Hey there mama!
If being emotionally regulated while trying to gentle parent feels impossible - you’re not alone.
Your Instagram feed is inundated with parenting and emotional regulation information.
You know you are more chill when you take the time to practice real self-care and get alone time... And you're ready to have better coping skills and want to feel less alone, manage anger and have more patience in parenting.
While you spend most of your "free" time scrolling, you're not much further in figuring out why you feel so stuck, invisible, anxious, numb, and/or not okay when things don't go "right."
That gentle, attachment, and responsive parenting that everyone talks about? It's alright, but it's way more complicated than all those social media influencers make it out to be.
INSTEAD OF FEELING STUCK AND NEVER ENOUGH IN MOTHERHOOD, WHAT IF YOU...
Had the AUDACITY to show up as your authentic self
BELIEVED you deserve and need more kid-less time
COMMANDED it
DEFENDED it
And were EMOTIONALLY regulated in life’s most delightful and most challenging moments?
Let me show you how.
Stop feeling guilt and shame about your not-so-chill moments. We've all been there.
I'm Kayla Huszar, your new creative therapist.
Registered social worker, expressive art facilitator, and perinatal mental health therapist.
I've lost my sh*t on my kids a time or twenty. I’ve lived with a highly sensitive, overactive, wild mind of dysregulation and anxiety/OCD for as long as I can remember. Then in my first pregnancy and postpartum, I was getting out of bed, but I was so not okay, and no one knew. Turns out I was silently struggling with high functioning underdiagnosed perinatal OCD, anxiety and depression (yes all at once). Since my nervous breakdown healing in 2017, I've specialized in supporting mothers to feel more regulated and alive with art as therapy.
I’m not just any therapist, I’m a creative therapist.
Are you wondering how motherhood could be different if you fully embraced it instead of avoiding, ignoring, numbing or distracting yourself?
I get it, being a mom is tough. You're always busy and there's never enough time to take care of yourself. But if you don't take care of yourself, it's hard to find and keep your chill.
I know a lot of moms go on social media to feel better, but let's be honest, you can't learn how to deal with your emotions just by reading about it.
You're ready to create a life you don't have to constantly escape from.
I'm pregnant
Your baby won't come with a manual. It's all on-the-job training with a steep learning curve. You can avoid a new-mom meltdown by practising emotional regulation before the baby arrives.
Ready for some chill?
I'm postpartum
You had a lot of expectations... maybe you didn't expect to not love this. You can be a regulated nap-trapped mom and find the joy in what remains of your maternity leave.
I'm parenting
As a too-busy mom of tiny humans, you are short on time, energy, and capacity. You can learn emotional regulation skills and take time for yourself (without the guilt).
As a parent...
I understand how helpless you feel when you don't feel chill. If only your partner stepped up, your tiny humans slept/ate/listened more, or if your "village" showed up in the ways you needed… You could be more chill.
As a therapist for moms...
You deserve to have all the tools you need to feel chill. Instead of relying on social media for "how to stay calm tips," I can help you actually achieve your goals and have fun doing it.
➤ Understand your wants and needs.
➤ Learn how to manage stressors and get your chill back.
➤ Use art as therapy strategies for daily regulation and REAL self-care.
➤ Eliminate the guilt you feel for wanting more.
I was that girl in high school, the one with a backpack bursting with coloured gel pens
and a blank notebook, a canvas for my doodles, poetry, and lyrics. In the toughest moments, I'd turn to creativity—it was my most innate and natural coping tool. I processed life's highs and lows by journaling. I created collages to make sense of change. I danced my way through breakups and job changes. I crafted poetry from my pain. But somewhere in pregnancy and postpartum, I lost her, I lost me. I started doubting if I could be both creative and a mother.
Here's the thing: I found her again. I discovered that motherhood doesn't have to dim who I am or how I show up; in fact, creativity is the catalyst for finding ease in motherhood. Now, I want to help you do the same.
Don't let guilt dictate what you can and can't do. Join me in rediscovering the woman within. You're capable of more than you imagine.
Ready to explore the therapeutic power of art in your life? Let's see if art as therapy is the missing piece in your journey.
1 Decide online course OR therapy session?
Which is a better fit for your time and budget? You already know what you need.
2 Sign up + Learn the secrets to more chill
For the moms who feel like no one is listening if they don't get mad and yell: this is art as therapy for you.
3 Be a CHILL mom
You're looking for a brave space to process the hard sh*t and learn how to self and co-regulate so that you show up kind and firm in motherhood.