Rachel H. Tribble, MSW, PMH-C

23/04/2025

To the Florida State University Community:

As an FSU alum, my heart is especially heavy in the wake of the recent tragedy on campus.

This university is a family. And right now, many in our FSU family are hurting.

In response, The University and local community have provided and outlined a number of resources.

In order to care for the community that I have called home for 25 years, I would like to offer low or no-cost therapy sessions to FSU students, faculty, and staff who have been affected by this tragedy, are in need of support. I am an army of one, so this will be available on a first come, first serve basis, as space and scheduling allows.

I’m here ...in Tallahassee.
I provide both in-person sessions at my office in Tallahassee, as well as telehealth services for those located in the state of Florida.

You don’t have to go through this alone. I strive to provide a safe, compassionate space to begin healing.

Please reach out via email at rachel@rtribblecounseling.com for more information.

Rachel H. Tribble, MSW, PMH-C
Registered Clinical Social Worker Intern ISW15631
FSU Alumnus

02/01/2025

When one has experienced a difficult childhood or overcome numerous obstacles and adversity, it can make it difficult to fully accept joy and positive things that come their way.

That is one way the brain lies to us: we are so used to surviving, we are hesitant to thrive. It tells us that the rug will likely be pulled out from under us at any moment, so allowing ourselves to feel hope, joy or excitement is bound to lead to disappointment.

As we enter 2025, I hope you learn to allow yourself to experience happiness. To look inside, and work towards healing the wounds and negative thought loops that make you feel like you are deserve a life that is anything less than extraordinary.

15/10/2024

October 15th is recognized as Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day.
This evening, people are encouraged to light a candle at 7pm in their time zone, in order to create a Wave of Light across the globe. This is in honor of those babies that we never had the chance to meet, who couldn't stay, who were born sleeping, or left us too soon.

There is nothing taboo about this kind of loss, except that we don't talk about it.

Based on the prevalence of these kinds of losses, it's likely that you or someone you know has experienced the loss of a Pregnancy or Infant within the first year.

If you call your baby something (like a nickname), or they have a name, say it! Acknowledge their impact. Words are powerful.

I am walking this journey with you. If I were able to light a candle for each of the babies I have come to know, personally, professionally, and through the power of social media, I might have create a hazardous condition...but what an honor it is to hold the stories of their lives.

I will have my own candle lit today, plus another one to honor all of the babies. 🕯🕯

11/10/2024

Join me virtually next week as I partner with Capital Area Healthy Start for their Lunch & Learn series, where I'll discuss best practices for supporting parents and families navigating grief after losing a baby during or after pregnancy. Register at the attached link. Date: October 18, 2024, Time: Noon, Location: wherever you are.

https://capitalareahealthystart.org/lunch-and-learn/

Join us next week at 12:00 PM, for a valuable Lunch & Learn session via Zoom! Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn and grow together! Link in bio to register!

09/09/2024

🍁September is Su***de Awareness and Prevention Month 🍁

🍁September 9-13, 2024 is Maternal Su***de Awareness Week.🍁

Fact: Maternal su***de is a leading cause of maternal mortality and accounts for an estimated 20% of maternal MI during the perinatal period.

Fact: Women diagnosed with postpartum depression have an elevated risk for su***de up to 18 years

You don't have to suffer.
❤️ Tell your support system
❤️Talk to your doctor.
❤️Check out psidirectory.com for a mental health provider who has specialized training in Perinatal Mental Health.


***deAwareness ***deAwareness


- Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health. (2023, September). Maternal Su***de in the U.S.: Opportunities for Improved Data Collection and Health Care System Change [Issue Brief]. https://www.policycentermmh.org/issue-briefs-and-papers

28/05/2024

It's not just Perinatal Depression (aka postpartum depression).
It is not only postpartum.
PMADS don't always have the same presentation as their non Perinatal counterpart diagnoses.

27/05/2024

13/03/2024

Mom life is hard.
When you have a social support system.
When you don't....it can feel impossible.

Mamas are the toughest people I know, and,despite that, are hardest on themselves.

It is my greatest honor to hold space for every single one I come in contact with.
That hour...is all about you. You deserve it.
❤️❤️❤️


https://www.facebook.com/share/p/RCJMAQa1QCWNo3fx/?mibextid=oFDknk

We were never meant to live like this. Want to know why you’re so tired? It’s not just because your baby wakes all night. It’s not just because you’re nursing 24/7. It’s not because of your baby’s biological needs. It’s because we were never meant to live like this. In so much isolation. So alone. We were meant for a village. We were meant to lay in bed for weeks/months feeding and sleeping with our new baby while our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, cousins, neighbors, and friends helped out.

But there is no mother bringing us food and water. No grandma cooking the meals. No sisters playing with the other children. No cousins folding the laundry. No neighbors taking care of the house, and no friends providing support. Modern life is in constant conflict with childrearing and our biological needs. From returning to work at 6 weeks postpartum to little to no support in the postpartum period. The truth is many of us are just lucky enough to have someone drop a meal off but not lucky enough to have them actually come inside. And it’s not their fault. They don’t have a village either. There’s never been a mother to bring them food and water. Never a grandma to cook their meals. Never sisters playing with their other children. Never cousins folding the laundry. Never neighbors taking care of the house and never friends providing support.

Our babies are biologically designed to wake often and eat often. We are biologically designed for a village. Be easy on yourself and your baby. We were never meant to live like this.

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23/01/2024

There can be no maternal health without mental health.

1 in 5 birthing people report signs and symptoms of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders.

This only includes those who feel comfortable disclosing to their provider.
It only includes providers who screen, and are able to recognize the symptoms.

Not all providers are trained in the subtle nuances of Perinatal Mental Health. (It is not regularly taught as part of a traditional Mental Health or Medical Track in Graduate Programs)

Need help?

Postpartum Support International has a database of providers of all kinds who are trained in Perinatal Mental Health, both for moms and professionals. They also offer free virtual support groups that are specific to a number of different experiences.
👉Postpartum.net

The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is available 24/7.
👉 Call or text (833) TLC-MAMA.

The maternal access crisis in the United States is nothing short of catastrophic. We can all play a role in helping to reverse course and improve outcomes. Help raise awareness about how access to is at risk in your state or community and how the lives, health, and safety of patients depend on stakeholders coming together to develop sound policy solutions and implement programs and initiatives to restore and protect access to care.

02/01/2024

Happy New Year!

12/12/2023

𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵? 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘆? (Death in the Perinatal Period, which includes pregnancy and the 12 months following a pregnancy)

This segment was aired on CBS Sunday Morning, regarding Perinatal Depression, Maternal Su***de, as well as a promising new pharmacological treatment. It is a good (and short) watch.

Joy Burkhard, the Executive Director of the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health, made a statement to address some of the important things that were left out, for sake of brevity, and I wanted to add some of her thoughts here. (I also made this a bit shorter for those reading)

"🤱𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐏𝐏𝐃): 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐱𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲, 𝐎𝐂𝐃, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝.

🤰𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝 and is the leading cause of pre-term birth, which can impact children over their lifetimes...and untreated can spill over into the postpartum period

📊𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 ‘𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝟏 𝐢𝐧 𝟓 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫.’
CBS chose to use the count of 1 in 7 from the CDC’s survey of women after birth called the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)...
𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 (𝟏 𝐢𝐧 𝟓) and we know some women still don’t speak up for a variety of reasons (stigma, cultural nuances, fear of the baby/children being taken away).

🧪𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐇𝐐-𝟗 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐏𝐃:
We don’t use questionnaires to diagnose other 🧠brain disorders like Alzheimer’s and concussions; we use brain scans. As the CBS segment illustrated, 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐛𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧. However, more research is still needed to support the use of scans for diagnosis. We are advocating for such precision diagnostics through the new women’s health research initiative established this year through the White House. These more precise diagnostic tools legitimize mental health disorders, provide doctors with much-needed medical diagnostic tools, and *bonus* combat stigma.

💰𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐲 $𝟏𝟔,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐙𝐮𝐫𝐳𝐮𝐯𝐚𝐞. 💰

That is the wholesale cost, but that’s not what patients pay. And yes, $16,000 is a lot, but not really...The FDA approved 51 “novel drugs” this year that are the first of their kind. Like any new technology, they are expensive to develop due to high research and development (R&D) budgets.

💸𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞/𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞.💸

🆘️ 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐒𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬’ 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬.


🩺⚕️𝐈𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞?
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 (𝐎𝐛/𝐆𝐲𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬).🩺 ⚕️

As the providers responsible for a mother’s health during pregnancy (and now for all women through 12 months postpartum), it’s critical obstetric providers (Obs) test for these disorders starting before pregnancy or early in pregnancy and throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period. (This is recommended by ACOG, with guidelines for screening updated this year)

💪𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐬/𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. 💪

Though we have named obstetric providers (Obs) as the providers that should be screening and developing treatment plans, not all Obs will routinely screen. P𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐮 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐎𝐛𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. (I will link this in the comments)

✨️𝐍𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐲/𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞. 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 (𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲) 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. ✨️

It’s time to aggressively address the “Child Protective Services” policies that their symptoms. The mother who shared her story so clearly articulated that she worried her baby would be taken away from her if she spoke up. “Mandatory Reporting” for child protective services is a topic we will address head-on at the annual Maternal Mental Health FORUM this March.

Finally, in the segment, I mention, “𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥 [𝐙𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐮𝐯𝐚𝐞], 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭.” The interview was cut for brevity, so what I went on to say was not included:

“𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐱 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩, 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬 (𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞) 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧, 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲.""

If you are pregnant or have been pregnant within the past year, and are struggling, the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is available through text or phone 24/7 at (833)TLC-MAMA. Those working on this hotline have specific training in Perinatal Mental Health.

The Su***de Prevention Hotline is also available by phone or text at 988.

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One in seven women experiences postpartum depression (PPD), with more new mothers dying from su***de or overdose than anything else. Experts discuss efforts to destigmatize PPD and encourage treatment, including with a new drug, Zurzuvae, the first-ever pill for PPD.

02/11/2023

It's November! That means...the holidays are coming. Notice I did NOT end that sentence with an !!

Because, the while holidays can be really special, and a lot of fun...they can also be an intense source of stress or pain.

If grief comes in waves, sometimes, holidays or anniversaries can feel like a tsunami.

Grief is not always about a person. It can include other losses as weĺl: a job, a dream, a perception.
I am including this clip, as I feel like Dr Fowler's words hit the nail on the head. They always did.

Many of those in the local mental health community are grieving the recent loss of a phenomenal clinician, who dedicated his practice to griefand trauma.

However, even in his absence, his words and lessons continue, and this is a GREAT clip on managing the holidays when you have experienced a loss.


https://fb.watch/o3D0RU8m6V/?mibextid=Nif5oz