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Let’s Talk Fertility: Facts, Societal Views, and How to Support Those Who Are Struggling
Guest post by Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, M.S., LMFT, PMH-C It’s National Infertility Awareness Week, which means your social media feed has likely been filled with facts, quotes, and personal stories surrounding fertility. If you’re one of the “lucky ones” (and I hope...
To white parents on talking about racism with your kids
I am the white mother of two biracial children. I live in Minnesota, in a suburb of the Twin Cities metro area around Minneapolis/St. Paul. Just in the short years that I’ve been a mother in Minnesota, we white moms have had the opportunity to talk with our children...
On Social Media
I have incredibly mixed feelings about social media. I think it mainly serves to feed into comparison culture, which makes us feel worse about ourselves no matter what we’re doing. Almost every day in my therapy practice I’m talking with people who know social media...
Facebook Live with Dara from Wise Ink
Watch the video of Dara (incredible publisher from Wise Ink) and me chatting about the book! https://fb.watch/4IoBdYtQ1I/ 9 days left to support, donate, or preorder Brave New Mom: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bravenewmom/brave-new-mom
Five reasons to preorder Brave New Mom through Kickstarter
Here are five good reasons to preorder Brave New Mom through Kickstarter in the next 11 days! There will be a gap in time between the preorders and when the books are able to be ordered online, so preordering guarantees you will have the book first! The preordered...
Best workplaces for Moms – Nominate yours!
We want to know what has made your workplace a great place for moms to work this past year, through the pandemic. (Or if it hasn’t been, we want to know that too!) Nominate and describe your workplace here until April 20, 2021. After that date, watch this page to see...
Finding Your Joy As a Mom
In the spirit of nonjudgment and self-compassion, let’s start by saying that not everyone feels naturally joyful as a new mom. I didn’t feel a lot of innate happiness or joy in my role as a new mom when I became one, even though I expected to and many people told me...
Shouldn’t I feel better?
This is the number one misconception/self-judgment I hear from new moms: I thought this was supposed to be the happiest time in my life (and then the part they might not say: but I don’t feel happy). THAT’S OKAY. It is absolutely okay to not enjoy every moment with...
Scary thoughts
Did you know that over 90% of moms have scary, intrusive thoughts about their babies? They might be images of your baby being hurt, thoughts of you or someone else harming your baby, or something unimaginable happening. When I was a new mom, every night when I was...
Self-Compassion
Self-Compassion has been a pretty important practice in my life. I am not a person who is naturally compassionate toward myself. In fact, when I started to learn about self-compassion, I was pretty dismissive of it – why would I need to worry about how I talk to...