Dr Stephanie Diamond

05/01/2025

As a psychologist specializing in reproductive mental health, I support women through the emotional challenges of fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.
Whether you’re navigating fertility challenges, depression/anxiety, grief, adjustment or identity changes that come with new motherhood- you are not alone—and you don’t have to do this without support.

Let’s rewrite the narrative of your journey to and through motherhood, with honesty and compassion.

Specialties:
•. Infertility & IVF challenges
•     Postpartum adjustment
•     Postpartum Depression (PPD)
•     Postpartum Anxiety (PPA)
•     Pregnancy loss, birth trauma
   

DM to connect or book a consult.

02/21/2025

Do you know about common cognitive distortions? If you think about your thinking, you will notice that you probably tend towards some of these distortions over others. The key is to become aware of your tendency to distort, so that you can self-correct by introducing a more balanced thought to consider.

02/19/2025

Lighting the way for the self-seekers. It’s time to rediscover yourself and thrive. ✨

05/04/2022

What happens when we fearful or threatened?

This week I got a call from my doctor that a routine test came back abnormal and I needed more testing. Rationally, today, I can tell you that while it sucks to get this news, I feel confident that I will be ok big picture. In the moment though, I had no access to rational thought. I was in stress response mode- I was frozen.

[In the face of fear or threat, we are not operating from our higher cognitive faculties (translation: there is no room for rational thought). We are responding in a more primal way- our autonomic nervous system takes over and a cascade of physiological events occurs automatically to prepare us to deal with the threat- either by fighting it, fleeing from it, or freezing (shutting down). This is a stress response.]

So I was frozen, and I couldn't continue on with normal activities- it was dinner and bath time at my house and I was not able to rally. I had to allow myself to feel the fear and terror and let the feeling move through and out of me- in this case, through quite a lot of crying that I couldn't control- I couldn't turn the tap off!

At first I tried to stop the flow, but I realized that was futile pretty quickly and I allowed for the feeling to move through me. And it did. It took a while, but then the tears slowed and then stopped. I felt lighter for having let myself cry like that (can't remember the last time! and as my BFF always says "sometimes you just need a good cry").

Once the feeling moved through and out, I could calm and ground myself. And from that place, I could access my higher faculties, think it through, evaluate what I was really afraid of, and look at the situation from new perspectives.

My body needed to discharge the fear, and it's intense energy. And once it did, I could breathe, think, connect again.

Do you allow your fear to move through you? If not, you may find yourself in fight, flee or freeze mode quite a lot.

04/26/2022

DARE TO DREAM.
- do it.

Here’s a pic from the weekend of me and the girls, taken at a place that holds special .

I swear I wanted to pinch myself this weekend because the life I am living now is a direct result of my daring to dream. Had I not let myself have dreams of more I don’t know if I ever would have created the life I am now living.

There is a sliding door, parallel universe version of me that doesn’t have this life, this family, this love, this joy.
And in the universe in this photo, she has all of it.
Because she allowed herself to dream of it.

It can be scary to let yourself dream. Because when you acknowledge to yourself that you want something, you can’t really “unacknowledge” it. You know?

But trust me, it’s worth the risk. Every damn time.
What would my life look like if I didn’t take the chance, cut my losses, and seek out more? What would my life look like if I didn’t have the guts to do that??

I don’t really know. And I don’t really want to know. But I DO know it wouldn’t look or feel ANYTHING like THIS.

Thank gawwwd I put on my lion suit and faced fear and risked.

I’m so grateful to younger me- scared, unsure, sad, hopeful, longing for more, tired, stuck, strong, and brave AF.

The risk was rewarded in spades. 💗💗💗💗

04/22/2022

Remember the chant “I scream for ice cream?” Well this is my variation on it.
DREAMING is an incredible way to manifest what you want.
If you don’t dream it up, can it even happen??
It all starts with a dream.

Are you letting yourself dream?
Are you really letting your imagination run free when you dream?
Do your dreams light you up?

Dream big, beautiful woman!
And fall in love with your dream.
Everything you want begins with giving yourself full, unlimited permission to dream.

What are you dreaming about?

04/20/2022

Are you dreaming BIG enough?

What do you want? What do you REALLY want?

You know how they say a goldfish will only grow as big as the tank you put it in? Well, the same kinda goes for you, with dreaming. Your potential- which is unlimited- can only be reached if you are brave enough to allow yourself to dream without limits.

Chances are you are limiting your dreams based on what you think is possible given your current situation and resources. I was doing that too. Until I started to feel disenchanted with my goals, and realized that I wanted, and was meant for more.

So, if you’re limiting your dreams like I was, please stop doing that.
Please stretch your dreams up, expand them, make them juicier, take the chance to allow yourself to dream as big as possible.

After all, the universe is unlimited. And you are too.

04/06/2022

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03/21/2022

SPRING+CHANGE go together like PB+J.