My baby has been screaming for what feels like hours. She won’t nap unless I hold her. How the hell am I supposed to hold her nonstop and still care for my other children? I’m sweaty from having her pressed up against me for so long. My arms feel sore, heavy. My neck aches from […]
“I finally had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn’t look at her. I couldn’t hold her and I couldn’t sing to her and I couldn’t smile at her … All I wanted to do was disappear and die. … If I had been diagnosed with any other disease, I would have run to […]
Hello and an early Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! I will admit, I kind of used to dread Mother’s Day. When my kids were little, the last thing I wanted to do was take the three of them out of the house! The perfect Mother’s Day really would have been a […]
Tomorrow….it’s gonna be May! (::cue Justin Timberlake::) And May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month! Since a lot of you are new here, you may not know that I am both trained and certified in perinatal and maternal mental health. One of my many passions is focusing on mothers and their unique needs in terms […]
“Blank slate” (or tabula rasa) therapy: a traditional psychoanalytic technique where the therapist remains neutral, anonymous, and unexpressive to allow clients to project their own internal feelings, experiences, and relationship distortions onto them. _________________________________________________________________________________________ The above definition is how a lot of therapists are taught to approach therapy. It’s how I was taught and how […]
Three years ago, I wrote this blog about removing my wisdom teeth. Since then, both of my oldest daughters have had theirs removed (which was much harder than my procedure btw), and I recently had a frenectomy, because I guess I had a lip tie as a baby? (who knew). Anyway, it was time to […]
Last week we explored 5 myths of therapy with the hope of encouraging you to not be too scared to seek out therapy if you need it! For so many of us, just the decision to get help is one that took years to muster up the courage to ask for, and I like to […]
Hello and Happy New Year! Even though New Years Day was 5 days ago, a lot of people (myself included) felt like it didn’t really start until yesterday (New Years starting right before a weekend is weird, yes?). Yesterday felt like the real start – the day I decided to stop eating everything in sight, […]
Erin Newton has been a therapist for over a decade. In that time she has worked with 100’s of individuals, couples, and families in both clinic and group private practice settings. She specializes in birth trauma, maternal and perinatal mental health, work with first responders, and clients with OCD and other anxiety related issues. She has been […]