Mind Body Treatment for Infertility

Here is a great link outlining some of the alternative treatments to be used while going through treatment for infertility (and great for general self-care!!):

http://infertility.about.com/od/alternativetreatments/ss/Mind-Body-Medicine-Therapies-For-Fertility.htm?nl=1

November is Prematurity Awareness Month

Did you know that 1 out of 8 babies are born premature?

13 million babies each year are born premature worldwide...

1 million of these babies died this year....

Please help support the March of Dimes in their efforts to help moms have full-term pregnancies and research the problems that threaten the health of babies! Check out their website to see how you can help:

http://www.marchofdimes.com/default.html

November 17th is World Prematurity Day, please honor and support anyone you know that has had a premature baby or who has suffered the loss of a baby.

Together, we can make a difference!

Mindful Mothering Conference at Museum of Motherhood in NYC

The first ever Mindful Mothering conference at the first-of-its-kind Museum of Motherhood (MOM) in New York City on November 7th Monday 8:30am-5:30pm! Dr. Jessica Zucker will be presenting at the day long, interactive event. Gather invaluable insight and tools to fortify the mothering process.

http://www.mommuseum.org/conference-nov-7/

Motherhood is Hard...

I hear this throughout my day in my psychotherapy office as I sit with moms. Working moms, stay at home moms, pregnant moms, women trying to get pregnant... As I race home from the office to the bus stop, thinking about all of the unfinished business at the office and obsessing about how to pull together a quick healthy dinner for the family, I often have the same thought, "Motherhood is hard". So why is it that in our culture we are bombarded with images with women keeping the "perfect" house and raising"perfect" kids, all without breaking a sweat? Commercials, television shows and movies continue to portray this unrealistic image of motherhood adding to the never ending guilt that we experience as mothers who never feel like we are doing enough. We all know rationally there is no such thing as the "perfect" anything, yet we seem to continue to place unrealistic expectations on ourselves and others around us.

My mission as a psychotherapist is to help support women and families to be the best they can be and to give permission to be perfectly imperfect. Everyday I have to remember to take my own advice and resist the urge to judge or criticize myself. The more we can help support each other in honoring our strengths and being mindful and forgiving our our challenges, we may just be able to give ourselves some credit for the hardest (and most rewarding) job ever!