Becoming a parent is one of the most vulnerable and transformative life events. There are so many hopes and fears in the act. Becoming a parent is a new identity that you’re never recused from, you’re never not a parent, and there’s never another experience like that in the relentlessness of it.
So on the one hand you can’t prepare for it, but on the other hand you can be really thoughtful in thinking beyond the birth and think about what kind of care you need post-partum, how you can bring your family in, and most importantly, how you can shore up your partnership and solidify your team together.
– Kara Hoppe
How can parents best weather the storm that a new baby brings? What is co-regulation and how can we bring it into our partnerships? When does interdependence turn into codependence?
Find out in this week’s episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where yo4ur host Zach Beach interviews the psychotherapist and author Kara Hoppe on Surviving Parenthood.
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about Kara Hoppe, MA, MFT
Kara Hoppe, MA, MFT, is a psychotherapist, teacher, feminist, and mother. She has spent more than a decade as an inclusive therapist working with individuals and couples toward healing and growing, and toward becoming grounded, integrated people with better access to their own instincts, wisdom, and creativity.
Hoppe also offers virtual retreats for parents and expectant couples, based on her book Baby Bomb: A Relationship Survival Guide for New Parents. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, Parents Magazine, Fatherly, and YourTango, among other publications.
She lives with her husband and son in Pioneertown, CA, and sees clients in private practice via telehealth.
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Links from the show
- Stan Tatkin – The PACT Institute
- Bowlby’s Attachment Theory
- Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships
- The Power of Attunement
- What to Expect from Sex After Giving Birth
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