NAVIGATING PARENTHOOD
When a baby is born, so is a mother.
You are expecting or just had a baby. Now what? Where do I go from here?
Very few things are as transformative as preparing for and experiencing pregnancy, parenthood or both.
It's requiring aspects of ourselves that we didn’t even realize we possessed, pushing us to grow in ways we may not have been prepared for or expected.
So often we feel overwhelmed, inadequate, pressured and like what we do is never enough. It can be a lonely and disheartening experience, but you don’t have to do it alone.
Whether you are a birth parent, adopted parent, bonus parent or caregiver of any kind, your feelings are valid and giving yourself space to share and problem solve can be a transformative and healing process.
Therapy can help you:
Feel seen and supported in the shifting of identity, sleep, routines, etc
Develop a compassionate and healthy sense of self in this new identity as a parent
Learn to shift automatic reactions or behaviors
Understand, accept and allow the daily emotional ups and downs
Identify postpartum depression or anxiety and find solutions for perinatal challenges
Learn to self soothe and coach yourself through difficulties
Choose partners intentionally and consciously and not based on unhealed attachment wounds
