One of my favorite ways to support women is to allow a safe place to be completely honest about how overwhelming and difficult life is when you are a mother. It’s very important to acknowledge how things really are. Not as a competition or in a judgmental way. Not in a positive or negative / good or bad way. And not to feed into more negativity. Just talking about it truthfully because the truth matters, and I think it’s helpful to look at things rationally (i.e. This and that, not either/or.)

Regardless of whether or not the curve has begun to flatten, our way of life is likely going to be different from now on in many ways. Let’s embrace the changes that will make us healthier. Why strive to “get back to normal” when we can evolve to be better than before?

Finding a therapist is already an intimidating experience for most people, so adding the crisis of a global pandemic to the mix could be paralyzing to say the least. Perhaps it’s time to dispel a few myths about starting therapy online during the coronavirus outbreak and addres the reasons why you may be considering COVID-19 to be the perfect excuse to hold off on contacting a therapist. (Psst, it isn’t.)