using to describe yourself, I...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Oct 2, 2020
- 2 min
Dear Black Mamas, Let’s Celebrate!
After months of preparation and experiencing every emotion imaginable, the time is finally here. You are thrilled to welcome your new...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Aug 4, 2020
- 4 min
Postpartum & Pandemic Parallels - Part 2
As pregnant people move through the months of this pandemic, there is such piercing grief for all they are missing. Commingled with the...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Aug 4, 2020
- 3 min
Postpartum & Pandemic Parallels - Part 1
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...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Jul 26, 2020
- 2 min
Turn Toward Your Pain
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....
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Family Tree Wellness
- Jun 2, 2020
- 5 min
We Have to Find Our Own Way
I remember the early months of motherhood being full of uncertainty and judgment. Every decision about sleeping and feeding and...
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Family Tree Wellness
- May 22, 2020
- 1 min
When Breath = Life
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...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
How to be open-hearted in a time of fear
“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,...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Mar 11, 2020
- 2 min
Mothering is the heart of our humanity
Mothering is the method humans use for setting up crucial components of humanness in our species including: our individual wellness...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Mar 11, 2020
- 1 min
"Shoulding" on Yourself
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...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Mar 11, 2020
- 3 min
Momming Yourself
When people talk about “self care” the conversation usually revolves around things like massages, pedicures, taking a bath, or, if you’re...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Mar 11, 2020
- 8 min
Motherless Moms
Many women enter motherhood without having their own mothers present in their lives. Whether they've lost their mothers to death or to...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Jan 25, 2020
- 5 min
Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Perinatal Women
The perinatal period is defined as the period “all around” birth, including pregnancy and the entire year after birth.
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Family Tree Wellness
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
Care Providers & Birth Workers
New moms need sensitive, respectful care providers. Yes, that's you. OBs, midwives, surgeons, doulas, lactation consultants, therapists,...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Dec 11, 2019
- 7 min
Mothering Your Self
There is nothing on earth as important as creating and raising a child. Mothering means infusing a new little body and consciousness...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Dec 11, 2019
- 7 min
The Oral Character Style and Postpartum Suffering
I remember nursing my newborn daughter and feeling an overwhelming physical thirst of emergency intensity nearly every nursing session. ...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
About LGBTQ Perinatal Mental Health
Thankfully, mercifully, I continue to expand in my awareness of just how magnificently varied we are as human beings. We show up in so...
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