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Tips for Adjusting to Stay-at-Home Motherhood

4/6/11 1:18pm by Shannon Hyland-...
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Here you are, a new stay-at-home mom! Has the job knocked you on your rear end yet? No, no, I’m joking! (Uh, sort of.) Stay-at-home motherhood is a rewarding, fulfilling -- even fun! -- job. But initial adjustment to stay-at-home motherhood can be really hard. It’s not often discussed at playgroups or Mommy-and-Me classes, but most moms struggle to find their footing upon first becoming stay-at-home parents.  Read more >

Steps for a Smaller, Saner Holiday Season

12/10/10 7:00am by Shannon Hyland-...
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It’s that time of year, though, right? When we run around in a fever of to-do lists and cookie exchanges and shopping trips, winding ourselves ever more tightly and feeling ever more Scrooge-like as our blood pressure stages a revolt? It’s hard to enjoy the holidays when you’re stressed about the cookies you forgot to donate for the first-grade Winter Sing and you just realized you’ve got nothing to wear to that “cocktail-chic” holiday party your neighbors are throwing tomorrow night.But wait -- it doesn’t have to be this way.  Read more >

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Full Name
Shannon Hyland-Tassava
Member Since
January 2008
About Me: 

I'm a writer, clinical health psychologist, private wellness coach, and at-home mom. I specialize in women's health and well-being, especially self-care for moms.

My writing has appeared in a number of print and online publications, including the 2009 Seal Press anthology P.S. What I Didn't Say: Unsent Letters to Our Female Friends and the 2011 anthology TORN: True Stories of Kids, Career & the Conflict of Modern Motherhood (Coffeetown Press).

I'm a health and wellness columnist for my local newspaper, a freelance writer, and the author of the parenting blog Mama in Wonderland. My nonfiction self-help book on modern stay-at-home motherhood and self-care, The Essential Stay-at-Home Mom Manual: How to Have a Wondrous Life Amidst Kids and Chaos, was released by Booktrope Editions in e-book form for the exclusive Barnes & Noble NookFirst program in December 2011, and will be published in physical book form, available everywhere books are sold, in late January 2012.

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Writer, psychologist, wellness coach
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Northfield, MN (near Minneapolis-St. Paul)
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