Anne Kuhlke-Lee, LPC, PMHC

01/27/2026

Research supports our S.E.L.F. model: Rest, (Sleep), movement (Exercise), nourishment (Food), and restorative pleasure (Laughter/leisure) all play a critical role in postpartum brain health and emotional well-being.

💜Better sleep is tied to lower postpartum depression/anxiety

💜Postpartum exercise is linked with fewer depressive and anxiety symptoms.

💜Adherence to a brain-healthy eating pattern is associated with lower odds of postpartum depressive symptoms

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Archana Basu, Aaron Sarvet, Jarvis T Chen, Christy Denckla, Yiwen Zhu, Karestan C Koenen, An examination of sleep as a protective factor for depression and anxiety in the perinatal period: novel causal analyses in a prospective pregnancy cohort

Deprato A, Ruchat SM, Ali MU, Cai C, Forte M, Gierc M, Meyer S, Sjwed TN, Shirazi S, Matenchuk BA, Jones PAT, Sivak A, Davenport MH. Impact of postpartum physical activity on maternal depression and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

01/22/2026

We found a space!

More details coming soon once we can catch our breath and process everything that's happened over the past week.

We've been still serving our families during this unexpected transition and haven't even had a chance to respond to everyone who has reached out!

Truly grateful.
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🚨 Office Space Needed — Quickly & Unexpectedly 🚨

Due to circumstances entirely outside our control (and honestly still a little shocking), Latch Infant Feeding & Lactation Support is unexpectedly losing our office space on February 20.

We are urgently seeking a new space so we can continue supporting families without interruption.

Basic needs:

✔ Private bathroom
✔ Baby-friendly (yes, there will sometimes be crying babies 💛)
✔ Shared space OK

If you know of available office space, a sublease, or a professional suite that might be a good fit — please email admin@latchsav.com

We’re incredibly grateful for this community, especially during moments when stability matters most for families.

And, YES!
Please share this post - the more eyes that see it the more likely we can continue caring for our families without interruption!

01/05/2026

12/31/2025

A Willingness to Keep Showing Up

I step into this new year
gently, without resolutions,
with just a simple willingness,
to keep going,
to keep moving forward.

Not the bright, declarative kind of decision
that arrives with banners and promises,
but the quieter kind,
the one that asks for nothing grand.

No transformation.
Just an honest effort
to place one foot in front of the other,
without needing it to be a victory march.

To keep going isn’t strength.
It’s letting the days arrive as they are,
some heavy,
some hollow,
some unexpectedly kind.

It’s allowing grief, fatigue, memory, and love
to share the same room,
without insisting that any of them leave.

There is no list.
No reinvention.
No deadline for becoming someone new.
There is only the steady choice
to remain present,
to trust that willingness itself
is an act of grace.

So this year begins
not with resolve, but with intention:
the intention to stay present,
the intention to try again tomorrow,
the intention to simply keep showing up.

~ 'A Willingness to Keep Showing Up' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Olya Haydamaka

12/16/2025

10/16/2025

This October, we're honoring every kind of loss. To the moms who’ve walked this road — you’re seen, you’re loved, and your loss matters. 💗

10/13/2025

October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Memorial Health, along with hundreds of families across America, will participate in remembrance services to honor those babies who die each year through pregnancy loss, stillbirth or newborn death. Join us on Sunday, October 19 at 6:30pm at Tom Triplett Park in Pooler for our Walk to Remember.

10/08/2025

"The incompatibility between motherhood and a sense of control is apparent to most new moms, almost immediately. It feels incomprehensible for moms to cling to a desire for control and autonomy while they simultaneously struggle to connect with and take care of their dependent infant.

If motherhood temporarily robs women of a sense of independence, while they readily or reluctantly surrender to this imposed state, it is reasonable that they would try to recoup this independence along the way.

The timing and energy of this effort to reclaim a lost sense of self is different for each woman, depending on variables such as personality, history, current life circumstances, and environmental/social demands, for instance.

The point is that postpartum women, whether depressed or not, are required to reconstruct themselves, to a certain extent, as a function of the demands of motherhood. It necessitates a practical, emotional, psychological and extremely personal transformation.

When depression and anxiety impose extraordinary distress, it can feel impossible to move forward. When depression hits, there is an abrupt disturbance that impedes the transition to motherhood. Mothers who trust the natural flow of life expect this passage to develop naturally, but instead, are be left feeling cheated, enraged and misunderstood."

10/05/2025

👻🎃 Some truths can haunt us, and some can heal us. Both can exist at the same time. When we learn to hold these truths, we can finally break free from cycles that no longer serve us. 💀✨

👉 Read more in Break The Cycle Of Generational Conflict here: https://reachoutrecovery.com/break-the-cycle/

09/24/2025

True Story. 📖

09/16/2025

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We have had over 700 votes for this year's Mom Approved Awards!! Remember, voting ends November 1st so get those votes in so we can celebrate businesses and providers who go above and beyond for families of the low country!

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