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Golden Tears Therapy

I support moms struggling with depression, anxiety, identity loss, overwhelm & birth trauma. Feel calm, seen & like yourself again. You might even ask yourself.

Virtual therapy for CA residents & coaching across the US.
🎁Download your FREE Postpartum Plan: www.goldentearstherapy.com Parental mental health challenges are extremely common, yet we don't talk about it enough. No wonder, that YOU may feel lot of shame and guilt. What's wrong with me? Why don't I enjoy parenthood that much? Why don't I bond with my baby? Let me tell you! There's nothing wrong with you and it's not your fault. There's many parents who struggle with postpartum depression and anxiety, 1 in 7, in some cases 1 in 5 parent. I created this page to share educational content to raise awareness on this matter and hopefully help someone who stumbles upon it.

01/29/2026

For some reason, we call this maternity leave.
Most of the time, it isn’t.

It’s a short stretch of weeks, sometimes unpaid,
when your body isn’t healed, sleep is fractured,
and you’re expected to be grateful you got any time at all.

This isn’t about complaining.
It’s about how quickly moms are expected to recover, adapt, and function while the clock is already running.

Everyone else moves on fast.
Moms are expected to keep up.

This page exists for the parts of motherhood
that don’t fit into neat timelines or inspirational captions.

If this kind of honesty resonates,you’re in the right place.

01/26/2026

Motherhood has a way of exposing the things we keep avoiding.
Not to punish us but because there’s no room to hide anymore.

You can keep functioning.
You can keep showing up.
And still feel like something is quietly running the day.

This isn’t about being more self-aware or doing it better.
It’s about noticing what keeps getting postponed because there’s never space.

That’s why I created the supportive mom tote bags, not as motivation, not as pressure, just small reminders for moms who need permission, not advice.
You can find them through the link in my bio.

And if this post felt a little too accurate:
I’m currently accepting new clients.
You don’t have to hold it all by yourself.

01/25/2026

Therapy helps.
So do reminders you can carry.

if you’d like a bag like this or another design, check out the link in my bio.

01/23/2026

Today is Maternal Health Awareness Day.

Not the loud kind.
The quiet kind that lives behind “I’m fine.”

There’s a version of motherhood that looks fine from the outside, kids fed, messages answered, life moving forward.

And then there’s the inside part:
the constant mental load, the pressure to keep it together, the feeling that nothing is wrong but everything is heavy.

Maternal mental health isn’t only about crisis.
It’s about the long stretch of functioning without support.

I work with moms every day.
I’m also raising two kids myself.

What I see over and over is this:
so many mothers are doing “okay” in ways that aren’t sustainable.

This space exists to name that reality.
Without rushing.
Without minimizing.

You don’t need to prove anything here.
You’re already carrying enough.

Share one word that describes your inner load
Follow for honest conversations about maternal mental health.

01/21/2026

This is my very first one.
It’s short. It’s a little clumsy. And it’s real.

I stopped this mom and asked one question:
What’s one thing you wish you had known about motherhood?

No advice. No fixing. No “perfect answers.”
Just one mom saying the truth out loud.

I’m starting to collect these voices because so many moms think they’re alone in things that are actually incredibly common.

I’m going to keep doing this.
More moms. More honesty. More real life.

If this kind of honesty matters to you, follow along.
There’s more coming.

01/18/2026

Motherhood keeps rewarding endurance.

Push through.
Hold it together.
Don’t make it about you.

But children don’t grow up responding to our words.
They respond to the version of us they live with every day.

As a therapist and a mother, I see this constantly:
kids don’t need more sacrifice, they need mothers who aren’t chronically depleted.

This isn’t about being happy.
It’s about being emotionally available.

Save this for the days you’re told to “just keep going.”
Or share it with a mother who’s running on empty.

01/16/2026

Let me tell you a secret.

Good moms have bad days too.

And we’re way harder on ourselves than we’d ever be on another mother.We replay everything. We question ourselves. We wonder if we’re “doing enough.”

I hear this every day in my work as a therapist for moms and I’ve lived it myself.
This isn’t failure. This is motherhood.

This is why I make things like this for moms.

(DM me if you want one 🤍)

01/15/2026

You are a good mom!!

Dm me if you want one too!

01/14/2026

IVF. Pregnancy. Maternity leave.
Three things that should be held with care, not spreadsheets.

If you feel tired before the baby even arrives…
If joy and grief live side by side…
If planning your body, your job, your recovery feels absurd…You’re not dramatic.
You’re responding to a system that asks mothers to function like machines.

I’m a therapist for moms.
And I’ll say it clearly:
This isn’t weakness. This is pressure.

You don’t need more gratitude.
You need honesty, support, and somewhere to be able to breathe.

If this landed in your body, stay here.

01/13/2026

“Sleep when the baby sleeps” might honestly be one of the most annoying things you can say to a new mom.

As if it’s that easy.
As if your body isn’t wired on high alert.
As if your mind just…shuts off.

I’ve been told this too.
I’m a mom of two. I’ve been there.
And as a therapist for moms, I hear versions of this every single day.

This page exists because moms need a place where they don’t have to pretend this stuff is helpful.

If you’re tired of swallowing it all, stay.

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http://www.goldentearstherapy.com/

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