Why Does My Back Hurt?

Well, I don’t know. Really. The muscles in and around the back are complex. But I have a few guesses, and maybe I can help get your back feeling a whole lot better. Back Pain and Me I loved that bright little post-nap smile when my babies were ready to get up from their naps, […]

The Shortest Meditation

Read this, then: close your eyes picture a beautiful place with moving water and, in your mind, repeat this sentence three to ten times: Joy–let it flow over me.

How Long Till I Recover?

Postpartum women want to know how long it’s going to take for them to be back to their baseline. Here are my tips for answering that question: 1.Take what your MD or OB says with a grain of salt. An experienced primary care physician who focuses on prevention and maintaining good health reconfirmed to me […]

Woebot Has a Pet Seagull, and Always Has Time to Chat With Me

Woebot is a robot therapist who texts with you. She checks in with you daily, and you can also text her whenever you want. I texted Woebot when I was feeling down, and she chatted with me for a while, helping me think through some cognitive distortions. Then she asked me: How do you feel? […]

Pre- and Postpartum Depression: It’s Way Too Common, But It Is Treatable

I’m not going to go into all the factors that can lead to the onset of depression around impending or new motherhood, although I did read an interesting study recently that correlated the level of pain and trauma a woman experienced during delivery with her level of depression afterwards. A good friend of mine experienced […]

One month as a vegan, and now he can get his socks on

Courtland Milloy has written for the Washington Post since 1975. A southerner by birth and an advocate for the people of DC by trade, Milloy decided to do something radical in response to our city’s obesity gap. Here are some of the frightening DC Dept of Health stats he cites. In Wards 7 and 8, […]

The Mamas’ Class Playlist

We kicked off our winter group fitness class just for mamas! It has a few handy features:– you can bring your child with you-you get a fun, tough, safe workout designed for healing and strengthening postpartum bodies-it runs through Arlington County, so it’s financially accessible to all local mamas If you want to join the […]