You sign your child up for a sports team, submit payment, and then pause as your eyes scan the website copy – they need parent volunteers.

Have an open dialogue and create a period kit to help ease anxiety.

Why can’t tens of thousands of women, birthing persons, and partners get timely access to perinatal mental health care?

I was thrust into motherhood believing my instinct would kick in. Instead, being a mom threw me into an earth-shattering identity crisis. 

He seemed to only have the strength to cry, and I couldn't even hold his hand. I thought my baby was going to die.

It was my teen years when I became acutely aware that I was, (a) overweight and, (b) didn’t fit the textbook definition of prettiness. 

Envy. It’s one of those emotions we chastise ourselves for. We push the feeling down, and tell ourselves it’s a negative way to think. But what if it's not?