You feel as though you’re drowning, and that you’re pulling those you love most down with you. You’re drained but anxious, exhausted but sleepless. You’ve never felt more alone, and yet you’re never alone, because you’re responsible for another life. You feel guilty for missing the before times, guilty for needing alone time, guilty for not being enough, or doing enough, and yet you can’t do anymore because you’re already totally depleted. You’re rageful and shameful, paralyzed by fatigue, overwhelm, and under-support.

There is no defined timeline to the postpartum period. The postpartum period lasts as long as it lasts, and you don’t have to go it alone. In fact, you’re not supposed to! Being little more than apes, we humans are meant to live in a community that knows it takes a village to raise children and their mothers. In the absence of the collective support our ancestors enjoyed, you can make use of the support you do have–like a therapist who is just like a trusted guide who’s here to support you when you need it most.

In concert with a therapist who understands with her whole heart and body what you’re going through, you can find connection to the part of you that can heal, strengthen, nourish, and restore. Together, you practice tools and techniques that will help you navigate the ever unfolding change that is motherhood. You’ll learn that while it doesn’t necessarily get easier, it does get different in ways that you can learn to manage with strength, curiosity, and joy. You can be the mother you have always dreamt of being–she’s within you, now, mothering you, guiding you to reach out for help.