Category Archives: Self-Care
Holidays Can Be Tough! Try these 3 tips!
The holidays are almost over! Holidays can be bitter sweet. Depending on your relationship with your family or your in-laws, this might be a time where you feel loved and celebrated and taken care of. There are extra hands and extra … Continue reading
Therapy at home helps new moms cope with depression
More evidence to show that counseling mothers in their homes has a huge impact on lessening symptoms of postpartum depression. Counseling Reduces Postpartum Depression At-Home Therapy Helps New Mothers Cope with Depressive Symptoms by Brenda Lane A significant number of … Continue reading
How to get a good night’s sleep
Want a Good Night’s Sleep? Then Never Do These Things Before Bed Posted By Dr. Mercola | October 02 2010 Sleep is one of the great mysteries of life. Like gravity or the quantum field, we still don’t understand exactly why we sleep—although … Continue reading
Volunteer Grandparent helps mom with postpartum depression
AS WE AGE: Volunteer Grandparents making a real impact (reposted from burnaby newsleader blog) By Nicole Clark – Burnaby NewsLeader Published: August 09, 2011 12:00 PM Updated: August 09, 2011 1:59 PM Seema Patel hit a low point in her life after the … Continue reading
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Tagged Postpartum Depression, volunteer grandmother
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Insufficient sleep linked to increased incidence of postpartum depression
Postpartum depression higher in sleep deprived moms Published on July 21, 2009 by Dennis Rosen, M.D. in Sleeping Angels Depression after childbirth, or postpartum depression, occurs in between 13-20% of women. Its onset is usually a few weeks after childbirth, and many risk factors … Continue reading
Posted in PPD Causes, Sleep and Rest
Tagged moms sleep, postnatal depression, Postpartum Depression, ppd, Self-Care, sleep, sleep for moms
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Taking Action – Making a Goal a REAL Part of your Life!
Last week I shared the concept of S.M.A.R.T. goals and how you can apply them in your mothering life (or any area of your life). If you did not have a chance to read the newsletter or you are a … Continue reading
Posted in Mothering, Self-help
Tagged action plan, action plans, mothering, mothering goals, parenting, Postpartum Depression, taking action, the mommy blues
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Turn your vision into SMART GOALS
Last week I posted an exercise called the Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow exercise. I hope you took the time out for yourself to sit down and write about those three areas of your life (relationships, occupation and health). If not, … Continue reading
What is your vision for 2015?
The beginning of a new school year! If you live in America and have school age children, you will now be a few weeks or a month into the new school year. I don’t know about you but I always … Continue reading
How to take care of yourself?
Following Monday’s newsletter and blog, I received wonderful feedback from mothers who agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment of taking care of ourselves so that our loved ones are not responsible for our care. However, the question reamins – HOW? How … Continue reading
Posted in Self-help
Tagged balance wheel, new baby, Postpartum Depression, Self-Care, self-help, the mommy blues, themommyblues
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If we don't take care of ourselves..
I heard a very powerful thing the other day. A friend of mine said to me: “Well, if we don’t take care of ourselves, someone else is going to end up doing it.” It got me thinking because when I … Continue reading
Posted in Self-help
Tagged mothering, mothers, Postpartum Depression, self love, Self-Care, self-nurturing, themommyblues
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Identify your Top 5 Values and Watch your TRUE Self Emerge!
Yesterday (12/29/09) in my post “5 Steps to Smarter New Year’s Resolutions” I talked about making sure the goals you choose for next year are based on your values. However, values are not always easy to determine because: They are … Continue reading
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Tagged dreams, goal-setting, my values, Postpartum Depression, top values, values, values-based goals, vision
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5 Steps to SMARTER New Year's Resolutions
New Year’s Eve is upon us – a magical time for setting new goals and making changes. Would you like to harness some of that magic for yourself? Following these five steps will increase your chances of reaching your goals … Continue reading
Posted in Self-help
Tagged 2010 goals, goal-setting, goals for 2010, health, mothering, new year goals, new year's, new years resolutions
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A Lesson in Self Love – Lindy Bruce
Today, I will share a blog post by Lindy Bruce, author of Motherhood and Me. It was originally posted on her website on July 20th, 2009: Lindy Bruce – A Lesson in Self Love: “Yesterday, I had one of those “overwhelmed” … Continue reading
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Tagged Lindy Bruce, mother love, Motherhood and Me, mothering oneself, self love
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Follow the Mommy Blues on Facebook
For a daily dose of support for your mothering self – please consider joining The Mommy Blues, now new on Facebook. The Mommy Blues on Facebook Here are a couple of dailies: December 11, 2009: LIVE A LIFE OF EXTREME SELF-CARE … Continue reading
30 holiday cookie recipes in one!
It’s not like me at all to get excited over baking or cooking. I am incredibly fortunate (as are my children) to be married to someone who loves cooking. In fact, truth be told, preparing food is the thing that … Continue reading
Posted in Eating
Tagged 30 cookie recipes in one, baking, biscuit, cookie, recipe, thanksgiving
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What exactly is a Mother's Coach?
By now most people have heard of life coaching. In fact, it seems that every other person has become a Life Coach. Life Coaches usually specialize in an area of life coaching – a niche. My niche is coaching mothers. … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Help
Tagged baby sleep, coaching, Kim A Richardson, Kim Richardson, life coach, mother coaching, mother's coach, parent coach, sleep problems
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Telemedicine? the way of the future?
Psychotherapists, counselors and psychoanalysts have used the telephone for psychotherapy treatment for many years. Talk therapy is certainly possible and effective using the telephone and made even more effective with the lowered costs of video equipment and Skype. In my … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Help
Tagged phone counseling, phone therapy, skype counseling, telemedicine, telephone counseling
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Rough and Tumble Mothering
I know that I enjoy rough and tumble play with my 4-year-old twins. In fact I far prefer it to making barbie dolls or dinosaurs talk and walk and sit in plastic chairs. Play wrestling just feels good, and it’s … Continue reading
Sponsor a child – you can make a difference
My children are fortunate enough never to have seen a homeless child. Isn’t that amazing? Before moving to the USA in 2000 to marry my American husband, I grew up and lived my adult life in beautiful South Africa. I … Continue reading
Posted in Mothering Community
Tagged africa, aids, hiv, poverty, south africa, sponsor a child, world vision
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