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2603 Elm Hill Pike, Suite C

Wise Roots Therapy

Nashville, TN 37214

(615) 200-0625

kara@wiserootstherapy.com

✨What song would you add?

I’d probably add more Paris Paloma 🎶

#playlist #perinatalmentalhealth #valentines #musictherapy

Valentine’s Day can hold a lot once you’ve become a mom- love, gratitude, exhaustion, pressure… sometimes all before 9am.

This is your gentle reminder that you deserve care, too. Not once everything is done. Not once everyone is

If you could go back and tell younger you one thing, what would it be?

Not advice to fix her.
Not pressure to be different.
Just truth. Compassion.
Maybe the reassurance she didn’t get at the time.

Becoming a mom has a way of waking up old pa

Self-compassion isn’t self-pity, self-indulgence, or letting yourself off the hook. It’s a skill- one that helps regulate stress, reduce shame, and support emotional resilience.

At its core, self-compassion asks a simple (but powerful) q

For the moms who love their kids...
and still feel rage sometimes.

Anger is a stress response. For many moms, anger appears when there’s too much demand and not enough support. When you’re exhausted, overstimulated, touched out, or carry

“I should be doing more.”
“I’m behind.”
“I’m too much.”
"I'm not enough."
"It's my fault."
“If I rest, things will fall apart.”
“Everyone else is handling this bett

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