Motherhood is often described as one of life's greatest joys, but it can also be one of its greatest challenges. Whether you're expecting your first child, navigating the newborn stage, raising toddlers, or parenting teenagers, your mental and emotional well-being matters just as much as your family's.

There's a particular kind of silence that fills my therapy room after a woman says, for the first time out loud, "I lost the baby." Not the silence of nothing happening, rather the silence of someone finally setting something down that they've been carrying, alone, for weeks or months, sometimes years.

Somewhere between the hospital discharge papers and the six-week checkup, a new mother is supposed to figure out how to keep a human alive while her own body is still healing, her hormones are in free fall, and everyone around her is asking how the baby is doing: not how she is.