My Blog
The Modern Mother’s Burden: Exhaustion
The modern version of motherhood that includes career and family has a reality to it with painful consequences for mothers: exhaustion. So how do we begin to meet our full lives and not sacrifice ourselves in the process?
Why Writing About Motherhood Is Hard for Me
Exploring the difficulty of articulating the subtler layers of my psyche’s reactions to motherhood.
Taking Our Pregnancies Back from the Media
I am no stranger to the way the media participates in objectifying and exploiting women’s bodies. Is anyone these days? I have been working as a psychotherapist for almost a decade with women who struggle with food and body image issues, and full blown...
Why Talking To Your Daughter About Her Body is Not Enough
My response to the blog post “ How to talk to your daughter about her body” I am a psychotherapist that works primarily with women, and a large part of my practice includes women with eating disorders and a range of food and body issues, so I write this response from...
WANTED: Images of Empowered Mothers (No Pregnant Torsos Please)
Our society lacks a variety of images and versions of empowered mothering, and its up to us as mothers to create and vision ourselves as empowered in our mothering.
Yoga Got Me Started, Mothering Took Me Further
Yoga and sitting with the experience of paradox were powerful tools in helping me settle into motherhood, but writing my story as a mother is what has brought me the most clarity and insight.