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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kkeenvela
- Oct 27, 2021
- 2 min
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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kkeenvela
- Apr 14, 2021
- 2 min
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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kkeenvela
- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
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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kkeenvela
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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kkeenvela
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
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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kkeenvela
- Sep 17, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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kkeenvela
- Sep 1, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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kkeenvela
- Aug 20, 2020
- 2 min
Your Inner Ninja
As you’ve probably noticed, a massive component of my experience (what most people would call postpartum depression or postpartum...
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kkeenvela
- Aug 11, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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kkeenvela
- Jul 28, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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kkeenvela
- Jul 15, 2020
- 3 min
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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kkeenvela
- Jul 1, 2020
- 3 min
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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kkeenvela
- Jun 25, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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kkeenvela
- Jun 16, 2020
- 3 min
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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kkeenvela
- Jun 10, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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kkeenvela
- Jun 1, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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kkeenvela
- May 26, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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kkeenvela
- May 19, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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kkeenvela
- May 12, 2020
- 2 min
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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