October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month—a time to honor families who have experienced the heartbreak of losing a child and to talk openly about something that affects so many people. Minnesota organization, Star Legacy Foundation, recently sat...
By Krista Post, MA, LP Holding her 9-month-old son, a young mother cries in my office as she describes thoughts of drowning her child. A new mother, just two weeks postpartum, shamefully explains that her own mother is now...
A Strengths-Based Approach to Healing By Taylor Johnson, MSW, LICSW – Psychotherapist While it is widely known that the current medical model for diagnosing mental health issues is largely driven by defect and disorder, the AIR Network approach offers...
Infertility can spark a lot of questions like, “Why is this happening to me?” And “Do I deserve to be a parent?” But it can feel twice as complicated and shame-filled if you once terminated a pregnancy and are...
The following provider core competencies for maternal mental health were developed and published this year, 2017, by the California Task Force on Maternal Mental Health Care. The competencies were developed to address the need for baseline knowledge and skills...
Learn how to manage emotions with DBT skills New parenthood is a transition time and of course there will be moments of stress and frustration. But for some new moms, stress and frustration lead to harmful or self-destructive behaviors....
Written by Sam Chadwick and modified from her personal blog We returned from our 3-month expat to Sweden at the very end of July and lived the next few months in limbo a little bit, uncertain about future living...
I am lucky to be the writer and editor for the Postpartum Counseling Center, an organization I support 110%. I support this organization wholeheartedly because I used to work as a postpartum doula. Once a doula, always a doula....
I found out I was pregnant with my third child in August 2014. My 2nd had just turned one and I had just gotten married in April of that year. One would think that everything would be great! However,...
There is still much debate in the medical community over whether or not oral contraceptives cause depression or other mood disturbances. The Link Between Birth Control and Depression It seems that the incidents of depression after starting use of...
Woven into many cultures and backed by years of wisdom is the practice of “lying in” after having a baby. In Latin cultures this womblike “baby moon” is called la cuarentena—a literal, yet nonabrasive quarantine. In China and Korea,...
Perinatal mood disorders are near epidemic levels in our modern culture. The apparent rise is due to many factors: better screening brings bigger numbers, fertility struggles are increasing and contributing to mood disorders, families are more geographically fractured than...
