My gosh, Kristin ( ) is here with this inspiring tender guest post! I love this woman, and I am honored to have her at my . Kristin is a stay-at-home mom, writer and social media marketer. She blogs at . She resides with her husband and one-year-old son in a university residence hall, where her…
Category Archives: guilt
Victims, Victors, and Classes
Before we delve into this juicy post, please note this schedule change: The monthly Ithaca Mothers Support Group meetings are moving from the first Tuesday of the month to the first Thursday of the month. Our next meeting is this Thursday June 7th, at 12:30-1:30pm. . – – – Does motherhood make you feel like…
International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
Today, November 19, is International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day. I started to write a special post for today, but I just can’t finish it. As someone who lost her birth mother to postpartum depression driven suicide, and six years ago almost followed the same path, I am giving myself to not finish this painful post…
Vows for Jax, and Welcome, James
Oh, Joy! Jaime, another #ppdchat friend (she tweets as @jamesandjax) is visiting us today. Jaime about her journey through ppd and anxiety while balancing work and home. I’ve been writing and talking about my disarming anxiety process lately (, ), and Jaime and I twitted back and forth about it, and voila, now she is here. Got…
The Opportunities in Setbacks. And Rainy Days Letters.
This post started a trend. It’s about how to make a setback work for you rather than floor you, and describes how to write yourself a letter that can serve as a ray of light in the darkness of your bad days. Since I wrote this post, other mothers in the PPD community shared their…
Category Archives: guilt
Climbing Out of the Pit of Pain
My gosh, Kristin ( ) is here with this inspiring tender guest post! I love this woman, and I am honored to have her at my . Kristin is a stay-at-home mom, writer and social media marketer. She blogs at . She resides with her husband and one-year-old son in a university residence hall, where her…
Victims, Victors, and Classes
Before we delve into this juicy post, please note this schedule change: The monthly Ithaca Mothers Support Group meetings are moving from the first Tuesday of the month to the first Thursday of the month. Our next meeting is this Thursday June 7th, at 12:30-1:30pm. . – – – Does motherhood make you feel like…
International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
Today, November 19, is International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day. I started to write a special post for today, but I just can’t finish it. As someone who lost her birth mother to postpartum depression driven suicide, and six years ago almost followed the same path, I am giving myself to not finish this painful post…
Vows for Jax, and Welcome, James
Oh, Joy! Jaime, another #ppdchat friend (she tweets as @jamesandjax) is visiting us today. Jaime about her journey through ppd and anxiety while balancing work and home. I’ve been writing and talking about my disarming anxiety process lately (, ), and Jaime and I twitted back and forth about it, and voila, now she is here. Got…
The Opportunities in Setbacks. And Rainy Days Letters.
This post started a trend. It’s about how to make a setback work for you rather than floor you, and describes how to write yourself a letter that can serve as a ray of light in the darkness of your bad days. Since I wrote this post, other mothers in the PPD community shared their…