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Rosé Sunsets and Catheters
6 o’clock in the morning. Good morning. I pull into the parking lot of our local emergency room. Thank God there’s a spot closish to the...
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Oct 28, 20213 min read
The Voices in My Head
I want to give you a little peak into the wild world of my thinking mind It’s buzzing, loud, frantic, eloquent, argumentative,...
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Oct 27, 20212 min read
What’s Wrong with You
So what is really wrong with us anyway? We have our diagnoses of postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety or postpartum psychosis. We...
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Apr 14, 20212 min read
Mistaken Identity
It’s amazing, I lived the first 33 years of my life without the slightest clue of who I was. It was a tremendous case of mistaken...
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Mar 19, 20212 min read
Maybe Losing Your Mind is the Goal
There’s a little phrase that get’s thrown around quite a bit in the world of mental health with a whole lot of emotion attached. You...
kkeenvela
Oct 6, 20202 min read
Parenting is Not an IQ Test
How good of a parent do you think you would be without your brain? Now I realize that is a silly question because you couldn’t do...
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Sep 29, 20202 min read
You Were Designed to Feel Good
Would you believe me if I told you that we were designed to feel good? My amazing coach told me that the other day, and I kind of gagged...
kkeenvela
Sep 17, 20202 min read
How to be Free of Unwanted Thoughts and Feelings
You might already know what I’m going to say in this post, but I’m going to say it anyway. It has to do with the true nature of recovery...
kkeenvela
Sep 1, 20202 min read
Your Inner Ninja
As you’ve probably noticed, a massive component of my experience (what most people would call postpartum depression or postpartum...
kkeenvela
Aug 20, 20202 min read
A Reintroduction to Your Brain, the Admin
Have you ever been to a business where one of the lower level employees is clearly way out of line? Please don’t get hung up on gender...
kkeenvela
Aug 11, 20203 min read
The Movie of ME
Today we're going a little deeper into why it doesn't make sense to pay attention to the thoughts and feeling that pass through us. As...
kkeenvela
Jul 28, 20203 min read
It Won't Get Bigger Than You
This past week, we welcomed our second daughter, Noelia, into the world. Her timing was truly impeccable. Contractions started early in...
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Jul 15, 20203 min read
Awaiting A New Birth
Today (7/1/2020) is the due date for my second daughter, and here we are, waiting. A wild and inexplicable thing that is both completely...
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Jul 1, 20203 min read
You Are Not Your Thoughts
In today’s culture, we tend to take our thoughts very seriously. People get very fired up about their thoughts – what parenting method we...
kkeenvela
Jun 25, 20203 min read
You Feel What you Think
We live in a culture that has very much bought into the misunderstanding that external forces create our internal experience. Here are...
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Jun 16, 20203 min read
Insomnia in Postpartum Depression and Postpartum Anxiety
I spoke last week about my experience of heart palpitations after giving birth. This week I’m going to talk about another symptom that is...
kkeenvela
Jun 10, 20202 min read
Postpartum Heart Palpitations
I’m going to write a series of blog posts about some of the different symptoms that I experienced after giving birth that caused me great...
kkeenvela
Jun 1, 20202 min read
How to Treat Postpartum Depression or Postpartum Anxiety: From SSRI’s to Chinese Skin Pinching
I tried a lot of things, and I mean A LOT of things to “cure” my postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety. My first stop was a local...
kkeenvela
May 26, 20202 min read
Seeing the Role of Habit in Postpartum Depression and Postpartum Anxiety
I know that I’ve already talked about how I don’t feel that the classification of postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety as...
kkeenvela
May 19, 20204 min read
Who Are You, Really?
There is a specific comment that I often see on support groups for Postpartum Depression and Postpartum Anxiety. It goes something like...
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May 12, 20202 min read
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