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Articles on motherhood, anxiety, relationships, and the expectations we live with.
With Dr. Jana Rundle · Clinical Psychologist
You snapped at 7:45 a.m. and you're grading yourself at 10 p.m. What Winnicott actually meant by the good enough mother, what the research says about being in sync and repair, and why keeping score is the real problem.
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The first 12 weeks after birth are the most physically and emotionally intense period of your life. Here is what is actually happening in your body and brain, and why understanding the fourth trimester changes everything.
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If you've tried the journal, the app, and the bath bombs and you're still burned out, self-care was never the problem. A perinatal psychologist on the structural changes that actually help high-achieving moms.
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You would step in front of a truck for her, and when you look at her you feel… tired. What a slow bond can look like, why it happens, when it's a symptom, and what helps.
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The night before your first day back is often the hardest. A perinatal psychologist on why returning to work after a baby is so hard, what the research says about your child, what helps before and after you go back, and when it's more than adjustment.
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When will I feel like myself again? When postpartum depression starts, how long it can last, why waiting it out backfires, what early improvement looks like, and whether it can come back.
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