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Patrescence: The Untold Journey of Fatherhood and Its Impact on Relationships
Patrescence is the identity shift men experience when becoming fathers. Discover how fatherhood changes men and affects relationships.

Markella Kaplani
Aug 203 min read


How Your Inner Child Shapes the Way You Parent | Reparenting for Generational Healing
Why do kids trigger us so much? Discover how your inner child shapes parenting, and learn tools to heal, reparent, and break old cycles.

Markella Kaplani
Aug 193 min read


How Does Parenthood Affect Marriage: Why Relationship Satisfaction Plummets After Baby (and What You Can Do About It)
Why does marriage satisfaction drop after kids? Discover the real reasons couples struggle post-baby and how to rebuild intimacy and connection. Marriage often changes after having a baby, not because love disappears, but because exhaustion, shifting identities, and unspoken expectations create distance. By recognizing these patterns and choosing intentional reconnection, couples can transform conflict into closeness and build a stronger foundation for family life.

Markella Kaplani
Aug 183 min read


Why Motherhood Feels Like an Identity Crisis | Matrescence
The Identity Shift No One Talks About When you become a parent, everyone prepares you for sleepless nights, feeding schedules, and diaper...

Markella Kaplani
Aug 172 min read


Why Communication Tools Backfire in Relationships (and What to Do Instead)
You’ve read the books, maybe even tried a couples workshop. You’ve memorized the scripts: use “I statements,” repeat back what you...

Markella Kaplani
Aug 164 min read


Matrescence: Feel Like You’re Losing Your Identity in Motherhood?
In entering motherhood, grieving for our old selves is not only normal but imperative. This is matrescence.

Markella Kaplani
Apr 11, 20244 min read


Why We Struggle in Motherhood
There is something about our generation of women. We want to be able to do it all. It goes back to years of being subservient to men, to...

Markella Kaplani
Oct 13, 20235 min read


Feeling Censored in Motherhood
Ever feel like only a very particular set of emotions is allowed to you as a mom? This is emotional censorship but we CAN overcome it!

Markella Kaplani
Oct 4, 20235 min read


Not Enjoying Motherhood? Neither was I until...
I was in a session today with one of the beautiful mamas I get the honor to work with. She was bravely sharing how she is finding herself...

Markella Kaplani
Sep 22, 20234 min read


The Identity Shift We Can Expect as We Step into Motherhood (Podcast!)
I was recently invited for an interview with Kallista Andersen on The New Mom Boss Podcast. There, we unpacked the difference between...

Markella Kaplani
Dec 16, 20223 min read


Postpartum Depression Risk Factors
There are some risk factors that we need to be aware of in terms of postpartum depression. Knowing them can increase chances of prevention.

Markella Kaplani
Aug 19, 20223 min read


You CAN Prevent Postpartum Depression and Anxiety (at least partly)!
A key concern I hear expecting mothers express all around is the fear of postpartum depression (PPD) as well as - what is coming to be...

Markella Kaplani
Jul 29, 20226 min read
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