Healthy Ways to Manage Anger as a Dad

What makes you angry? Is it when you have asked your kiddo ten times to pick up their shoes, and then you trip on the shoes that are still in the middle of the hallway? Or maybe you feel angry when the baby is crying and just won’t stop crying. You know it is...

Breaking Stigmas: Men’s Mental Wellness After Baby

When I tell people that I specialize in Perinatal Mental Health, the most common response that I hear is “Oh, so you work with women.” I take the opportunity to remind the person that men welcome babies into the world too, and men experience mental health dips during...

Kala’s Ultimate Guide to Postpartum Planning

If you have been reading my blog, you know that I like to stress this point: You are important, and your mental health matters. As parents, it is so easy to get caught up in a chaos of caring for little ones that we forget to take care of ourselves. In my last post, I...

Practical Tips for Postpartum Mental Wellness

Over the past couple of posts, I have outlined the signs and symptoms of postpartum depression; provided education about other perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, such as postpartum anxiety and postpartum OCD; and shared about the postpartum rage experience. All of...