How to Protect Your Mental Health In a Pandemic: Live With Psychotherapist Nneka Symister, LCSW Understatement of the year: This pandemic has been one hell of an ass-kicker for moms. Due to factors like job losses and loss of childcare — both moms who work full time and stay-at-home moms alike — have found themselves taking on enormous workloads and … Read More
Revisiting Women and Work in the New Normal
Revisiting Women and Work in the New Normal (Panel for Daemen College) The Intersection of Children, Career, and COVID-19 What does the world look like now and how are we navigating these new challenges? Join me, and a diverse group of professional women, in a virtual panel with Daemen College on women and work in the new normal. We … Read More
Processing Compound Stress and Trauma in a Pandemic: TOTUM Talks
Processing Compound Stress and Trauma in a Pandemic: TOTUM Talks Not Safe For Mom Group (nsfmg) is so looking forward to joining our friends Megan Torres, LISW, and Erin Erenberg, Esq. of Totum Women, in the very first of TOTUM Women’s Totum Talk series. We’ll be talking about the “double whammy” that quite a few of us have been feeling knocked … Read More
How to Flip the Bad Mom Script [VIDEO]
Flip the Script on Negative Self Talk [VIDEO] Virtual Mom Meetup with Life Coach Stepha LaFond Because of Covid-19, virtually overnight, it felt as if we underwent one of life’s biggest identity shifts. Unlike most transitions in life, this was one that we didn’t plan, or even ask for. This pandemic has asked mothers to suddenly don so many hats … Read More
Everything You Want to Know About Pregnancy and COVID but Were Afraid to Ask [VIDEO]
Everything You Want to Know About Pregnancy and COVID but Were Afraid to Ask [VIDEO] From the glamorous perch of the blowup bed in my children’s play area — we bring you the next installment of our Moms Anonymous Virtual Chats: a series that allows us to let loose all our questions and feelings, from within the confines of quarantine. … Read More
Juggling Mental Health During Covid-19: Virtual Mom Meetup
Juggling Mental Health During Covid-19: Virtual Mom Meetup On May 2nd, Not Safe For Mom Group (nsfmg) had the pleasure of joining The ChampagneSociety and Motherhood Understood for a chat about mental health and the pressure to be happy during this crazy Corona juggle. We talked about weekly therapy, and how it’s not just for clinical depression; making REAL mom friends, letting go — and … Read More
Sex During A Pandemic: Virtual Mom Meetup (VIDEO)
Sex During A Pandemic: Virtual Mom Meetup (VIDEO) Not Just Another Thing “to Do” We are still flushed from our live conversation today with author, mom, and sex + relationship expert Dana Myers about sex during a pandemic. We shone a spotlight on a topic that (for many of us) is falling pretty low on our list of important things to do … Read More
Virtual Motherhood Circle: Quarantine + The Postpartum Cocoon (VIDEO)
Virtual Motherhood Circle: Quarantine + The Postpartum Cocoon (VIDEO) Today, we came together in a virtual motherhood circle talking about the ways in which this time of quarantine feels similar to the the postpartum period of motherhood. We took live questions from attendees (via chat), providing insight, and a clinical context with which to think about some of these often … Read More
virtual motherhood circle: mothering through a crisis
virtual motherhood circle: mothering through a crisis with Mother Honestly Motherhood looks preeeettttyyy different right now (understatement of all time). So, Mother Honestly thought we should all come together in a virtual circle to talk about how we are feeling: The emotions, the stresses, the wins, the highs, the lows, the struggles . . . and everything in between. Together, with Leah … Read More
What Do You Do With a Birth Story? (Recap + VIDEO)
what do you do with a birth story? (Recap + VIDEO) On a rainy evening on February 10th, Not Safe for Mom Group (nsfmg) gathered at The Wild, Brooklyn to process and unpack feelings that we have around our own birth stories in a safe space, guided by professionals in the birth and motherhood community. Back in January, when I … Read More