Tag Archives | mental health

Simple Ways to Keep Mom Brain in Check

By Marcelle Arellano on February 15, 2020 in Mom, Parenthood

Mom Brain. It’s real. There are even scientific articles proving its existence. It can be hard to stay on top of things when you have kids to get to school, people to keep alive and are trying to do it all on very little sleep. If you’re anything like me, you may be looking for [...]

How to Be a Control Freak (But Not in the Way You Think)

By Jaymi Anderson on June 7, 2019 in Family, Mental Health and Self Care, Mom

Let’s face it, we all want to be in control. Control is how we manage fear and anxiety. Control helps us assess risk. But our need to control can also be detrimental. Back in my biology teacher days, I showed a movie to my classes in which a man made a simple monkey trap. He [...]

Giving Yourself Grace

By Laura Frazier on February 17, 2019 in Mental Health and Self Care, Mom, Parenthood

How often have you thought that what you are doing isn’t right, or isn’t enough, or that maybe someone else is so much better than you? I know I’m not alone, and the saying, “You are your own worst critic” is well known for a reason. I don’t know about you, but I have some […]

Free Yourself from Comparison

By Jaymi Anderson on January 27, 2019 in Mental Health and Self Care, Mom, Parenthood

Scenario 1: It’s one of those perfect Northern Colorado winter days when the weather breaks mid-afternoon and the temperature hits 65 degrees. Never one to waste sunshine, you call a friend and meet her at the park. The kids run off all their pent-up energy, eat dinner with minimum complaint and fall asleep right away. […]

My Go-To Tips for Minimizing the Effects of Seasonal Depression

By Kat Young on January 13, 2019 in Health and Fitness, Mental Health and Self Care, Mom, Parenthood

Honestly, I can’t even tell you how many years I went through this cycle of being OH SO excited for the craziness of the holidays, and then feeling the crash of it all coming to an end every January and wondering why the heck I felt so…BLAH. Anybody with me on this? That thing that many […]

Saying “No” as a Form of Self Care and Dropping People-Pleasing Tendencies

By Laura Frazier on January 6, 2019 in Health and Fitness, Mom, Parenthood

Calling all people pleasers! I see you and I have something to say! Stop. I like to call myself a recovering people pleaser. If you’re a woman, mom, or have ever been in any type of relationship ever, you can probably relate to the feeling of wanting to make or keep everyone happy. People pleasing […]

Silent Night? The Importance of Quiet, and 7 Tips for Creating Quiet this Holiday

By Dawn Miller on December 9, 2018 in Family, Holidays, Mental Health and Self Care, Mom, Parenthood

“Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright…” This is the beginning of my all-time favorite Christmas tune. Growing up in very Swedish Lutheran town, my elementary class even learned this song in Swedish. But as I became a mother, the absurdity of a quiet Christmas night became more apparent. According to the […]

How and Why We Must Continually Fill Our Cups

By Caiti Mondragon on November 4, 2018 in Family, Health and Fitness, Mom, Parenthood

When my kids were younger, I can remember going (escaping) into the bathroom for a few minutes of quiet. Not that I actually needed to do any productive business in the bathroom, I just needed some time to myself. Some uninterrupted, moments of solitu-…wait, are those fingers I see under the bathroom door?! I’d been […]