Motherhood is beautiful and consuming. It's easy to pour everything into your children and lose sight of the woman beneath the role.

You can rediscover who you are outside of motherhood.

You can rediscover who you are outside of motherhood.

Motherhood is beautiful and consuming. It's easy to pour everything into your children and lose sight of the woman beneath the role.

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Your body knows what you’re experiencing in motherhood.

When you're overwhelmed, drained, depleted, and constantly needed, your nervous system stays in overdrive. Your body is working hard to keep up. The good news is your body also holds the answers to what you're experiencing right now. Here's what typically brings mothers to therapy:

  • Every time you want something for yourself, the guilt creeps in. And it’s there again when you lose patience, when you yell, when you feel like you're just not doing a good enough job.

  • When your child melts down, you feel something rise in you – and what surprises you is your own reaction.

  • Your child needs to feel safe and emotionally held in ways you're still learning to give.

  • You’ve been needed for so long that the woman you were feels like a distant memory, and the overwhelm has left you disconnected from who you actually are.

Here’s how we move through it.

Building regulation, and reclaiming your sense of self.

Whether you're parenting multiples, navigating a child's medical complexities, managing family dynamics that make parenting harder, struggling with meltdowns, or facing any number of unique circumstances, you're not alone in this. I've worked with mothers through all of it, and I know how each situation lives differently in your body. That's where we start.

In our work together, we'll start by noticing which situations activate you most — the moments when you feel your body tighten, your patience wear thin, your frustration rise. We'll learn what regulation actually feels like for you, so you can recognize it and come back to it when you need to. And we'll work on communicating your boundaries as a mother while learning to let guilt go.

REACH OUT

If finding quiet space is hard, we can brainstorm solutions together.

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Recommended Resources

Here are some resources I recommend to navigating motherhood and rediscovering themselves.

  • Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy

  • Matresence by Lucy Jones

  • Self-Compassion Institute by Kristin Neff (assessment for free on her website)

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Let’s Start the Conversation.

Take the first step and schedule a 15-minute consultation. Your authentic self deserves to be heard and supported.