Postpartum Realness: How to Find the Right Therapist
There 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...
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brennaleslie
- May 3, 2021
- 6 min
Postpartum 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...
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brennaleslie
- Dec 8, 2020
- 1 min
Postpartum Realness: Quarantine Pregnancies and PPD
10 months into the Pandemic means an onslaught on mothers who have gone their entire pregnancies in quarantine times and now giving birth...
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brennaleslie
- Nov 25, 2020
- 1 min
Postpartum 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...
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brennaleslie
- Nov 13, 2020
- 2 min
Postpartum 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...
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brennaleslie
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min
Postpartum 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...
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brennaleslie
- Sep 19, 2020
- 3 min
Postpartum Realness: Preparing for Postpartum
When I think about it, I can almost feel the palpable excitement and straight up fear of preparing for baby: getting the aesthetic of the...
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brennaleslie
- Sep 13, 2020
- 4 min
Postpartum Realness: The Trouble with Self-Care
Self-Care (n). the practice of taking an active role in protecting one's own well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of...
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brennaleslie
- Aug 16, 2020
- 4 min
Postpartum 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...
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brennaleslie
- Jul 19, 2020
- 4 min
Postpartum Realness: Parenting During COVID
All at once the world changed. Mid March, my family was finally recovered from what felt like an eternity of one sickness after another...
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brennaleslie
- Jul 5, 2020
- 4 min
Postpartum 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...
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brennaleslie
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
Postpartum 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...
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