December 30, 2019

One Simple Way to Build Your Legacy in 2020.

Want a surefire way to be great in 2020? To raise children who know how to live? Choose kindness, over and over.  And that will become your legacy.

November 18, 2019

Dr. Harvey Karp: 7 Steps to Take Care of Yourself…While Taking Care of Your Baby

If you’re feeling like you walked into the deep end of the pool, you’re not alone. For the first time in human history, parents are expected to take care of babies on their own. Up until about 100 years ago, most parents had 5 nannies…their moms, sisters, cousins, and neighbors....

November 18, 2019

Want a Simple Bone Broth Recipe for a New Mama?

New mothers need warm foods to restore their life force, referred to as “qi” in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Warm foods help balance a woman’s energy, as she’s lost blood, passed a hormone-rich placenta and is slowly closing in all the places that opened to hold and birth a baby. 

November 18, 2019

Dr. Robin Fawcett: What if One of the Most Powerful Things You Could Do as a Parent Was Also One of the Simplest?

Parenting in a new culture is a great excuse to think critically about best practices. One of the surprises for me was the European focus on getting children outside in nature. As I began reading about Scandinavian outdoor preschools and German forest kindergartens, I found startling connections between environment and...

November 18, 2019

Allison Oswald, DPT on Things You Should Know About Your Pelvic Floor - Before, During & After Pregnancy

When women think of the pelvic floor, they most often think kegels. But it’s time for women to know there is so much more to the pelvic floor than just that.

November 17, 2019

The Birth Preferences Grid

By Erin Erenberg  You’ve probably heard of the birth plan. Setting intentions and visualizing what we want is a great way to set ourselves up for the results we want, in just about every experience we value. But the idea of a birth plan is a charged topic. For one...

November 17, 2019

Instagram Rehab: We dropped our phones and discovered our village

What was the last Instagram post that left you feeling bad?  Do you remember the photo?  The caption?  How long did it take before you realized that your bad mood was tied back to something nagging from your scroll? 

November 16, 2019

How to Be a Mindful Mama and a Badass Go-Getter

What happens when two mamas with PhDs and a love for sport psychology meet over green juice in NYC?  A conversation about ambitions and struggles, of course. But also a recognition that we can balance the gigantic mom role with the other parts of ourselves that make us whole. One...

November 15, 2019

7 Things My Kids Have Taught Me About Happiness

Dr. Zelana Montminy is a positive psychologist and health and wellness contributor to a variety of broadcast, digital and print media. She frequently speaks at conferences and various academic, business, and non-profit institutions, and is a member of the American Psychological Association and is a consultant for the Institute for...

November 15, 2019

The Power of Intuition and Believing in Yourself

I never really understood what it meant to “listen to your intuition”. But one day, just over a year ago, I witnessed a voice in the back of my mind and a feeling in my gut. This was my intuition and following it literally saved my life.