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Kelsey | Holistic Therapist | 📍MI

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Nervous system, somatic & biologically informed women’s mental health
Your hormones aren’t broken, society is.

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The eating tho! Mamas you need to eat.

If you’re feeling anxious or overwhelmed and you haven’t eaten a solid meals in the last 2-3 hours…EAT! 🍔🌮🥑🍌🥓🍳🧀🥩

#matrescence #postpartum #postpartumanxiety #postpartumdepression #maternalmentalhealth #holisticmom #holistictherapy by @partsofamother

Coming back to this space and seeing where it takes me 🙂 by @partsofamother

So grateful for all that my babies have taught me and will continue to 💗

They have in their own ways challenged me. To let go of control. To truly meet them where they are. To truly be their source of safety no matter how inconvenient that is to modern life.

Featuring the stroller I was about to sell because lil babe was in her kangaroo or bust era lol

#motherhood #postpartum #nurture by @partsofamother

I didn’t get here because I learned some great sleep hack. I got here because I stopped trying to fix it.

Yes my two babies are very different but I started making this shift when my oldest whose sleep was extremely challenging. Not just because I had unrealistic expectations, she was just wired differently.

On the surface I simply changed my mindset around sleep, I just accepted infant/toddler sleep for what it is. But that actually required and continues to require de-conditioning deeply held beliefs little by little.

The result- my body has relaxed. Each night waking doesn’t send an alarm off in my brain that something is wrong or I’m doing something wrong. I wake enough to nurse and drift right back off to sleep together.

I trust that my baby will show me she’s tired and asleep when she’s ready.

I cannot express the grief I feel for the version of myself that spent hours isolated in a dark room with a sound machine trying to get my baby to sleep.

She didn’t know being a “good mom” didn’t require trying so hard. That life didn’t really require trying so hard.

#postpartum #sleeptraining #motherhood by @partsofamother

The ads 🙄

Selling on fear and the natural desire to protect your baby but only create hyper vigilance, disconnection of mother-baby dyad, and self doubt. Perfect recipe for anxiety.

Inspired by the commercials of whatever the hell Nanit is that suggests I need a camera to watch my baby all night to give stats to prove they’re safe 🤡

No thanks, that’s my job and I was literally wired for it 😏

#postpartum #anxiety #motherhood by @partsofamother

From my experience, especially in motherhood it’s often having so much on the line you go against what everyone thinks you “should do.”

It’s knowing when fear is in the driver pushing you toward the easier answer. It’s tolerating that fear because you *just might * not have anything to be afraid of but instead something more beautiful than you could have ever imagined 😮‍💨

#motherhood #intuition #deconditioning by @partsofamother

Me reminding myself discomfort of guilt can = growth

Parts of me want to compensate. Push my capacity. Take on a like more. But I know she’s driven by fear, fear of strings attached to support or building resentment.

She doesn’t learn safety without exposure ❤️‍🩹

Follow along @partsofamother for more on motherhood, deconditioning & becoming yourself from a mom + therapist figuring it out, too

#partswork #motherhood #therapy by @partsofamother

If this is you I have two things:

1. Learn as much as you can about the science of breastfeeding and other cultures. Like it’s beyond incredible what our bodies are capable of. Knowledge is power here 🧠 💪

2. Reflection!!!
Where are your beliefs about productivity coming from? How was rest treated in your house growing up? How does culture impact you? What emotion is associated with “not doing anything?”

Are these beliefs actually serving you and your values as a mother?

#Breastfeeding #postpartum #therapy by @partsofamother

Pregnancy and birth are opportunities for women to feel their most powerful. That should be recognized wherever they choose to receive care or how they birth.

But so many of us are conditioned not to question authority. So even the most outspoken women become quiet in the presence of their care providers or back down when something said doesn’t sit right with them.

That shrinking feeling, feeling like you’re 6 years old in trouble, or spiraling into your thoughts just might be a sign there’s something to tend to. An opportunity to step into your power as a mother. Don’t ignore it 🚩

#motherhood #therapy #pregnancy by @partsofamother

Grateful for a job that allows me to show up in the in betweens of my day. To show up human. To model having a life outside of working.

#therapist #momtherapy #breastfeeding by @partsofamother

We cannot make informed choices without information. There is no right choice for each of these for optimal maternal mental health but we do need to know how different options impact us.

That’s why 1:1 support is key. To have someone take in the big picture and highlight where we might have opportunities to improve our unique situations.

Even if we’re past some of the decision making points regarding any of these topics, we can still address the beliefs and emotions associated with them.

#maternalmentalhealth #motherhood #postpartum #therapist by @partsofamother

Maybe motherhood didn’t make me less ambitious. Maybe it made me realize how much of my definition of “success” was built around being productive, instead of actually living.

That kind of change takes more than just slowing down. It takes the inner work of questioning the rules, expectations, and beliefs that taught you your worth had to be earned in the first place.

If you need me between client sessions I’ll be on the couch with a sleeping baby in deep reflection 😌

#motherhood #postpartum #therapist by @partsofamother