Mika Ross, Therapist & Relationship Coach, Clayton, MO (2025)

Get Your Happy Back isn't about always being happy and flashing your perma-grin everywhere you go. That would be ridiculous ... and weird. It's about inspiring and empowering you to make your happiness a priority and enabling you with thoughts, tools, skills, ideas, and perspectives that might help you get your happy back again and again.

09/15/2025

357 MAMAS have already signed up!!! What in the hay? Also, not surprising.

Moms are hurting; we’re 2x more likely to be diagnosed with depression and anxiety than our male counterparts, we report significantly lower rates of relationship satisfaction than our husbands, we are drowning in to-dos, and we feel like we’re failing everywhere.

Meanwhile, our husband wears 1 baby in a wrap to the grocery store to pick up 5 things and is praised by 7 strangers in amazement.

Also, he wants sex..now. “How about now?”.. “Now??” despite the relationship lacking in emotional intimacy and you feeling like you’re drowning in to-do ocean while he’s up on the boat chillaxin - blissfully unaware of the mile-long invisible list (the dog needs to be groomed, the kids are past due for their well visits, need to research when the baby can eat solids, gotta decipher this email from the reading specialist, plan a 4-year-old birthday party, etc.) that needs to be complete by noon that lives inside your head.

So many of us have the same complaints…feelings of overwhelm, not feeling like a priority, feeling like we’re not enough, wondering if we’re selfish…

You’re asking me questions like, “Is there something wrong with me?”, “How can I get him to SEE the dishes?” and “How can I get what I need without yelling about it?”

You feel alone, disconnected, and like it’s hard to remember who you used to be, but you’re pretty sure you used to laugh more.

You say things to your spouse like, “Why do I have to tell you what to do, WHY CAN’T YOU JUST KNOW?!”

I’ve been there. I’ve crawled out of that. I’ve helped thousands of others do the same. The path to not recognizing yourself one day is a slippery and insidious slope.

Whether you’re already there, or wonder if you might be on your way...well, Mama, I have hand-crafted this workshop just for you.

The best thing you can do for your kids is be well.

Comment or DM us WELL on Instagram and we’ll send registration info, or head to https://www.mikaross.com/wellmama-workshop

Replay will be sent to registrants the next day.

*See* you soon 🤗

09/15/2025

357 MAMAS have already signed up!!! What in the hay? Also, not surprising.

Moms are hurting; we’re 2x more likely to be diagnosed with depression and anxiety than our male counterparts, we report significantly lower rates of relationship satisfaction than our husbands, we are drowning in to-dos, and we feel like we’re failing everywhere.

Meanwhile, our husband wears 1 baby in a wrap to the grocery store to pick up 5 things and is praised by 7 strangers in amazement.

Also, he wants sex..now. “How about now?”.. “Now??” despite the relationship lacking in emotional intimacy and you feeling like you’re drowning in to-do ocean while he’s up on the boat chillaxin - blissfully unaware of the mile-long invisible list (the dog needs to be groomed, the kids are past due for their well visits, need to research when the baby can eat solids, gotta decipher this email from the reading specialist, plan a 4-year-old birthday party, etc.) that needs to be complete by noon that lives inside your head.

So many of us have the same complaints…feelings of overwhelm, not feeling like a priority, feeling like we’re not enough, wondering if we’re selfish…

You’re asking me questions like, “Is there something wrong with me?”, “How can I get him to SEE the dishes?” and “How can I get what I need without yelling about it?”

You feel alone, disconnected, and like it’s hard to remember who you used to be, but you’re pretty sure you used to laugh more.

You say things to your spouse like, “Why do I have to tell you what to do, WHY CAN’T YOU JUST KNOW?!”

I’ve been there. I’ve crawled out of that. I’ve helped thousands of others do the same. The path to not recognizing yourself one day is a slippery and insidious slope.

Whether you’re already there, or wonder if you might be on your way...well, Mama, I have hand-crafted this workshop just for you.

The best thing you can do for your kids is be well.

Comment or DM us WELL and we’ll send registration info. Replay will be sent to registrants the next day.

*See* you soon 🤗

08/27/2025

It’s so simple, but it’s not easy.

09/24/2024

My dad passed away on this day in 2018, but we lost him many years before that to dementia.

In 2016 I wrote about realizing that I couldn’t remember the last time I’d heard him laugh. He had a rosy-cheeked, wheezy, ornery, and contagious laugh.

If he was laughing, it was probably at something wildly inappropriate. Even if you found what he was laughing at to be abhorrent, you were probably gonna laugh too…no matter how hard you tried not to.

Like his D.A.M.M. shirt: Drinkers Against Mad Mothers 🤦‍♀️

Losing someone a little bit at a time is so weird and disorienting.

What I currently miss most about my dad is that feeling of being unconditionally on his radar. Since his passing, I’ve sort of become allergic to being half-in on relationships. I want to be all in, or all out.

I realized at some point in early adulthood, for a lot of reasons, that this feeling of being half in with someone was what I thought was normal in healthy relationships.

“He’s my brother, but he has a different mom,” “He’s my dad, but he lives out of state,” “She’s my mom, but she’s not sane,” somehow created a relational template inside of me that I then inserted, “She’s my FRIEND, but also my enemy…and I have to work REALLY hard for her approval,” and “he’s my boyfriend, but I don’t know if he’s alive or dead, but when I confront him about ghosting me, he’ll gaslight me and I’ll believe him and we’ll stay together,” into.

Relationships were exhausting…

until I realized that being good at relationships also meant being discerning…and not tolerating an atrocious amount of crap. Good relationships feel good MOST of the time, not half the time. Good relationships have a foundation of honesty, repair, and respect…not obligation, submission, and silence. And some relationships are worth the work, and some are not.

Thank g I had already started working on this in therapy before meeting my husband. That feeling of being all in with him is something that’ll bring tears to my eyes immediately.

So, today, on the anniversary of his passing, I hope you create the TIME to have close friends and family on your radar, and I hope you know you DESERVE whole and happy relationships.

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