by Michelle Mansfield | Jun 30, 2022 | Adjustment, Anxiety, baby blues, Busy Mom, Change, Depression, Happiness, Healthy Woman, Holistic Health, Hormones, maternal mental health, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Motherhood, new parents, Parenting, Parenting tips, parents, Perinatal Mood Disorder, Postpartum, Postpartum Anxiety, Postpartum Depression, Self Care, stress
We see photos, hear stories, watch friends hold their new babies, and have this message ingrained into us that we will be immediately in love with being a mom. And being immediately in love with our baby. For some, this does happen. And that’s OK. For others,... 
by Michelle Mansfield | Apr 21, 2022 | Adjustment, Anxiety, baby blues, Busy Mom, Change, Depression, Happiness, Healthy Family, Healthy marriage, Healthy Woman, Holistic Health, Hormones, marriage, marriage challenges, marriage issues, maternal mental health, Mental Health, Motherhood, new parents, Parenting, Parenting tips, parents, partnership, Perinatal Mood Disorder, Postpartum, Postpartum Anxiety, Postpartum Depression, Relationships, resentment, Self Care, stress
It’s OK to say this out loud. There will be days where you are shooting daggers out to your partner because you feel they aren’t helping enough, doing what you need, supporting you the way you want to be supported now that you’re BOTH parents.... 
by Michelle Mansfield | Mar 31, 2022 | Adjustment, Anxiety, baby blues, Busy Mom, Change, Depression, Happiness, Healthy Woman, Holistic Health, Hormones, Lifestyle, maternal mental health, Mental Health, Motherhood, Parenting, Parenting tips, Perinatal Mood Disorder, Postpartum, Postpartum Anxiety, Postpartum Depression, Self Care, stress
I’ve always had guilt in some capacity throughout my life. Then came motherhood and BAM! My guilt amplified & took on an entirely new form. I tried to hide it. Push it away. Ignore it. Nothing worked. It ate at me. Was I spending enough time with Brooklyn?... 
by Michelle Mansfield | Jun 17, 2021 | Adjustment, Anxiety, baby blues, Busy Mom, Change, Depression, Happiness, Healthy Woman, Hormones, Lifestyle, maternal mental health, Mental Health, Motherhood, Parenting, Parenting tips, Perinatal Mood Disorder, Postpartum, Postpartum Anxiety, Postpartum Depression, Self Care, stress
Where is the life that you loved and what life have you been thrown into? I will admit, I had a bit more time to get a little too comfortable in the land of “Me” before my daughter was born. I’m probably considered an “old mom” in today’s standards. Living in the... 
by Michelle Mansfield | May 18, 2020 | Adjustment, Anxiety, baby blues, Busy Mom, Change, Depression, Happiness, Healthy Family, Healthy Woman, Holistic Health, Hormones, Lifestyle, maternal mental health, Mental Health, Motherhood, Parenting, Parenting tips, Perinatal Mood Disorder, Postpartum, Postpartum Anxiety, Postpartum Depression, stress
Brooklyn arrived into the world on February 22nd at 6:27am. By 7:30am I had a lactation nurse in my room bringing my baby to me for my first dose of mom reality. I wasn’t even given time to longingly stare at my baby where before I knew it, she propped me up with... 
by Michelle Mansfield | Mar 10, 2020 | Adjustment, Anxiety, baby blues, Busy Mom, Change, Depression, Happiness, Healthy Family, Healthy Woman, Holistic Health, Hormones, maternal mental health, Mental Health, Motherhood, Parenting, Parenting tips, Perinatal Mood Disorder, Postpartum, Postpartum Anxiety, Postpartum Depression, Relationships, stress
What’s more awkward? Sitting on the couch at your parents’ house on Easter Sunday as a converted Jew or your pastor brother asking about the book you’re writing about your postpartum depression experience? Where everyone around you turns their heads and widens their... 
