Healing After Birth: 3 Ways to Support Women

Childbirth is often described as joyful and life-changing. While that is true for many, for some women the experience can feel frightening, overwhelming, or traumatic. When distress after birth does not fade and instead shows up as flashbacks, anxiety, emotional numbness, or hypervigilance, it may be a sign of postpartum post-traumatic stress.

Post-traumatic stress after birth can develop following emergency interventions, unexpected medical complications, feeling unheard during delivery, NICU experiences, or fear for one’s own life or the baby’s life. These reactions are not a sign of weakness — they are signs that the nervous sys...

Simple, Practical Ways to Manage Daily Stress

By Peaceful Horizons Counseling, LLC

Daily stress is something most of us carry quietly. Deadlines, family responsibilities, financial pressure, relationship dynamics, constant notifications — it adds up. While some stress is normal, ongoing stress without relief can leave you feeling exhausted, irritable, and disconnected.

At Peaceful Horizons Counseling, LLC, we believe stress management doesn’t require a complete life overhaul. Often, small, consistent shifts make the biggest difference.

Here are practical strategies you can start using today.

1. Regulate Your Nervous System First

When stress spikes, your body shifts into “fight, f...