This Isn't What I Expected

Notes on healing postpartum depression.
by Karen Kleiman, MSW, LCSW

Asking for Help: What Gets in the Way and Why?

By Karen Kleiman, MSW, LCSW on August 4, 2011 in This Isn't What I Expected

Women tend to take better care of everyone else than themselves. Most women readily confess that self-care is on the bottom of their "to-do" lists. Mothers, in particular, are inclined to sacrifice their own needs while maintaining intense focus on the needs of their children. Read More

Truth!

Submitted by Kelly Cash on August 4, 2011 - 4:50pm.

Awesome! Great article! Thank you!

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Karen Kleiman, MSW, LCSW

Karen Kleiman is founder and director of The Postpartum Stress Center, a treatment and training center for prenatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. She is the author of several books on postpartum depression.

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