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AUBREY BODT | Art Therapist for Moms in Maryland

Supporting moms navigating rage, anxiety & burnout
Art therapy • Somatic therapy • Trauma-informed
Maryland virtual therapy
Book your free 15-minute consult here: tendwelltherapy.clientsecure.me

06/19/2026

For most of my life, when something felt difficult, my answer was usually the same: try harder.

Then I became a mom…
And for the first time, trying harder didn’t seem to help.

This is Part 3 of a series about receiving an ADHD diagnosis at 39 and reexamining experiences I’ve spent most of my life interpreting very differently.

Have you ever reached a point where more effort wasn’t the answer?

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Exploring ADHD at 39 | Part 3/6

Aubrey | Therapist for women & mothers

Helping women navigate the emotional consequences of carrying too much for too long.

Virtual therapy across Maryland

06/15/2026

For a long time, I assumed the answer was more discipline…

If I could just find the “right” system, routine, planner, strategy, or habit, maybe things would finally feel easier?

Looking back, I realize I’d spent YEARS trying to improve myself, and less time trying to truly understand myself.

This is Part 2 of a series about what happened when I started questioning the story I was telling myself about why everything felt so hard.

Have you ever realized you were trying to fix something before you fully understood it?

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Exploring ADHD at 39 | Part 2/6

Aubrey | Therapist for women & mothers

Helping women navigate the emotional consequences of carrying too much for too long.

Virtual therapy across Maryland

06/10/2026

For a long time, ADHD wasn’t even on my radar.

There seemed to be plenty of reasonable explanations.

☑️ The pandemic
☑️ Motherhood
☑️ The mental load
☑️ Perimenopause

This is Part 1 of a series about what happened when I started questioning the story I was telling myself about why everything felt so hard.

Have you ever discovered that your first explanation wasn’t the whole picture?

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Exploring ADHD at 39 | Part 1/6

Aubrey | Therapist for women & mothers

Helping women navigate the emotional consequences of carrying too much for too long

Virtual therapy across Maryland

06/05/2026

I’d originally planned to upload this earlier today, but got sucked into looking for my 6 y.o.’s lost Tamagatchi.

Spoiler: I think it’s lost forever and I’m mentally planning a funeral now. I welcome all prayers, spells, positive energy, manifestations, etc. sent our way intended to miraculously recover it. 🤞

Let me know below if you have any specific questions you’d like me to answer in this series!


05/05/2026

I wasn’t insecure about my body… until someone else decided I should be.

A colleague asked if I was pregnant. They meant well. I believe that. But impact > intention.

Because this isn’t just “small talk.” It’s a reflection of something bigger.

Women’s bodies are still treated like public information. Open for observation, interpretation, commentary. And when those thoughts get said out loud, they don’t just disappear. They land. They stick. They become something we now have to metabolize… even if we weren’t thinking about our bodies before.

And here’s what often gets missed: you don’t know what someone is carrying.

PCOS. Thyroid or hormonal shifts. Fertility treatments. IVF. Loss. Miscarriage. Abortion. Endometriosis. Adenomyosis. Fibroids. Chronic illness. Digestive issues. Medications that change the body. Perimenopause or menopause. Disordered eating or recovery. Chronic stress. A body changing in ways they don’t understand yet. A pregnancy they’re not ready to share. A postpartum body they’re still finding their way back into. Or a deeply intentional decision to not have more children, or any at all.

You don’t know.

So when we comment on a woman’s body — even casually, even curiously, even “excitedly” — we’re making her body public. We’re placing our assumptions onto her. We’re asking her to hold something that was never hers to carry.

This is how anxiety gets louder. How people-pleasing kicks in. How anger gets swallowed… or leaks out sideways. Because now she’s not just in her body; she’s in your perception of it.

We have to do better than this. Trust women to share what they want to share, if and when they want to share it. Not everything needs to be said out loud. Not every thought deserves a voice. Not every body is up for discussion.

It’s not harmless. It’s not neutral. It’s unnecessary.

If she has something to share, she will. Or not. Both are valid. It’s her choice what she discloses about her body.

03/05/2026

It’s all just… a lot, these days, huh?

Put down your phone. Go outside. Breathe in and out. Be amongst nature. Say hi to the sun or moon, wherever you are.

Just be. 💛

03/05/2026

Women are praised for patience and punished for anger.

We are allowed to be patient.
Accommodating.
Understanding.
Flexible.
Selfless.

Anger breaks that script.

So when anger shows up in a woman’s life, it is quickly framed as a personal failure. She assumes she is too reactive, too intense, or not handling things well enough.

But anger does not appear randomly.
And it does not just fade away.

It builds.

It builds in the places where expectations keep rising while support stays the same. It builds in relationships where one person quietly carries more and more of the emotional and logistical weight. It builds when someone spends years being the capable one everyone depends on.

Women are taught to absorb pressure quietly and call it maturity.

For mothers, that pressure often erupts under the constant demands of caregiving and the invisible mental load that never fully turns off while simultaneously navigating the developmental phase of matrescence.

For women without children, it shows up in work dynamics, family roles, partnerships, and the exhausting expectation to hold everything together without complaint.

And when anger builds long enough without being acknowledged, it often becomes rage.

Anger and rage are not the failure.

A culture that expects women to carry everything without protest is.

Silencing anger is what keeps women stuck.

When anger and rage are understood instead of suppressed, it becomes clear what needs to change.

If this speaks to you, I offer virtual therapy for women and mothers in Maryland.

Reach out via:
💻 TendWellTherapy.com
📧 [email protected]
☎️ 410-429-0212 (call or text)

🔗 Free resources in bio

02/26/2026

The women who resonate with this are not unstable. They are capable. They are the calm one in the room. The responsible one. The one who keeps it together at work, in relationships, in motherhood. And underneath that competence there is often anger that never had space, anxiety that never slowed down, and a body that is tired of holding it all.

You might not look like someone who is struggling. You might look like someone who handles everything. That does not mean your body is not carrying too much.

If you are a woman or mother in Maryland who wants support that goes deeper than coping, you can learn more about working together through the link in my bio.



02/23/2026

You know that moment in therapy where you’re calmly explaining the situation. You’ve thought it through. You’re not irrational. You’re reacting appropriately. And then your therapist gently asks, “Are you reacting… or reenacting?” Or even suggests, “Let’s explore how you’re contributing to this experience…” And something in you goes still. Because suddenly it’s not just about what happened this week. It’s about why this pattern feels familiar in your body. So many women and mothers I sit with are capable, thoughtful, deeply self-aware and still find themselves over-functioning, over-explaining, shutting down, or quietly resentful. Not because they’re dramatic. Because their nervous system learned early that staying in control, staying calm, or staying needed was how you stayed safe.

In our work, we slow that moment down and get curious about the role you slip into when tension rises in relationships, at work, in motherhood, or even alone with your own thoughts. The part of you that manages everything, goes silent, or eventually erupts after holding too much for too long. We don’t shame that part. We understand why she developed. And then we build the capacity to respond differently. Less reenactment. More choice. If you saw yourself in this, stay here. We talk about the patterns underneath the anxiety, the anger, and the overwhelm and what it actually takes to interrupt them. If you’re feeling the nudge, trust it. You can find details about working with me in my profile, or you can reach me at [email protected].

anger | rage | anxiety | over-functioning | nervous system patterns | cycle breaking | emotional capacity

If you’ve been feeling like you’re not doing enough right now, you’re not alone. But slow down. Breathe. You don’t have ...
01/28/2026

If you’ve been feeling like you’re not doing enough right now, you’re not alone. But slow down. Breathe.
You don’t have to do it all.

Not everyone can safely join public protests.
Not everyone has childcare, energy, or capacity.
And that doesn’t make your care, your values, or your resistance any less real.

The way you speak to your children.
The way you model repair.
The way you choose empathy, even when the world feels heavy.

It all counts.

As I’ve been introducing my son to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring this week, one of my favorite lines has stayed with me:

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”

We don’t need to do everything.
We just need to keep doing what’s ours to do, with care.

If you’re a mom in Maryland feeling angry, enraged, anxious, overwhelmed, or downright burned out, and something in this resonates, I offer virtual therapy for moms navigating big emotions and nervous system overload. There is no pressure to have it all figured out. Just a place to show up honestly and be met with care.

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