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Perinatal Mental Health

From Fairy Tale to Reality: When Fantasies About Motherhood Face a Brick Wall.
The hidden grief of unmet motherhood expectations and ways to cope with the loss of fantasies through CBT techniques and the Dual Process Model of…
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Perfect Madness: Motherhood as the Antidote for Perfectionism?
About perfectionism in motherhood, why do we struggle and how we can overcome it with self-compassion, values, and good-enoughness.
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Maternal Mental Health: Is Struggle the Norm or a Problem?
Shocking Statistics, Differentiating Between Mental Health Difficulties and Normal Struggles, and How Effectively Support Mothers.
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Spring in Motherhood: Weeding Out the Comparisons
Breaking the Vicious Cycle by Overcoming Motherhood's Comparison Trap with Thought Challenging, Self-Compassion, and Gratitude
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Motherhood - Guilty as Charged?
Personal reflections on maternal guilt, evolutionary perspective on guilt, justified and toxic guilt and ways to cope
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…Navigating Postpartum Body Image
Accepting and embracing the nowness within our bodies and reframing self-perception through mirror exercise
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Mantras for Mamas - 5 STEPS for a Pep Talk
The Art and Science of positive affirmations in motherhood; 5 simples steps to create your own positive affirmations/mantras
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When Imperfect Parenting IS Perfect
About perfectly imperfect parents, good enough parenting, Still Face Experiment and ways to reduce high standards
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Hopeful Parenting in a Hopeless World
About overwhelmed parents, high sensitive people and grounding ourselves in our values.
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Dear Me, Will You Be My Valentine?
Celebrating Self-Love: An Invitation to Write Your Own Valentine's Day Card
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Aleksandra Balazy-Knas
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The Parenting Parity. Shifting Gender Paradigms
On Gender Imbalance in Parenting: How Can We Challenge Societal Norms?
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Hitting the Bulls Eye of Your Values
About goals, values, the Bull's Eye worksheet, and my debut on the voice recorder!
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