Mindful Postpartum

A personalized journey where we explore the transition to parenthood, the foundations of the parent-child relationship, and your evolving parental identity.   

Let’s work together to find your true parenting voice, alongside practical tips and tools to support you in seeing how you can apply this knowledge and insight in your family.

Postpartum is often when the reality sets in. Not the reality you had in your head of sweet babies sleeping in a perfectly tidy, sunlit room while you lovingly stare down at them basking in the warmth and stillness of parenthood. But the real reality.

One that is full of:

  • A level of exhaustion you didn’t know was humanly possible

  • Constant opinions and criticisms about how you’re acting and parenting

  • Changes in yourself or your partner that you don’t know how to name or talk about

  • Worrying if your baby is “ok” and whether or not you’re giving them what they need

  • A sense of losing yourself in this new role and the endless needs of your baby

  • An overwhelming and all-consuming love and focus that shifts how you see and relate to the world

  • A social structure that is dismissive of the time your body needs to heal and prohibitive of you being available to meet your baby’s needs in the ways you would like during their earliest years

  • A demanding physical recovery and continuing biological changes


These things are real. And they’re really hard. But here’s the thing I want you to know.  If you reframe postpartum as a transitional period, and break it down into a series of smaller stages and realistic expectations, it can feel more manageable.  

With this in mind, my work as a Postpartum Coach will vary depending on your stage of postpartum, and the unique needs and goals of your family. I view the postpartum journey as a 2-year process, and break it down into 6 distinct stages. This allows us to honor the realities of where you and your family are in your evolution and to integrate this framework with how you are personally experiencing parenthood at this moment in time. In addition to allowing for more realistic goal-setting, rethinking postpartum as short-term, temporary stages can in and of itself allow for more levity, presence, and confidence in the process.

What You Can Expect

While this will depend on where you are in the postpartum journey, and your family’s unique needs, values and goals, our work together follows a core process.

 
 
 


We begin with exploring the impact your baby’s arrival has had on the way you feel, think, and behave and identify any gaps in these areas that are not aligned with the parenting experience you want to have.  We will look immediately at behavioral changes, support options and foundational wellness practices that can support you in your transitions.


Once you are clear on your intentions and feeling more grounded, you’ll be ready to dig deeper into the influences that are subconsciously coloring your parenting experience and shed those that do not serve you or your baby.


Finally putting together all of the pieces, the path to being the parent you want to be will come into full focus and you will move forward from a place of confidence in your relationship with your child, your relationship with your partner, and your relationship with yourself.

With Postpartum Coaching you will:

Learn how to support your physical recovery and changing body and mind

Discover tools to support regulating your emotions

Hold space to self-express and process through the big changes and feelings of postpartum

Find your authentic parenting voice and begin integrating it

Learn about your baby’s development and practical tips for nurturing their needs

Develop a plan to support your family during transitions back to work and identify the childcare options that feel authentic to your family’s goals and needs

Build skills to support improved communication and collaboration with your partner

Explore the childhood and socio-cultural influences that inform how you parent

And More

Ready to See If Working
Together is a Fit?

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Coaching does not assess, diagnose or treat any mental health condition. Coaching services do not initiate any type of therapeutic relationship with Allison. Coaching is not therapy, and does not replace therapy.