Parenting is challenging for everyone—but for highly sensitive people, parenting can feel especially intense. The daily sounds, chaos, emotions, and decisions can stir up big feelings and overstimulation. If you identify as a highly sensitive person, you’re not alone—and you’re not broken. In fact, you may have strengths that make you an especially attuned, empathic,…
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Postpartum Depression: What Are the Symptoms?
If you’re in a season of having kids or considering having kids, chances are you know someone who has experienced Postpartum Depression (PPD). Studies show as many as 21% of new moms experience PPD (Wisner et al., 2013), but what does that actually mean? We are going to break down the symptoms associated with PPD…
Recognizing and Celebrating Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about the emotional and psychological challenges that many women face during the transition to parenthood. Conditions like postpartum depression, anxiety, and other perinatal mood and anxiety disorders often go undiagnosed and untreated, affecting not only mothers but also their families and children’s development. Although…
The Silent Struggle: Perinatal OCD and Intrusive Thoughts
Before giving birth to your child, you might have expected sleepless nights, dirty diapers, and emotional ups and downs. What you might not have expected were terrifying, intrusive thoughts that seemed to come out of nowhere. Some of these thoughts might look like images of accidentally dropping your baby down the stairs or of harming…
Addressing Physician Burnout: Roadmaps to Wellness
Burnout is a growing and deeply concerning issue within the medical profession. It is not a matter of inadequate coping skills or personal weakness. Burnout is a response to chronic, often overwhelming demands placed on physicians in today’s healthcare system. At Wildflower Center for Emotional Health, our team of licensed therapists work with many physicians…
Feeling Overwhelmed? You’re Busy, Not Broken
Let’s be honest — being a busy working professional sometimes feels like sprinting toward a finish line that doesn’t exist. Emails pile up faster than the dishes in the sink, and your to-do list feels more like a collection of wishful thinking. Somewhere along the way, we started believing we have to be productivity machines…
National Infertility Awareness Week: Compassion, Education, and Advocacy
During National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW) we join with many leading organizations in a campaign to shed light on the deeply personal and often misunderstood experience of infertility that impacts millions of individuals and couples worldwide. Infertility can be an isolating journey, filled with emotional, physical, and financial challenges, yet it remains a topic that…
Trauma Sensitive Yoga Therapy: What It Is and If It’s For You
Trauma affects not only the mind but also the body, often leaving survivors feeling disconnected from their physical selves. There are many treatments for trauma, and you can learn more about those in Navigating Life After Trauma: Healing and Integration. Traditional talk therapies address the cognitive and emotional aspects of trauma, but many individuals find…
When Love and Diapers Collide: Navigating Your Postpartum Relationship
As a therapist who specializes in perinatal mental health and sex/couples therapy, I often witness what happens when romantic love meets sleep deprivation, hormonal changes, and a tiny crying human alarm clock that doesn’t come with a snooze button. In the postpartum period, partners might feel more like cranky roommates than starry-eyed soulmates. If this…
Menstrual Cycle and Mental Health: What to Know and How to Cope
Many women know that their menstrual cycle can impact mood, but don’t know the specifics of how each phase of the cycle can affect them. Research shows that changes in estrogen and progesterone can affect emotional regulation, cognitive function, and overall mental well-being (Handy et al., 2022), with each part of the cycle exerting a different…
