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Depression
- What Types of Treatment are Most Effective for Depression? Finding the right treatment for depression can be challenging. Below, you will find a discussion of the available research that may help you decide on your best treatment options. When you are depressed, it easy to lose hope and forget that depress...
- 5 Ways to Avoid Depression After a Break-Up The break-up of a relationship ranks as one of the most stressful life events- it’s up there with the death of a loved one. After the initial shock, when you may feel like you were just hit by a truck, sadness and loneliness often take over. You may...
- How To Find The Best Therapist To Help You Overcome Chronic Stress And Depression When you are feeling down, everything may seem like an uphill battle that you have to face alone. Finding the right therapist to help you with depression might seem overwhelming, even when you know counseling will help you feel better. To overcome chr...
- Why Self-Care Matters How to pay attention to your inner emotional barometer, nurture yourself, and avoid burnout Do you feel drained at the end of the day to the extent that you feel you have nothing left to give to your family? Do you find yourself snapping or yelling at...
- Avoid the Post-Holiday Blues When the holidays are over, how do you keep the blues away and go back to everyday life? Here are some ideas. The holidays can be emotionally charged- whether they are exciting, stressful, or full of anxious anticipation. It can take weeks, or ...
Postpartum Depression
- “Why Do I Feel So Blue When I Finally Have My Baby?” 7 Ways to Cope with Post-Partum Depression Feelings of Depression Soon After Childbirth Are Common… Most mothers (60%-80%) experience some emotional sensitivity, also known as “the baby blues” in the first week after childbirth. These feelings usually spontaneously subside within 24 - 7...
- Why Mother-Infant Bonding Matters Have you ever wondered how you can best enable your child to thrive emotionally; feel confident; be inquisitive; develop healthy peer relationships; and be able to manage stress? Many of the answers can be found in mother-infant bonding. Babies activ...
Infertitlity
- How to Alleviate Stress Before and During IVF Treatment In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) can be life-transforming when it works. Unfortunately, it can also be a source of physical and emotional stress for both partners. While emotional distress is inherent to infertility, IVF protocols have a number of stress...
- Why Women And Men Seem To Experience Infertility Treatment So Differently Infertility and its treatment can be very stressful, causing tension and strain in even the strongest relationships. Although the stress due to Infertility affects both men and women, they tend to experience it differently. This article explains w...
- 8 Ways To Reduce Stress While Trying To Conceive Did you know that one out of six couples have problems getting or staying pregnant? It is hard to be positive and not be worried when you face negative pregnancy test results month after month. It is common to feel disappointed, angry, guilty and str...
- Yes, You Can Survive The Holidays - Even if You Are Not Yet Pregnant! If you are you dreading the upcoming holiday season, you are probably not alone. Holidays can be a wonderful time to get together with friends and family, but often, you can easily become stressed because you do not have the child that you have be...
- How to Survive the Emotional Rollercoaster of Infertility When you are trying to conceive, the beginning of your cycle each month can be a time where you feel encouraged and optimistic. You are hopeful that perhaps this time you will get pregnant. And when this doesn't occur, you may find that when pregnancy eva...
Pregnancy and Pregnancy Loss
- Are You Trying To Be Super Woman At Work During Pregnancy? How to find middle ground between extreme work-related stress and self-care during pregnancy Are you pregnant and always on the go? Are you still working as much at your office or with your kids and never seem to sit down and catch a breath even tho...
- Finding Hope After Pregnancy Loss Losing a baby at any stage of pregnancy can be a big loss! It is estimated that 10-25% of pregnancies end up in miscarriages and less than 1% in still births, making miscarriages a fairly common occurrence. The Emotional Impact of Miscarriages on W...
- How to Survive a High Risk Pregnancy For most women pregnancy is a joyful event. However, if you are facing a high-risk pregnancy it can feel like a rollercoaster of stress, anxiety and fear. If you are pregnant and diagnosed with gestational diabetes, preeclamsia, carry multiples, or hav...
Parenting
- The Mind-Boosting Benefits of Motherhood The Mind-Boosting Benefits of Motherhood How Motherhood Can Improve Your Mental Skills, Intelligence, and Preparedness for the Working World If you have a baby or small children, you may often feel like you have permanently lost your mind, leaving it b...
- Do Children of Older Parents Suffer? Do Children of Older Parents Suffer? The Hardships and Rewards of Children Born to Older Parents Increasingly more children are being born to parents in their forties. In my previous article, I addressed the advantages and disadvantages of having chil...
- Are You Too Old To Be A Mom? ARE YOU TOO OLD TO BE A MOM? The hardships and rewards of having a baby in your 40s The age of first-time moms in the Western World is increasing. More and more, women delay motherhood, voluntarily as they spend time on their education and carriers,...
