Preparing for Parenthood

Boundaries

Navigating New Parenthood: 5 Tips for Creating Boundaries

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on June 17, 2025

New parents can benefit from these strategies for setting and maintaining healthy boundaries.

New parents can benefit from these strategies for setting and maintaining healthy boundaries.

Pregnancy

Creating a Supportive Pregnancy-Postpartum Care Team

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on May 4, 2025

From bump to baby: How to develop a maternity care team to improve your health and well-being throughout pregnancy and postpartum.

From bump to baby: How to develop a maternity care team to improve your health and well-being throughout pregnancy and postpartum.

Relationships

How to Improve Your Physical and Emotional Connections

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on April 11, 2025

Have you ever felt lonely in your relationship? Explore the importance of physical and psychological presence.

Have you ever felt lonely in your relationship? Explore the importance of physical and psychological presence.

Relationships

How to Invest in Your Relationship's Emotional Bank Account

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on February 27, 2025

Be a smart relationship investor. Put intentional efforts into the relational interactions that contribute to your emotional bank account with your partner.

Be a smart relationship investor. Put intentional efforts into the relational interactions that contribute to your emotional bank account with your partner.

Relationships

The Essential Question to Ask Your Spouse

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on February 3, 2025

A.R.E. you there for me? Accessibility, responsiveness, and emotional engagement are the building blocks of a secure attachment bond with your partner.

A.R.E. you there for me? Accessibility, responsiveness, and emotional engagement are the building blocks of a secure attachment bond with your partner.

Therapy

Couples Therapy for Mental and Physical Health Conditions

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on January 17, 2025

Couples therapy interventions can have positive impacts on a number of mental health and chronic health conditions.

Couples therapy interventions can have positive impacts on a number of mental health and chronic health conditions.

Pregnancy

Perinatal Mental Health in 2024: A Year in Review

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on December 27, 2024

Here's a look back at this year's most important developments related to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum health that you need to know.

Here's a look back at this year's most important developments related to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum health that you need to know.

Relationships

Preventing "Flooding" and Its Relational Impacts

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on December 20, 2024

Learn strategies to prevent flooding from sweeping you away in relational conflict.

Learn strategies to prevent flooding from sweeping you away in relational conflict.

Attachment

Building Parent-Child Attachment: 3 Fundamental Concepts

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on December 17, 2024

How do parental sensitivity, context, and development impact attachment? Awareness of these important concepts helps create an understanding of security in parent-child attachment.

How do parental sensitivity, context, and development impact attachment? Awareness of these important concepts helps create an understanding of security in parent-child attachment.

Parenting

Parental Stress Is a Critical Public Health Issue

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on August 30, 2024

The U.S. Surgeon General advises there is an urgent responsibility to address parents’ mental health and well-being. "Something has to change."

The U.S. Surgeon General advises there is an urgent responsibility to address parents’ mental health and well-being. "Something has to change."

Cognition

Language Can Be a Powerful Tool in Our Healing

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on August 28, 2024

Having access to a word can help us recognize our experience of that word.

Having access to a word can help us recognize our experience of that word.

Menopause

The Relation Between Perinatal Depression and Perimenopause

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on July 29, 2024

What women with a history of pregnancy-related mental health complications should know before entering perimenopause.

What women with a history of pregnancy-related mental health complications should know before entering perimenopause.

Oxytocin

Do Hormones Impact How We Care for Our Babies?

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on July 4, 2024

The important role oxytocin, or the "love hormone," plays in promoting differences in parenting behaviors between mothers and fathers.

The important role oxytocin, or the "love hormone," plays in promoting differences in parenting behaviors between mothers and fathers.

Postpartum Depression

Can Fathers Suffer From Postpartum Depression?

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on June 9, 2024

Symptoms, risk factors, and gender-based treatment strategies for paternal postpartum depression.

Symptoms, risk factors, and gender-based treatment strategies for paternal postpartum depression.

Pregnancy

The Decision to Have a Baby or Two

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on May 15, 2024

Are you struggling to decide whether to have a baby? Create thoughtful and intentional decision-making and discussion.

Are you struggling to decide whether to have a baby? Create thoughtful and intentional decision-making and discussion.

Postpartum Depression

Postpartum Rage

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on April 21, 2024

What new parents need to know about this common and often-overlooked symptom of postpartum mental health.

What new parents need to know about this common and often-overlooked symptom of postpartum mental health.

Pregnancy

What to Do When You Can’t Sleep When the Baby Sleeps

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on April 5, 2024

Exploring mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Exploring mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Pregnancy

Invisible Loss: Developing a Name for Pregnancy Loss Parents

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on March 12, 2024

Why is there no term for pregnancy loss parents? Find out what a recent panel of experts developed.

Why is there no term for pregnancy loss parents? Find out what a recent panel of experts developed.

Adverse Childhood Experiences

The Importance of Positive Adult-Child Relationships

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on March 6, 2024

What research tells us about caring adult-child relationships and the prevention of mental health disorders, even with early exposure to childhood trauma.

What research tells us about caring adult-child relationships and the prevention of mental health disorders, even with early exposure to childhood trauma.

Postpartum Depression

Supporting Your Postpartum Partner

Rachel Diamond Ph.D. on February 19, 2024

What to expect when you’re expecting together. Approaches to supporting the overall well-being of your postpartum partner.

What to expect when you’re expecting together. Approaches to supporting the overall well-being of your postpartum partner.