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New Jersey: Part Two: Women’s Reproductive Health Events
Originally posted May 20, 2013. Spring was a great time for Women’s Reproductive Health events in New Jersey. I was fortunate enough to...


Postpartum Depression – Stand Up for Mental Health Blog Hop
Originally posted January 26, 2013. I’m re-posting my previous blog about my experience with postpartum depression for Stand Up For...


Co-parenting Through Divorce: Part One: Finding Strength Within as You Redefine the Self
Originally posted January 4, 2013. As you go through your divorce, do you think you are acting out your unconscious hurts and anger on...


No Easy Tips to Cope with the Sandy Hook Tragedy
Originally posted December 15, 2012. There are no easy tips for coping with the tragedy of the loss the families in Sandy Hook,...


Snooki – Our Jersey Girl as a Public Health Role Model?
Originally published November 5, 2012. Unless you live under a rock and don’t go out at all, you have to know that Jersey Shore’s Nicole...


New Study: Chronic Stress During Pregnancy Increases Risk for Postpartum Depression
Originally posted October 15, 2012. Benedetta Leuner, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State University,...


Coming out of the closet about depression and postpartum depression
Originally posted October 10, 2012. I’m re-posting a previous blog that I wrote for World Mental Health Day. As I said before, as an LPC,...


Hel-loooo Birth World – the Sky is Blue: Part Two of an Interview with Walker Karraa MFA, MA CD(DONA
Originally posted July 9, 2012. “Pregnant and postpartum women are particularly vulnerable to mood and anxiety disorders, and it is life...


Do It YourSelf-Care DIY-Care for Marriage Therapy
Originally posted June 7, 2012. ”Positive feeling systems must be built and maintained intentionally (as part of couples therapy or...


BirthTouch® Book Proofs Have Arrived this Weekend!
Originally posted June 4, 2012. I am happy to say that the proofs for my BirthTouch® books have finally arrived! I wrote the first...


Do It YourSelf-Care DIY-Care Garden Therapy!
Originally posted May 29, 2012. ”Therapeutic horticulture...provides positive distraction and attentional engagement…(which) mediates ...
Bullied as an Adult: Making Sense of Mean-ness ?
Originally posted May 18, 2012. For the American Psychological Association’s Blog Party for Mental Health Month, I decided to write about...


Fight Internalized Sexism – TIME Magazine’s Sexist Cover
Originally posted May 13, 2012. Celebrate Good Enough Mothering! Celebrate Mother’s Day! The mass media has done it again. Time has added...


Don’t Eat Yellow Snow! Increase the Joy! Decrease the Drama! About Companion Pets!
Originally posted April 11, 2012. "Pets respond eagerly to care and attention, offering unconditional love and non-threatening...


Grant Funded Community Doula Program
Originally posted April 6, 2012. Jill Gerken Wodnick has written a Guest Post about the Hudson Perinatal Community Doula Project for...


New Research – Changes in Labor Patterns Over 50 Years
Originally published April 2, 2012. New research was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Katherine Laughon,...


Guest Community Manager(April) for Lamaze
Originally posted April 1, 2012. Science and Sensibility I am honored and hope that I can do a good job for Lamaze International for the...


#OccupyHealthCare #MindBody Practices – They are FREE
Originally published March 12, 2012. Mindbody practices have so many benefits, you’d have to order online from outside the US to be able...


Share Your Story: Janet ‘The Laundress’ Postpartum Psychosis Story
Originally published February 27, 2012. Share Your Story – Postpartum Psychosis Janet’s Experience – Postpartum Psychosis & Recovery...


Share Your Story – Ann Kirchner’s Birth Trauma and Postpartum Depression Story
Originally published February 20, 2012. Share Your Story – New series from BirthTouch! Ann Kirchner, CD(DONA) has graciously agreed to...
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