brennaleslieJun 5, 20214 minPostpartum Realness: How to Find the Right TherapistThere is an old adage: Any therapy is better than no therapy. (Ok well, at least I know many people who think this way.) At any rate, I...
brennaleslieMay 4, 20216 minPostpartum Realness: Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders As this month begins not only Mental Health Awareness Month but also MATERNAL Mental Health Month, I find it important to provide as much...
brennaleslieDec 9, 20201 minPostpartum Realness: Quarantine Pregnancies and PPD10 months into the Pandemic means an onslaught on mothers who have gone their entire pregnancies in quarantine times and now giving birth...
brennaleslieNov 25, 20201 minPostpartum Realness: Human Connection 🍂🍃 I’M THANKFUL FOR HUMAN CONNECTION 🍃🍂 • • • As a new mom, or a mom in 2020, getting access to human connection in the way that...
brennaleslieNov 13, 20202 minPostpartum Realness: Stay (Cozy) at Home 2020: The Year of the Home. As much as we'd love to live in denial, the fact of the matter is that 2020 has been spent largely (you...
brennaleslieSep 24, 20201 minPostpartum Realness: Working from Home...with kids. I was recently featured in an article that interviewed moms who are managing (aka juggling) (aka doing the best they possibly can day by...
brennaleslieSep 19, 20203 minPostpartum Realness: Preparing for PostpartumWhen I think about it, I can almost feel the palpable excitement and straight up fear of preparing for baby: getting the aesthetic of the...
brennaleslieSep 13, 20204 minPostpartum Realness: The Trouble with Self-CareSelf-Care (n). the practice of taking an active role in protecting one's own well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of...
brennaleslieAug 16, 20204 minPostpartum Realness: Mom Guilt Here I am, 3 and a half years into this mom gig and just about every day I'm plagued with a bad case of the "shoulds". I should be waking...
brennaleslieJul 19, 20204 minPostpartum Realness: Parenting During COVIDAll at once the world changed. Mid March, my family was finally recovered from what felt like an eternity of one sickness after another...
brennaleslieJul 5, 20204 minPostpartum Realness: Postpartum Sleep As I write this on the morning after the 4th of July, I am reminded of the 4 hardest nights for postpartum moms in the U.S. (or moms in...
brennaleslieJun 29, 20203 minPostpartum Realness: Who Am I?As I sit here on my couch in June 2020, writing my first blog on my professional website for my private practice, I am baffled at where I...