Ditch the idea of “perfect” motherhood, and mom differently.
Changing the narrative around modern motherhood. Therapy for Millennial and Gen Z moms and birthing people in Ohio who are tired of feeing burnt out, angry, overstimulated, disconnected and resentful of the mental load and are ready to find joy by embracing their “good enough” selves.
Are you suffocating under the invisible mental load of motherhood? Struggling to reclaim your identity postpartum? Are you in the throes of information overload trying to raise your tiny humans in a different way? Struggling to balance the paradoxical joys and losses that tend to be a hallmark of modern motherhood? Looking for support through your fertility or loss journey? Pregnant and trying to proactively plan for the most radical transition of your life? Tired of feeling shame and guilt and just want things to feel easy for once?
Hi, I’m Ashley! I specialize in supporting moms and birthing people from pregnancy to parenting to perimenopause, so no matter where you are on your journey to or through motherhood, if you’re finding yourself looking around and wondering “what the f*ck have I gotten myself into,” I can help.
I’d love to join your village so you can feel a little less alone and a lot more empowered to find yourself again- first as a person, then as a mother and partner and all the other roles you hold!
Areas of Specialization
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Navigating the Mental Load of Motherhood
Before kids it all seemed fine but now you are suffocating under the mounting pressure of the mental to-do lists, the planning, the organizing and you’ve become resentful that your partner is not recognizing just how many cards you are holding?
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Raising Tiny Humans
Struggling to find your parenting values in a sea of “expert” opinions and automatic neural responses? Is your idea of self care getting to eat a French fry from the bottom of the takeout bag and have it still be warm-ish? Shocked by how many times you’ve Googled “mom rage”?
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Navigating Your Fertility Era
Is the whole world getting pregnant around you and every month you’re squinting to see if maybe, just maybe there is actually a faint line on that test? Are you about to scream if one more person looks at you and says “well at least you can get pregnant!” as if that’s supposed to actually make you feel better?
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Pregnany & Postpartum
Instead of the rumored “pregnancy glow” you ended up with acne for the first time in over a decade, parts of your body you didn’t even know existed hurt and you haven’t kept a meal down in weeks? Did your friends help you craft a perfect baby registry, but forgot to tell you about the sometimes graphic intrusive thoughts that flood your brain?
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Pregnancy Loss & Termination
You’re just coming up for air after hearing the doctor say there is no heartbeat? Maybe you were just told there is something wrong with the baby and you’re about to be faced with impossible choices and you aren’t sure what the right decision is for your family? Need a safe, nonjudgmental place to process your abortion?
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Birth Trauma and NICU Parents
Your birth preferences went out the window and you’re grieving the loss of how you thought it would be and navigating what feels like a traumatic birth experience? You’re struggling to process just how many wires are attached to your baby and nobody prepared you to have to advocate for your newborn while you’re still healing?
“If we keep passing down the legacy of martyrdom to our daughters, with whom does it end? Which woman ever gets to live? And when does the death sentence begin? At the wedding altar? In the delivery room? Whose delivery room—our children’s or our own? When we call martyrdom love we teach our children that when love begins, life ends. This is why Jung suggested: There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.”
— Glennon Doyle, Untamed