The Anxiety Hack I Recommend to Every Pregnant (and Postpartum) Mom

As a psychologist who spends most of her time talking to new and expectant moms, I can tell you this: pregnancy anxiety is not just in your head. The transformation into motherhood (aka matrescence) is emotional, physical, hormonal, existential… and often, incredibly overwhelming.

Even the happiest of pregnancies or most supported postpartum periods come with racing thoughts: Am I doing this right? Is this normal? What if I can’t handle it? It’s like your brain decides that now is the perfect time to become a full-time alarm system.

Enter one of my favorite, no-cost, deceptively simple mental health tools…