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: 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 […]

Part I: An Undetected Journey By: Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPC My Story – “Earth to Rebecca!” My 5th grade teacher used to yell this across the classroom when I would zone out during math lessons. I would snap out of whatever imaginative world I had entered and, embarrassed, pick up my pencil to doodle, at […]

by Erin Newton, LCPC READING TIME: 5 MINUTES When I was pregnant with my first child, I had a lot of feelings (as a lot of moms do). I was excited and nervous and a little scared. We read books and researched baby furniture and learned about how to put a carseat in our car. […]

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. 

By Rebecca Horch, BACYC, CPC Without getting into too much detail so as to protect her privacy, my daughter is starting to show signs of puberty. She is my only daughter and my first child who is hitting this milestone.  I’m a Parenting Coach. I have studied attachment, human development, and gentle parenting for years. […]

By Brittany Moffitt, LICSW You may remember the saying “It takes a village to raise a child.”  When we imagine this concept of a ‘parenting village’, it can feel so very far from where we are today, particularly in a society that values individualism over collectivism.  A parenting village of multi-generations and extended family to […]

By Erin Newton, LCPC, PMH-C Three and a half years ago, I shared with all of the internet that I had a traumatic birth experience with my oldest daughter. If you read that post, it starts off by saying that it’s been 11 years. Well, now it’s been 14 years (HOW) and many blog posts […]

Once a woman starts trying to conceive, the journey to motherhood begins. Matrescence refers to the process of becoming a mother. It parallels another one of life’s transitions, adolescence. Like the transition from child to teenager, motherhood comes with many changes to our hormones, physical body, relationships, and identity. According to Alexandra Sacks, an expert […]

Have you ever felt like parts of motherhood were not what you expected it to be? When I was pregnant with my son, I did everything I thought was necessary to prepare for his arrival. I researched the safest baby equipment, signed up for newborn classes, and read a ton of books. What I did […]