Mental Health

8 Tips for Practicing Self-Care During Quarantine

April 12, 2020 By Ashley McKeown Leave a Comment

Self-care during quarantine is a necessity. Mama, your mental health has to be prioritized! Here's a list of healthy coping skills I've learned during the last few years of fighting for my mental health. If you're feeling lonely or depressed, these tips might help you make it through the bad days. Putting on shoes, cleaning for 10 minutes every night, and indulging in crafts is nice, but you can also throw pity parties and give in to the bad days every once in a while. #selfcare #mentalhealth

If you had told me a month ago that I’d be spending my days on Zoom calls and laughing at Tiger King memes, I’m not sure I would have believed you. And yet, here we are…

I’m on day 9,739 of life in quarantine – at least, that’s what it feels like some days.

Actually, today marks my family’s 28th day in self-imposed isolation from the outside world, aside from a handful of errands or my husband’s pre-furloughed work shifts.

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My 2020 Word of the Year

January 2, 2020 By Ashley McKeown Leave a Comment

The end of the year always creates feelings of nostalgia, but the end of a decade feels even more significant, especially when you’re trying to choose your word of the year.

So naturally, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about where I was ten years ago…

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5 Steps to Managing Holiday Stress

December 23, 2019 By Ashley McKeown Leave a Comment

Managing holiday stress is critical, especially for busy moms. Here are some practical tips for how to manage stress and deal with holiday anxiety. Following these 5 steps will help you eliminate or at least reduce holiday stress. You'll learn about triggers: what they are, how to identify them, and how to cope with them in a healthy way. This post also explains decision fatigue and how to reduce it, as well as providing tips for simplifying the holidays and time management.

Stress has, sadly, become a normal part of our daily lives. Our fast-paced world celebrates increased productivity at the risk of our health and mental sanity, and Christmastime is a perfect example of that. I wish we didn’t even have to talk about this, but managing holiday stress needs to become a normal part of our Christmas planning.

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What I Wish I’d Known About Life Postpartum

October 30, 2019 By Ashley McKeown Leave a Comment

I always knew that having kids would be life-changing, but I didn’t realize I would become a completely new person postpartum.

I understood (or thought I understood) that taking care of a new baby would involve learning new things, but to my surprise, caring for my new self was almost more difficult than caring for my baby. Almost.

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