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What comes before postpartum: Understanding prepartum anxiety
In our focus on “post” partum, we might be forgetting the “pre” Abigail Murray, Psy.D Consider the following thoughts: “I bumped into that door. What if I meant to bump the door? Did I mean to bump the door? I could have hurt my belly. What if I was trying to hurt my belly?” No,…
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New Year, ?!?!? Me
This year, I think it’s the New Year’s Resolutions themselves that need the overhaul, not you and me. Abigail Murray, PsyD Hear me out. It is tempting, compelling even, to use the end of the year as a frame for reinventing ourselves. When the clock struck 12, Cinderella was still Cinderella. As Jon Kabat-Zinn, the…
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Regression: It may not be just the kids….
By: Abigail Murray, PsyD It’s a well-documented and widely recognized phenomenon that when humans undergo tremendous stress, they may revert to early life defenses. This is believed to be a largely unconscious process, one which can be intuited through the behavior rather than indicated by communication. In children, regression takes form in increased clinginess, difficulty…
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Have we gone a rye? Enough with the bread, already!
By: Abigail Murray, PsyD We are now all in a collective trauma and many of the ways we previously made daily meaning (through friends, family, work) have been challenged by this new, attenuated normal. When the pandemic first hit, a slew of articles landed touting the ways one should make meaningful use of this unexpected…
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