When most people think of therapy, they picture talking through stress at work, processing childhood memories, or learning how to stop arguing about who does the dishes. But there is a massive, deeply important part of the human experience that often gets left out of traditional therapy conversations: our sexual selves.

There is an unspoken rule in our culture that when you are expecting a baby or holding a newborn, you are supposed to be glowing, grateful, and completely in love with every single second of it. But behind closed doors, the reality of entering parenthood is often a dizzying mix of profound love and absolute exhaustion, identity loss, and intense emotional shifts.