Mind & Body

Learn to love your pregnant body with these 9 great tips for a better self image during pregnancy and beyond

This Printable Winter Self-Care BINGO sheet is full of ideas for fun and practical activities you can do to take care of yourself and promote your own mental health this winter season. Self care is self love. Mental health is healthcare.

Sometimes we forget about self-care because we’re so busy taking care of others. This fun and free printable helps you figure out small ways to practice self care all summer long.

This guest post from Sonja Wasden is a beautifully written perspective about experiencing mental illness in motherhood.

Obesity is not a dirty word. It is a health issue like any other, requiring hard work, determination and a lot of help to overcome.

I was compensated by Med-IQ through an educational grant from Novo Nordisk to write about the realities of obesity as a chronic disease. All opinions are my own. As a person who is currently meeting the clinical criteria for obesity, I have seen my share of judgement and negative talk. In fact, much of that …

Daily Affirmations are simple, specific and positive statements declaring a completed goal. They sound very basic when described this way, however they are a way of visualizing an empowered future for yourself and can have an amazingly profound effect on the mind. In the simplest terms, affirmations are a way of tricking your mind into …

When it comes to Postpartum Depression, I feel like I’ve been through it all. Not only have I dealt with it after each of my children’s births, but I also suffered from traumatic Perinatal Depression, which is depression during pregnancy. Somehow, though, this time around, it took me a while to realize that I was suffering …

This story was originally posted on my Facebook page, written on my phone after I got home from an appointment with my son’s pediatrician. After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida last week, it seemed like an important story to share with the world, and I hope and pray that it goes viral because it …

Depression before, during and after pregnancy is all too common. Whether you have longed for a child for years or you’ve been through it all before, depression can hit at any time. Sometimes it is expected because the mother has a history of mental illness, and other times it comes out of left field and …

Self care means giving the world the best of you instead of what is left of you.

Yesterday was hard. My brother, Jacob, at exactly 12 weeks old, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome on January 8th, 1979. I can’t imagine the devastation that this caused my parents and my older siblings. To have your new baby taken away from you forever is something no parent should ever have to go through. …

This past week has been hard. My worst fears were realized when my four year old answered my request for him to stop hitting his brother with, “I’m going to KILL myself. THEN you’ll be sorry!” Angry because he didn’t get his way during a temper tantrum, he shouted these words into my face, his rage evident …

I haven’t written about it on this blog, though I’ve been talking about it a lot elsewhere. To be honest, I wasn’t sure how to really talk about something so personal in such a public way. But since it is dominating my whole life at the moment, I decided to try and write about it …

I don’t often talk about my own experience with miscarriage. I’ve had three in total, and each has hit me hard. When I was growing up, I didn’t want children. I saw myself as career-driven, wanting to make a difference to the world, and I thought kids were annoying and got in the way of …

I’m finding it hard to be enthusiastic right now, despite the fact I have every reason to be. Yesterday we had our big 16 week gender scan, which culminated in us finding out the amazing news that we are expecting a beautiful, healthy baby….. Again. And while I am over the moon about him being …

After two previous high risk pregnancies, a traumatic birth with my second son which culminated in me needing a blood transfusion, and a new pregnancy which has been riddled with pain, bleeding and much stress, forgive me for needing to get something off my chest… Coming from a family of five children, and all of …

They say hindsight is 20/20, and I guess that is true. Because I have been looking back on the last 9 weeks with growing wonder at how something so seemingly small – a blog post about my son – became a worldwide talking point. How one thing I wrote became such a big deal. And …

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, an annual day dedicated to a commitment to help prevent suicide. On average, nearly 3000 people commit suicide DAILY, and for every person who is successful, there are about 20 people who are not. Three years ago, I was one of those who failed in my attempt. Depression, though …

WARNING: This post may contain triggers for those who have dealt with suicide or depression. Today I read an article that got me to thinking about my history of depression. The comedienne, Sarah Silverman has admitted that she would be afraid to have her own children for fear of passing on her depression to them. …