Mental Health
Explore a variety of resources to help you care for your mental health when navigating a complex family building journey.
Mindfulness during Family Building Group
This 60-minute mindfulness exploration is for anyone navigating a family building journey who would like to learn skills and strategies that will be supportive for the stressors they may encounter. Practices may include guided meditation, affirmations, visualizations, or gentle movement. Participants are encouraged to have a journal or something similar for writing.
As of January 2025, this group will move to the 1st Monday of each month from 7-8p EST.
Kerri’s Journey: The gap between what’s offered and what we need
This episode features Kerri Bicskei, an active duty military spouse, psychotherapist, and founder of the nonprofit organization Mindful Warrior Alliance. Kerri shares her ongoing family building journey, taking both holistic and Western medical approaches...
Beyond the Checklist: Reclaiming Real Self-Care
By Jessica Katz, Reproductive Mental Health Therapist Self-care is everywhere—marketed as the fix for feeling stressed and overwhelmed. But by the time we reach for it, we’re often already running on empty. What’s offered—tea, self-help books, manicures—can...
Matt’s Journey: “I’m doing everything I possibly can to make sure her name never gets lost”
In this episode of the AllPaths Podcast, Matt Smith, founder of Wandering Soul Beer Company, shares his personal experience with stillbirth and how this profound loss directly inspired the creation of his brewery and its flagship beer, Melody Maker. Matt and...
Rebecca’s Journey: “This is right for me and right for my family.”
In this episode of the AllPaths podcast, we’re joined by Rebecca Daddio, LCSW PMH-C and AllPaths peer group leader, to hear about her personal and professional journey through the complexities of family building. Rebecca shares her experiences with...
LaMone’s Journey: I became what I needed.
LaMone Downey Leonard, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Founder and CEO of Rising Hope Counseling and Wellness joins us to discuss her family building journey. Her mission is to create safe and supportive healing spaces for those experiencing...
The Arc of Sex and Intimacy During Family Building
By Elliott Kronenfeld, Ph.D., LICSW, CST In this exciting age where families look different and are being built by all types of people, the ways to parenthood are many. The issues of intimacy, connection, and sexual citizenship are challenged when fertility concerns are raised, especially if it requires changing expected stories of who and how conception, gestation, and biology are managed.
Taking Care of Your Mental Health During Your Family Building Journey
Having to struggle to start or build your family can take a toll on your mental health. Join Elena Clamen, a licensed mental health counselor who specializes in fertility and family building for a conversation about mental health during a challenging...
Mindfulness During Family Building
Whatever path you're currently on, if you find yourself feeling stressed and worried about your mental health, this conversation with AllPaths Family Building and volunteer Carissa Spada, Mindfulness Coach, RYT, LMT is for you. Join us for a discussion about...
Conquering The Two Week Wait
Learn about tools and resources that are available to help anyone trying to conceive on their own or with fertility treatment navigate the dreaded 2WW. Clinical herbalist Liane Moccia and clinical social worker Alicia Abdella bring their professional...
“We’re Not on the Same Page!”
Guest post by Lotte Smith-Hansen, PhD If you’re building a family with a partner, what happens if you disagree about the next steps in your journey? Believe it or not, this happens more often than you might think. A complicated family building journey...
Mental Health Matters
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2022 Volume 3 By: Katie Aguayo Zweifel, LICSW, PMH-C Many people facing challenges in growing their family also experience mental health difficulties as a result. Numerous studies have shown that people who are struggling with...
How Creativity Can Instill Hope and Healing
Guest Post by Elena Clamen, LMHC There can be so much uncertainty, disappointment and waiting while on an infertility journey. Some of the feelings may include: frustration, grief, loss, anger, sadness, shame, and isolation. Anyone who has experienced...