Trauma

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Coping With Burnout in Motherhood: How to Complete the Stress Response Cycle

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Coping With Burnout in Motherhood: How to Complete the Stress Response Cycle

The last two years have been filled with stressful situation after stressful situation for moms. Between frequent class quarantines, trying to work from home, and limited support from family and friends, many moms feel like they are emotionally and mentally hanging on by a thread. The stresses of the pandemic combined with the normal exhaustions of motherhood are enough to make any person feel like they are breaking. At times, it has been like a never-ending tsunami of overwhelm and anxiety.

While we would love to be able to wave a magic wand and make the stressors disappear, unfortunately that isn’t real life. Instead, learning to cope with the stress by completing the stress response cycle can help reduce the experience of burnout.

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This Isn’t What You Expected: Pregnant and Giving Birth During Hurricane Ida

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This Isn’t What You Expected: Pregnant and Giving Birth During Hurricane Ida

For any woman who has found herself pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic, expectations have had to be adjusted based on the requirements and guidelines of the doctors’ offices and delivery settings. And while these adjustments have required pregnant women in New Orleans to shift their expectations, there has been a fair amount of time to process and accept those changes and disappointments.

But one thing that no expectant mom was prepared to deal with is the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. For women who are still pregnant and for those who are newly postpartum, life is currently filled with so many unknowns, so much worry, anxiety, and sadness. Where you are in your pregnancy or postpartum experience may impact the intensity of those emotions and the types of questions you find your anxious mind mulling over.

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What is Postpartum Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?

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What is Postpartum Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?

Pregnancy is a time of expectation and dreaming. The anticipation of your baby’s arrival is typically filled with excitement about the moment when you will finally get to hold your little one in your arms. When your pregnancy or birth don’t go as expected, you may find yourself struggling emotionally and mentally. While the birth of a baby is a natural thing that the female body was designed to do, it is an experience that is ripe with opportunity for things to not go as planned. When things don’t go as expected, it can be traumatic.

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