Jacqueline Jebian Garcia
Sensory-Friendly Room (or Corner): How to Create One at Home
A sensory room is a room that is dedicated to sensory experiences. This means that it’s a room constructed to give your child different sensory inputs than they usually get. It is a space...
Sensory Overload: 4 Tips to Help You Manage It as a Mama
What Is Sensory Overload?
When the sensory information that our brain is processing becomes too much for our brain to handle, we move past a state of sensory dysregulation, and into sensory overload. This is...
Sensory Processing Differences in Motherhood
As a pediatric speech-language pathologist for 9 years, a mama of two under 5 years old, and someone who easily experiences sensory overwhelm, I am here to talk about our sensory system and the...
Post-Partum Crisis: Is This a Thing?
You know, like a midlife crisis
The definition of a midlife crisis is a period of transition in life where someone struggles with their identity and self-confidence. It happens anywhere from 40 years old to...
Neurodiversity and Motherhood
What is neurodiversity? And how does it impact your experiences in motherhood?
Let’s discuss some terminology:
Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity is a term that means brain differences are naturally occurring variations in humans. The neurodiversity perspective sees brain differences...
Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: Let’s Break the Stigma
Besides that postpartum depression screening given before discharge at the hospital freshly after giving birth, postpartum mental health education is barely provided to mothers during and after pregnancy. So let’s take the time to...
Weaning My Toddler Cold Turkey & Facing My Fear
My Breastfeeding Journey
My breastfeeding journey with my second child lasted 19 months. And for that, I am grateful. After getting a bad cold, we had regressed significantly as she was asking to nurse almost all...
Grief and Loss: Managing These Feelings Postpartum
"Change means loss; loss means grief; grief requires mourning"- Dr. Alan Wolfelt
Grief is the constellation of internal thoughts and feelings you experience within you about loss. Grief has five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, sadness,...
Language Stimulation Techniques For a Mama Overcoming PPD
As a mama of two, it has been difficult for me to accept that the language stimulation I have given my second child is much different than the language stimulation that I gave to...
Love Where You Live: Why I Love Living in Miami Lakes
I’ve lived in Bay Harbor, North Miami Beach, South Beach, Doral, on 8th Street, Kendall, Miramar, and honestly, Miami Lakes has been my favorite.
I can genuinely say that I love where I live. #iheartmiamilakes...