Many women experience intrusive thoughts or images in the weeks after having their baby. Intrusive thoughts involve some type of harm happening to baby, which can be really scary and isolating. Continue reading “Scary Thoughts After Birth”
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Managing worry about the future
Managing worry about the future
Apprehensive worry involves worrying about the future, and it typically consists of focusing on worst-case scenarios. You see it all play out in your head: how making a necessary comment to your boss then somehow leads to you losing your job; how a routine medical investigation then means you are facing a horrible health outcome; how going for a job interview will result in rejection and humiliation; how spending time with your friends will somehow lead to everyone hating you. When you’re facing something that makes you a little anxious, it’s easy for your thoughts to take you to the worst-case scenarios, which will make you a lot anxious. And then you go over and over all the bad things that could happen, so the anxiety sticks around far longer than what is helpful. Continue reading “Managing worry about the future”
Childbirth: The Good and the Traumatic
Childbirth: The Good and the Traumatic
It’s really common to be apprehensive towards the end of your pregnancy regarding what will happen during labour. You do your birth plan, and hope things will work out ideally. Continue reading “Childbirth: The Good and the Traumatic”
Gender Disappointment in Pregnancy
Gender Disappointment in Pregnancy
Even before you fall pregnant, you can start building your baby and future in your mind: Continue reading “Gender Disappointment in Pregnancy”
Premenstrual symptoms
Premenstrual symptoms
Most of us have heard of premenstrual syndrome: becoming irritable, anxious, or moody right before your monthly cycle. Continue reading “Premenstrual symptoms”
Judgement and Self-Doubt
Judgement and Self-Doubt
It’s not easy being a woman. Continue reading “Judgement and Self-Doubt”
Aspects of Stress and COVID-19
Aspects of Stress and COVID-19
Stress often results from overwhelming or difficult events (stressors), and tends to involve too much change, too much information, too many demands, or too much responsibility. Continue reading “Aspects of Stress and COVID-19”
Emotions are Messengers
Emotions are Messengers
I often hear people say things like, ‘I shouldn’t have felt this way’ Continue reading “Emotions are Messengers”
Understanding Panic
Understanding Panic
Panic attacks come on suddenly: sometimes in response to a clear trigger, sometimes after a build-up, and sometimes out of the blue. Continue reading “Understanding Panic”
Perinatal Anxiety: Symptoms, Risk Factors, and Treatment
Perinatal Anxiety: Symptoms, Risk Factors, and Treatment
Perinatal anxiety occurs during pregnancy or in the postnatal period (the first year after birth). Continue reading “Perinatal Anxiety: Symptoms, Risk Factors, and Treatment”
Four physiology hacks for anxiety
Four physiology hacks for anxiety
Anxiety: it’s so physical. Anxiety activates your body’s fight or flight response, Continue reading “Four physiology hacks for anxiety”
Stress, fear, and anxiety
Stress, fear, and anxiety
The Fight or Flight Response
Anxiety, fear, and stress all activate our body’s stress response, also called the ‘Fight or Flight’ response. This causes several physiological changes to help us respond to danger or a threat. Continue reading “Stress, fear, and anxiety”