by Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPCReading Time: 5 Minutes It’s a strange thing to feel the weight of grief without having lost something specific. A heaviness in the chest. A low-grade tension in the body. A sense that something is off, but we can’t always name it. Many of us are living with a kind of […]

By Erin Newton, LCPC, PMH-CReading Time: 5 minutes Hello and Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! This post is especially for our new moms, those sleep deprived, unshowered, still in the same sour milk soaked shirt for the last two days goddesses just struggling for a tiny nap, a coffee in peace, […]

By Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPCReading Time: 4 minutes So far, we’ve explored how our body’s natural rhythms influence sleep and how our relationship to rest shapes our ability to recharge. But there’s another layer to consider – hormones and underlying sleep disorders. These factors can quietly disrupt sleep, making it feel frustratingly out of reach, […]

By Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPCReading Time: 3 minutes If you’ve ever felt like your sleep is out of sync, you’re not imagining it. Our bodies run on built-in rhythms that tell us when to wake, when to wind down, and when to sleep—but modern life doesn’t always cooperate. Understanding how these rhythms work can make […]

By Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPCReading Time: 3 minutes Sleep deprivation, especially when it’s chronic, isn’t just about waking up tired. We’ve all had nights of bad sleep, the kind we can shake off with an extra cup of coffee and a promise to catch up later. But true sleep deprivation is different. It feeds off […]

By Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPCReading Time: 3 minutes I’ve always had a complicated relationship with sleep, but when my twins were born, it went from trouble sleeping to chronic insomnia. I had never experienced anything like it before, and it was brutal. I hallucinated. I sleepwalked. I thrashed around in a half-wake, half-sleep state. I […]

By Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPC READING TIME: 4 MINUTES We often hear phrases like “Practice presence,” “Be in the moment,” and “Always be mindful”, in therapeutic and spiritual spaces. But what does this actually mean, and how do you achieve it? Mindfulness and presence are transformative practices that profoundly impact your life. As Carl Jung […]

By Dr. Kendra O’Hora, Ph.D., LCMFT READING TIME: 4 minutes “My winter nights are taken up by static Stress and holiday shopping traffic” -Taylor Swift Quoting the Most Popular Person on the Planet, of Course!Seems only  appropriate to round out the year with a quote from Time’s Person of the Year – none other than […]

Somehow, we have convinced ourselves that we are different from the rest of nature. That we are better or stronger. But the truth is nature has it right. If we follow its rhythms, it shows us exactly what we need.

May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month! And if you’re not new around here, then you already know how much we value maternal mental health at Wellness & Co. It’s over four (!!) years ago now that we started intentionally focusing on mothers and their unique needs in terms of anxiety, depression, OCD, and birth trauma.