Therapy for Mamas

Therapy for Mamas I help parents navigate infertility, pregnancy and infant loss, trauma, grief, and the profound transformation of parenthood.

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08/26/2026

We’re often taught to treat anger like a problem to solve.

Calm down.
Let it go.
Don’t overreact.
Try to see the other person’s perspective.

But anger is information.

It can tell us that a boundary has been crossed. That something feels unfair. That we’re carrying too much. That our needs have gone unmet for so long we’ve stopped recognizing them as needs.

Sometimes the question isn’t, How do I stop being so angry?

It’s:

What keeps happening that makes anger necessary?

Your anger doesn’t always need to be obeyed. But it deserves to be listened to.

Part 3 coming next.

Sometimes anger is the top layer.Underneath it might be exhaustion. Overstimulation. Resentment. Grief. Fear. Powerlessn...
08/22/2026

Sometimes anger is the top layer.

Underneath it might be exhaustion. Overstimulation. Resentment. Grief. Fear. Powerlessness. The feeling that you have asked for help twelve different ways and somehow nothing has actually changed.

And sometimes, underneath the anger, there is… anger.

Not every angry feeling needs to be translated into something softer or more socially acceptable before we take it seriously.

The goal isn’t to shame it, suppress it, or let it run the show.

It’s to get curious about what it’s responding to.

What has become unsustainable?
What boundary keeps getting crossed?
What need has gone unmet for too long?
What are you carrying that was never supposed to be yours alone?

Anger is information.

And learning to understand it can tell us a lot about what needs care, support, or change.

08/21/2026

The case of Lindsay and her children has opened up a much bigger conversation about maternal mental health, and I think some of the anger we’re seeing from women is worth getting curious about.

For many women, the point of recognition isn’t the unimaginable outcome of the events. It’s the experience of asking for help and still not feeling helped.

It’s knowing something is wrong. Watching your mental health decline. Worrying about how it will affect your children. And still being responsible for keeping everyone else okay while trying to find meaningful support for yourself.

That experience exists within a much larger landscape: barriers to mental healthcare, inadequate childcare, invisible labor, reproductive restrictions, infertility, pregnancy and infant loss, birth trauma, and a culture that still profoundly misunderstands how psychologically vulnerable pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood can be.

None of this requires us to excuse harm or minimize anyone’s suffering.

It asks us to stay curious about why this case has touched such a raw nerve for so many women.

Because maternal anger doesn’t emerge in a vacuum.

Sometimes it’s a symptom. Sometimes it’s grief. Sometimes it’s trauma. Sometimes it’s powerlessness. And sometimes it’s telling us that something around us needs to change.

Maybe it’s time we listened to what that anger has to say.

08/13/2026

I found the prior work for this exact carousel from August 3, but the caption itself isn’t coming back verbatim—the carousel is, which tells me we definitely built this together. I don’t want to pretend I recovered wording I didn’t.

Based on the carousel, I’d use this caption. It feels much more like the emotional point we were making than simply repeating the slides:

Pregnancy after loss can be deeply wanted and deeply frightening at the same time.

You can love this baby and still miss the baby who came before.

You can feel grateful and still dread the next appointment.

You can hear, “Everything looks great,” and feel relief for five minutes before your mind finds the next thing to worry about.

You can reach the week when your previous loss happened and realize your body has been keeping track of the date even when you weren’t consciously counting.

That’s one of the things people don’t always understand about pregnancy after loss: a new pregnancy doesn’t erase what your nervous system learned from the last one.

This isn’t a do-over.

This baby isn’t a replacement.

And feeling afraid to fully exhale doesn’t mean you aren’t bonding, aren’t grateful, or aren’t excited.

Sometimes hope after loss looks less like certainty and more like allowing yourself to love something while knowing how vulnerable love can make you.

If this pregnancy feels different, it’s because you are carrying more than a baby this time. You’re carrying memory, too.

And you deserve care that makes room for both. 🤍

Save this for the milestone that feels harder than you expected, or send it to someone who needs to know that hope and grief are allowed to exist in the same pregnancy.

Pregnancy after loss can be deeply wanted and deeply frightening at the same time.You can love this baby and still miss ...
08/13/2026

Pregnancy after loss can be deeply wanted and deeply frightening at the same time.

You can love this baby and still miss the baby who came before.

You can feel grateful and still dread the next appointment.

You can hear, “Everything looks great,” and feel relief for five minutes before your mind finds the next thing to worry about.

You can reach the week when your previous loss happened and realize your body has been keeping track of the date even when you weren’t consciously counting.

That’s one of the things people don’t always understand about pregnancy after loss: a new pregnancy doesn’t erase what your nervous system learned from the last one.

This isn’t a do-over.

This baby isn’t a replacement.

And feeling afraid to fully exhale doesn’t mean you aren’t bonding, aren’t grateful, or aren’t excited.

Sometimes hope after loss looks less like certainty and more like allowing yourself to love something while knowing how vulnerable love can make you.

If this pregnancy feels different, it’s because you are carrying more than a baby this time. You’re carrying memory, too.

And you deserve care that makes room for both. 🤍

Save this for the milestone that feels harder than you expected, or send it to someone who needs to know that hope and grief are allowed to exist in the same pregnancy.

When maternal mental illness becomes national news, people start searching for answers.What is postpartum psychosis? Wha...
08/12/2026

When maternal mental illness becomes national news, people start searching for answers.

What is postpartum psychosis? What are the warning signs? How could something like this happen?

I’m glad we ask those questions. I just wish more families were given the answers before they ever needed them.

Postpartum psychosis is rare, but not so rare that we don’t need to worry about it. I know all too well how the “rare event” can become your own personal nightmare. A .2% change feels remote until it happens to you. And conversations about maternal mental health shouldn’t begin only after something devastating has happened.

We prepare families for feeding, safe sleep, car seats, recovery and newborn care. Mental health deserves a place in that preparation, too. Not because we want parents to be afraid of what could happen, but because information gives families language for recognizing when something isn’t right and knowing when to seek help.

I also think we owe something to the families whose most painful experiences become public conversations. We can learn from tragedy without turning people into headlines, reducing complicated illnesses to sensational stories, or forgetting that real families continue living with these losses long after public attention moves on.

The goal isn’t more fear.

It’s earlier recognition. Better education. More informed families. And systems prepared to respond before suffering becomes crisis.

The best time to learn about maternal mental health is before your family ever needs the information.

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