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Highly Sensitive Mom: When Noticing Everything Wears You Out
If motherhood has you overstimulated, short-fused and wondering where your old coping skills went, you might be a highly sensitive mom. Here’s why it feels so hard and what actually helps.
Overstimulated Mom? How to Cope When Motherhood Is Too Much
Touched out, snapping at the kids, craving a dark quiet room? That’s overstimulation, and it’s not a patience problem. Here’s why moms get overstimulated and how to cope.
Betrayal Trauma: How to Heal After Being Cheated On
Replaying it, checking his phone, can’t sleep? Being cheated on can feel like trauma. Here’s what betrayal trauma is and how to start healing, whether you stay or go.
What Is ACT Therapy? Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Women Who Overthink
Tired of fighting your own thoughts? Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) helps women who overthink make room for hard feelings and get back to what matters.
Stuck in Survival Mode? How to Calm Your Nervous System
Exhausted but wired, snapping at small things, just getting through each day? Here’s how to recognize survival mode and calm your nervous system, in the moment and over time.
High-Functioning Depression in Women: Signs You’re Not Just Tired
Getting it all done but feeling flat inside? Learn the signs of high-functioning depression in women, what causes it, and how therapy can help you feel like yourself again.
Matrescence: The Identity Shift of Becoming a Mom That No One Warned You About
Feel like you lost yourself after having a baby? That's matrescence, the identity shift of becoming a mother. What it is, why it's so disorienting, and how to find yourself again.
Postpartum Anxiety vs. Postpartum Depression: How to Tell the Difference
Is it the baby blues, postpartum anxiety, or postpartum depression? How to tell the difference, what each one feels like, and when to reach out for support.
Postpartum Rage: Why You Feel So Angry After Having a Baby (and What Helps)
Snapping, seething, then drowning in guilt? Postpartum rage is real and more common than you think. What causes it, what helps, and when to get support.
Online Therapy for Moms in Colorado: Therapy That Fits Around Nap Time
Online therapy for moms in Colorado. Real support from a licensed therapist, from your couch, your car, or wherever nap time finds you.
How Your Menstrual Cycle Affects Your Mental Health: A Phase-by-Phase Guide to Cycle Syncing
Your hormones shape your mood, energy and resilience all month long. Here’s what happens in each phase of your cycle, what helps, and when to reach for more support.
The Number One Most Common Advice I Give as a Therapist
Rumi’s poem The Guest House is the advice Ilene Solomon Gold, LCSW, shares most with clients. Here’s why welcoming your hardest feelings, instead of fighting them, helps you heal.
