If you’ve never played racquetball, you can’t expect to be a champion after your first match. The same holds true for being pregnant. You can’t expect to be immediately good at it. Even if you’ve been pregnant before, you’ve never experienced this pregnancy before. Aspects will be different and you may feel differently. You are…
What I want for the clients of Loving the Pregnant You first and foremost is for each of you to love the pregnant you, to like who you are and how you’re approaching your unique pregnancy journey. You won’t enjoy all moments or everything about being pregnant, certainly. Yet, with a conscious intention to discover…
In many cultures around the world, the pregnant mother is revered and her pregnant condition is celebrated. The kinds of celebration and ritual are as varied as the cultures in which they reside. They range from reserving the best foods for the pregnant mom and having extended family assist with housework to decorating an expectant…
Billions of women have given birth to billions of babies. That could lead one to think that pregnancy is a fully understood and predictable journey to experience. I don’t think that’s the case. Pregnancy is commonplace, yes. Yet, it is also highly personal and unique for each woman and for each pregnancy. You, as a…
I encourage pregnant women to tune into their thoughts and feelings and use these as a guide to determine what choices and approaches best resonate with them. It’s a success formula for finding your way to best enjoy your pregnancy. This is, of course, an approach that you can use at any time during your life….
To enjoy your pregnancy you’ve got to trust yourself. You make your choices as best you can at any given moment with the data you have. And, note that there are different kinds of data. One kind of “data” is the information you can get from books, magazines, and websites; it’s what you know is possible from what you’ve…
This week I wrote a guest blog for the Pregnancy & Motherhood blog hosted by Deborah Meggitt. (She’s cool. Check out her site here.) The blog entry is entitled Discover Your Trailblazer and you can read it here. In the blog I state that it’s useful to have role models - to connect with people who…
When she got pregnant, Ellen felt the burden of what was going to be needed physically during her pregnancy. She’d gain a bunch of weight, potentially get stretch marks, be tired, and risk interventions and potential surgery during the delivery process – just to name some of the biggies. She clearly knew she physically wouldn’t…
Every woman has a different thoughts and rationale about when she’ll share the news that she’s pregnant. Many don’t want to start telling others until after the likelihood of miscarriage is down to a really low probability because they think it’s a jinx or they worry about the possibility of having to tell all the people in…
It can be easy to look to others for affirmation and obsessively wonder if others think you’ve made the “right” choices. If you could set aside their opinions (or what you think are their opinions), how would you want to think and feel about your pregnancy? How would you choose to BE during your pregnancy?…
“One of the things that makes Amy Riley such an exceptional coach is her superb ability to listen. The kind of listening that leaves you feeling as if you have truly been heard. When someone listens to you that well, suddenly your mind is filled with solutions that were not possible before the hearing happened. Amy was also able to create an atmosphere where I felt so safe and non-judged that I was able to process. She never left me feeling as if I were alone, but rather as if she were right there with me. If you are looking for the BEST in coaching, look no further, you have found her!!”
– Debi K., Mom, Children’s Book Author, Life Coach
“What I most appreciate about Amy as a coach is the way her coaching process flows so naturally. She listens intently, asks important questions, and dives into her big bag of tools and concepts WITH me, transparently offering herself and her life experience in service of my learning. It feels very easy and natural and I ALWAYS walk away with thought (or action) provoking insight from our coaching conversations.”
– Anne R., Mommy to Be