
When Perfectionism Stops Working
Perfectionism used to be your superpower. Now it's running you into the ground. Here's how to recognize when the strategies that built your success are costing you your wellbeing.
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Perfectionism used to be your superpower. Now it's running you into the ground. Here's how to recognize when the strategies that built your success are costing you your wellbeing.
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Counting breaths over the crib at 2 a.m.? A perinatal psychologist on new mom hypervigilance, the scary thoughts that come with it, and what actually helps.
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Missing your old life doesn't mean you don't love your baby. A perinatal psychologist on matrescence, grieving your pre-baby self, why a new baby stirs up the past, and how to find yourself again.
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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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