I'm Michelle and this is me with my two kiddos :)

My husband and I met in 2017, got engaged in 2018 and got married in 2019. Life was going along smoothly...until we had a miscarriage in early 2020. We were devastated and drifted apart as we both coped with the loss in our own ways.

When we decided that we were ready to start trying to conceive again, we struggled month after month to get pregnant and I started to lose hope. But then our son was born in November 2021 and I thought we had found our happily ever after. Even though we were now parents...things got tough quickly.

We found ourselves completely stressed out and overwhelmed figuring out how to keep this little human alive and our differences really started to show. Though we had always said we would have two kids, we were now questioning if we wanted to do this again. We loved our son, but our love for each other was on shaky ground.

Eventually, we got back to a good enough place that we decided to try again and this time we got pregnant right away with our daughter - she was born in April 2024. Life is full and certainly far from perfect, but we're working at it to find ourselves again as partners while living life as a family of four. 

And if you're curious to know a little bit more about my professional background, I earned my master's degree and became a therapist in 2015. I've done extensive work on learning and teaching dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). I also did two years of training in a somatic technique called focusing and I've also been trained in emotionally focused individual therapy (EFIT). I pull from all of these different areas when working with my clients and if you're curious to learn more, shoot me an email and ask me anything you like :)