October 23, 2018 This is pregnancy and infant loss awareness month…so glad this issue is getting attention. While I regularly work with individuals and couples who are struggling with pregnancy loss or who have lost children, it is difficult to talk about. It is difficult to write about. I think, and I think most who have gone […]
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Yoga + Fertility
The diagnosis of infertility and the decision to pursue treatment can present significant emotional, financial and physical challenges for individuals and couples that ultimately contribute to increased anxiety and depression. Behavioral interventions such as meditation and yoga, that focus on increasing mindfulness and self-compassion, have been successfully implemented in couples undergoing fertility treatment and have […]
Thoughts on PCOS
September 21, 2018 In honor of PCOS awareness month, let’s open up a conversation… Polycystic ovary syndrome? What is it? The first people to describe PCOS were Stein and Leventhal. They described it in 1935 in an article published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. They described a handful of women with irregular menstrual cycles, […]