How to raise a healthy family when you don’t come from one.
When you don’t come from a healthy family yourself, how do you raise one? In today’s post, a licensed therapist shares her top tips and insight about how to do this.
Are you the identified patient in your family?
Are you the Identified Patient in your family-of-origin? Today’s post explores what it means to be an identified patient, why this happens, and how to take care of yourself.
20 Things I’ve Learned In 10 Years As A Therapist
I started grad school to become a therapist in 2010 and have now spent a decade doing this work. Here are 20 key insights I want to share from those years.
Postpartum Depression: “Did I ruin my life by having a child?”
Postpartum depression affects 13% of women and it can often be hard to catch and shameful to see yourself in. But it is so treatable with early detection.
I’m afraid to have kids because of how messed up my own childhood was.
If you have a childhood trauma background, you may be ambivalent about having kids because you’re afraid of messing them up like your parents did to you.
Don’t Know If You Want to Have Children? This Blog Post’s for You.
“I’m just not that sure if I want to have children. What do I do? How do I know for sure? How do I decide and what if I make the wrong decision?”
Ambivalence about having children is a tender, complex, and often confusing place to be in — a little bit akin to having a giant, wickedly tangled big ball of woolly yarn that may or may not have an answer in the middle of it… if only you could get it untangled!
Meet Annie
Welcome. However you found this blog, I'm so glad you're here. I've been writing about a variety of mental health topics every two weeks for over four years now, so there's quite a bit of content here! I invite you to explore my blog post categories and archives below for the topics that resonate with you the most right now. Thank you for taking the time to read my words. I hope they feel helpful.
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