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Grief
What I Learned From a Week Contemplating My Death

Kara Hoppe MA, MFT on April 30, 2024

A Personal Perspective: It may feel scary or difficult to think about our own death, but taking the time to do so can enrich and transform our lives.

A Personal Perspective: It may feel scary or difficult to think about our own death, but taking the time to do so can enrich and transform our lives.

Grief
How I Came to Realize That Grief Is Love

Kara Hoppe MA, MFT on August 18, 2023

Personal Perspective: Learning to live with grief involves recognizing it as a good and beneficial force in our lives, not something to be overcome or avoided.

Personal Perspective: Learning to live with grief involves recognizing it as a good and beneficial force in our lives, not something to be overcome or avoided.

Loneliness
The Mental Load in Early Motherhood

Kara Hoppe MA, MFT on February 9, 2023

Personal Perspective: Postpartum life can bring a heavy mental load as new moms carry out the invisible labor to keep a family moving. Can this load be reframed to make it lighter?

Personal Perspective: Postpartum life can bring a heavy mental load as new moms carry out the invisible labor to keep a family moving. Can this load be reframed to make it lighter?

Gratitude
Create and Cultivate a Gratitude Practice

Kara Hoppe MA, MFT on December 30, 2022

Practicing gratitude is traditionally recognized as good for the soul. Research says it’s also good for our psychological well-being.

Practicing gratitude is traditionally recognized as good for the soul. Research says it’s also good for our psychological well-being.

Relationships
How to Have Deeper Conversations With Loved Ones

Kara Hoppe MA, MFT on November 22, 2022

Many of us live in denial about our own mortality, so we don’t have deep conversations about life with the people we love. How do we change that?

Many of us live in denial about our own mortality, so we don’t have deep conversations about life with the people we love. How do we change that?

Environment
Living Your Values

Kara Hoppe MA, MFT on October 4, 2022

Learn how to clarify and claim your values so you can live them more fully and consistently in your life, within your family, and in the world.

Learn how to clarify and claim your values so you can live them more fully and consistently in your life, within your family, and in the world.

Relationships
How to Break Intergenerational Cycles

Kara Hoppe MA, MFT on August 22, 2022

Your family of origin sets you up with relational patterns. When you become a parent, you have the dynamic opportunity to change inherited patterns that don’t serve you.

Your family of origin sets you up with relational patterns. When you become a parent, you have the dynamic opportunity to change inherited patterns that don’t serve you.

Environment
My Breast, My Choice

Kara Hoppe MA, MFT on July 6, 2022

Personal Perspective: The AAP’s new guidelines came as a shock to some. Parents need to decide if nursing for two years is realistic.

Personal Perspective: The AAP’s new guidelines came as a shock to some. Parents need to decide if nursing for two years is realistic.

Parenting
Keeping the Patriarchy Out of Your Parenting Partnership

Kara Hoppe MA, MFT on May 17, 2022

The mainstream culture may be affecting you as new parents in ways you don’t realize. Learn how to identify and reframe these issues so you can parent more effectively.

The mainstream culture may be affecting you as new parents in ways you don’t realize. Learn how to identify and reframe these issues so you can parent more effectively.