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Dr. Kristy Christopher-Holloway

Dr. Kristy Christopher-Holloway is a well respected speaker, counselor, educator, and supervisor.

07/23/2025

Opening up about how you're feeling can be one of the hardest and bravest things you do as a mother.

Sharing what's on your mind helps the people who love you understand what you need. It turns confusion into clarity, distance into closeness, and isolation into true support.

Let's make asking for help feel normal, not shameful.

What would make asking for help easier for you?

07/22/2025

Motherhood asks so much of us. We pour ourselves into caring for tiny humans, often forgetting the human inside us who still has needs, feelings, and limits.

Asking for help means that you're human, you're aware, and you love your baby enough to care for yourself, too.

Your needs matter. Your rest matters. Your healing matters.

It's okay to say you're struggling.
It's okay to want more support than you have.
You don't have to carry it all alone. You're not meant to.

Tag a mama who needs this reminder today.
Save this post for the days you need permission to lean on someone.

07/21/2025

"Enjoy every moment -- they grow so fast."

It's meant to comfort, but often it feels like pressure.

What about the moments when you're exhausted? Overwhelmed? When it's boring, lonely, or just plain hard?

The truth is:
You can love your baby deeply and not love every moment of motherhood.
You can be grateful and admit it's hard.
Not enjoying every second doesn't make you a bad mom. It makes you human

Save this for days you need the reminder

07/18/2025

Being a mom is hard. The sleepless nights, the constant demands, the pressure to do it all perfectly - it's a lot.

Some stress is normal. But there's a line where it becomes too much.

These are signs you might need extra care, and that's okay.

Your experience matters. Your well-being matters. You matter.

If any of this feels true for you, please reach out to a trusted friend/family member and a provider.

You deserve support that sees all of you, not just the role you play. Let's normalize this and make real self-care a priority.

07/17/2025

So many mothers feel like they have to be strong all the time. That they shouldn't complain, shouldn't ask for help, shouldn't admit they're struggling.

But real strength? It's knowing when you can't do it alone. It's having the courage to say: "I need help."

Asking for help isn't failing. It's caring for yourself so you can keep caring for your baby. It's protecting your well-being so you can show up as the mother you want to be.

Getting help is brave. It's love in action for you, your baby, and your family.

If you're feeling overwhelmed, sad, anxious, or just not like yourself, please know: you're not alone. And you're not weak for wanting to feel better.

Talk to someone you trust. Reach out to a professional. Give yourself permission to get the care you need. You deserve to heal.

07/16/2025

Perinatal mental health is so much more than "baby blues". It's about caring for you -- your thoughts, emotions, and well-being -- during one of the biggest transitions of your life.

Pregnancy and the first year postpartum can bring joy, but also overwhelm, worry, sadness, and even deep distress.

💡Did you know 1 in 5 mothers will face a perinatal mental health challenge?

This can include depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, or rage. It's more than normal stress or sleep deprivation. It's real and it's relatable.

You don't have to do this alone. Support exists. Therapy, community, understanding partners and family, medication when needed - these can all help you reclaim yourself and your well-being.

You are not failing if you're struggling. You are a good mother who deserves help. 🧡

If you're reading this and nodding along, please know you're seen, you're heard, and help is here.

What support do you wish all mothers had? Tell us in the comments
📌Save this post to come back when you need a reminder

07/04/2025

This Independence Day, let's remember that true freedom includes the freedom to care for ourselves --mind, body, and soul. For many mothers, healing from perinatal mental health challenges is a brave act of reclaiming that freedom.

If you or someone you love is struggling, know that asking for help is a powerful step toward independence and strength. You deserve support and understanding every day.

06/30/2025

“You’re so strong.”
“You always bounce back.”
“You’ve been through so much — and you’re still standing.”

These are meant to be compliments.
But for many Black and Brown birthing people, they become cages.

When resilience is constantly celebrated, suffering becomes invisible.
It silences emotional pain.
It hides postpartum depression behind high-functioning behavior.
It teaches parents to push through instead of reaching out.

Resilience isn’t healing — it’s adaptation.
A necessary survival skill in systems built to overlook, overburden, and over-police Black and Brown bodies.

🖤 But we don’t heal by staying in survival mode.
We heal by resting.
By grieving.
By telling the truth about how hard it really is.

If you’re a provider, birthworker, or support person — ask yourself:
👉🏽 Are you unintentionally praising endurance while missing distress?
👉🏽 Are you creating space for soft care, slowness, and emotion in your sessions?

We don’t need more strong mothers. We need supported ones.
Let’s stop worshiping resilience and start building systems that make it unnecessary.

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06/27/2025

“Who am I now?”

That question echoes loudly in the minds of many new parents — especially birthing people navigating postpartum without adequate support or space to process their own transformation.

Perinatal mental health care often centers the baby’s needs (and sometimes the physical recovery of the birthing parent), but what about who that parent is becoming?

🌀 Loss of social freedom
🌀 Shifting relationships
🌀 Career pauses or pivots
🌀 Changes in body image and purpose
🌀 Cultural expectations of motherhood and perfection

These layered identity changes can create what we call “identity grief.” And it’s valid. It deserves recognition, not dismissal.

We can’t continue to treat postpartum adjustment as a checklist of milestones. We must treat it as a deep, emotional and psychological transition — one that is especially complex for Black and Brown birthing people navigating both cultural and systemic pressures.

Let’s talk about what identity loss looks like — and how we can support it.

06/25/2025

Partners matter too.
Mental health during the perinatal period isn’t just a maternal issue — it’s a family one.

Fathers and non-birthing partners can also experience emotional shifts, anxiety, depression, and trauma during the transition to parenthood. And their well-being directly impacts the birthing person, the baby, and the entire family system.

Yet too often, their emotional needs are overlooked — by providers, by family, and even by themselves.

👉🏾 Did you know that up to 1 in 10 fathers experience postpartum depression?
👉🏽 And non-birthing partners in LGBTQ+ families may carry their own unique mental health burdens shaped by invisibility, exclusion, or systemic stress?

Support isn’t just for one parent.
We need to widen the lens.
When partners are supported, families thrive.

📌 Save this infographic.

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06/23/2025

Words matter — especially in perinatal care.
The language we use as providers, support people, and systems doesn’t just describe an experience — it shapes it.

Too often, when a birthing person shows distress, they’re met with labels:
“She’s non-compliant.”
“She’s too emotional.”
“She’s being difficult.”

But what if we shifted the question?

From: “What’s wrong with her?”
To: “What happened to her?”

Because behaviors are communication.
Silence can be a trauma response.
Resistance may be a form of protection.
And tears aren’t weakness — they’re often unspoken history.

Using client-centered, trauma-informed language builds safety, trust, and dignity. It’s not just about being polite. It’s about healing.

06/20/2025

“The Myth of the Strong Black Mother”
It sounds like a compliment. But it’s not.
It’s a stereotype rooted in systemic racism—one that denies Black women access to the care, compassion, and vulnerability they deserve.
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In maternal mental health spaces, this myth becomes especially dangerous.
It tells providers:
“She’ll be fine.”
“She doesn’t need help.”
“She’s just strong.”
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And when she’s struggling—emotionally shut down, silently anxious, grieving, or in physical pain—she’s often overlooked.
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🖤 Strength is not immunity from trauma.
🖤 Being a Black mother doesn’t mean she has to be unbreakable.
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Black women are allowed to cry. To rage. To feel. To ask for help.
Care that centers liberation must also center tenderness.

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About Dr. Christopher-Holloway and New Vision Consulting and Training, LLC

Welcome! We are so glad that you are here! Dr. Kristy Christopher-Holloway is an Assistant Professor at Lindsey Wilson College, the Founder and Director of New Vision Counseling Center, LLC, a group private practice in Douglasville, GA, and the Founder of New Vision Consulting and Training, LLC. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia, a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a Distance Credentialed Counselor (DCC), and an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS).

As an educator and trainer, speaker, and consultant, Dr. Christopher-Holloway works with many helping professionals including counselors, counselors-in-training, social workers, as well as medical professionals. She has presented at conferences, workshops, and trainings locally, nationally, and internationally with focuses on cultural competence, African Americans and mental health, the psycho-emotional impact of infertility in African American women, addressing religion and spirituality in the counseling session, the strong Black woman syndrome and generational trauma, operating a successful private practice, incorporating wellness in clinical practice, and more.

Clinically, Dr. Christopher-Holloway’s research focuses on the mental health help-seeking experiences of religious or spiritual African American women diagnosed with infertility, as well as the psycho-emotional impact of infertility in African American women and couples. She works with minority women experiencing infertility trauma, birth trauma, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (postpartum depression, anxiety, etc), and pregnancy and infant loss (also commonly referred to as perinatal loss or reproductive loss). She has worked in settings to include private practice, in home, outpatient, and residential treatment, working with children, adolescents, and adults, providing individual, couple, family, and group counseling.