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Continue reading →: Systems Sunday: Menu Planning and Grocery ShoppingThe key to parenting with chronic depression is quite simple: build systems that function even when you feel like you can’t. This same advice works well for folks with ADHD, too. Once you have created systems that function whether you are “present” within them or not, it’s much easier to…
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Continue reading →: A Mommy blog — in this day and age?Well, sure. Why not? Writing is good for mental health, and my goal with this space is to explore my own journey with chronic depression and motherhood while hopefully offering ideas, coping strategies, and parenting tips to other parents struggling to balance their small children and their mental health. In…
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Continue reading →: What does it mean to be a mother?This is surely a loaded question, and it is one I have struggled with along with my transition into motherhood. Raising a baby and childrearing is so far from easy! There is baby’s sleep to think about: should we sleep train? What about baby-led weaning? When did authoritative parenting become…
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Head Above Water: Parenting With Chronic Depression 