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How to Support a NICU Parent: Do’s and Don’ts
Having a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can be one of the most overwhelming, stressful, and emotionally draining experiences for new parents. Parents of NICU babies face a unique set of challenges, from the emotional toll of watching their newborn struggle to the logistical demands of balancing hospital visits with everyday responsibilities. If you know someone navigating the NICU journey, offering your support can make a tremendous difference. But often, people don’t know what to say or do to truly help.
Tomorrow kicks off NICU Awareness Week, so in honor of that, here are some do’s and don’ts to help you support any NICU parents in your life.
Supporting Your Partner Through Trauma - With the Help of Couples Therapy
When one person in a relationship is grappling with trauma, it can affect the entire relationship. Couples therapy offers a path to navigate these challenges together while fostering empathy, understanding, connection, and healing.
Navigating Health Anxiety: How Exposure Response Prevention Therapy Can Help
Health anxiety can consume your thoughts and disrupt daily life. Gabrielle writes about how ERP therapy might offer a path to relief.
Building a Solid Foundation - Expectations in Relationships
We all want healthy relationships - but where do you even start?
Build solid foundation with healthy expectations! Read Jeni’s perspective on where to begin.
When Our Expectations Don’t Match Reality: Navigating Infertility and Embracing a Childfree Life
For many, the journey to parenthood is filled with hope and dreams, but those don’t always come to fruition. Kelsey offers tools that might make that path a little bit more manageable.
What to Expect… When You’re Postpartum
Having a new baby comes with a lot of unknowns. Emily offers tips to help weather the uncertainty that comes with a new addition to your family.
4 Ways to Get Ahead of the Summer Scaries
Many of us spend all year pining for summer - and then when it arrives, it falls flat or whips by. Gabrielle writes about how to truly enjoy this time.
Finding Joy When Life Goes Sideways
Life doesn’t always go as planned. And then what? Jeni writes about continuing to cultivate joy while acknowledging other difficult emotions.
Holding Joy and Concern Concurrently - Summer Amidst the Climate Crisis
Navigating the duality of enjoying warmer weather and your concern for climate change can be hard - Kelsey shares techniques to help manage these feelings.
5 Common Cognitive Distortions
Gabrielle explains what a cognitive distortion is, and describes 5 that might pop up for you.
Becoming a “Medical Mom”
Jeni writes about her experience of navigating medical diagnoses in her family, and how she has found her own support team.
Understanding the Stages of Change
Gabrielle details the phases we move through when making lasting change.
Keeping the Spark All Year Long
Jeni gives her recommendations for keeping your relationship strong long after Valentine’s Day is over
The Fine Line Between Distraction and Avoidance
Gabrielle draws a distinction between distraction (which can be a helpful when it is intentional) and avoidance (which isn’t!)
Juggling Parenting and Partnership
Katy writes about how to manage two of our biggest roles - while not losing ourselves in the process.
The Roots of Perfectionism
Gabrielle writes about what’s really under that need to do everything right - and it might not be exactly what you think.
Besties - The Love That Deserves More Credit
Kelsey writes about how our friendships are one kind of love we all really need.
Self Discovery & Sexuality
Katy details how to begin to explore your relationship with your own sexuality.
Why You Need a Hobby
Jeni writes about why all adults should have at least one hobby - and shares her own.
I Failed! Now What??
We’re a few weeks into January - a pretty common time for all of those well-intentioned New Year’s Resolutions to fall apart. Whether you’re feeling icky about a resolution that went by the wayside or bailed on a different goal, Gabrielle writes about what to do when things didn’t pain out the way you’d hoped.