I’ve written for top digital publications and websites, including The New York Times, the American Psychological Association, WIRED, Parents [PDF], Health [PDF], Verywell Family [PDF], Verywell Mind [PDF], Everyday Health, The Dispatch, Reviewed [PDF], Romper, Scary Mommy [PDF], bpHope, and Motherly.
![Scary Mommy [PDF]](https://emilypgerickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ScaryMommyAuthor.png){kind=link}
Besides freelance service journalism and personal essays, I’ve co-authored public policy documents supporting environmental sustainability and public health, plus scientific research papers published in the peer-reviewed psychology journals the Journal of Traumatic Stress; Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy; and Psychological Services.
Here are clips of my published articles, research papers, and public policy documents:
Service Journalism
Bipolar Research & Insights: Lasting Symptoms, Early Trauma, and Tween Sleep | April 2026 (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Mania Genes, Cannabis, and Pregnancy Sleep | March 2026 (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: DSM Updates, Lingering Symptoms, and Joint Health | February 2026 (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Metformin, Talk Therapy, Brain Waste, and More | January 2026 (bpHope)
10 Ways to Get Better at Coping With Failure (Everyday Health)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Diet, Family Therapy, COVID-19, and More | December 2025 (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Ketamine, Sleep, Smell, and More | October 2025 (bpHope)
What Exactly Is Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorder? (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Inflammation, Hep C, High Blood Sugar, and More | August 2025 (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Dementia, Gut Microbiome, Mitochondria, and More | July 2025 (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Personality, Parenting, Pain, and More | June 2025 (bpHope)
GLP-1s and Bipolar Disorder: What We Know — and What We Don’t (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Trauma Therapy, Lithium Clues, Med Support, and More | May 2025 (bpHope)
What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About Autism (The Charlotte Observer)
What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About Autism (Yahoo!News)
What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About Autism (AOL.com)
What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About Autism (The Dispatch)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Caregivers, PCOS, Metabolism, Mood Tools, and More | April 2025 (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Ketogenic Diet, GLP-1s, AI-Assisted Diagnosis, and More | March 2025 (bpHope)
8 Tips to Beat Procrastination (Everyday Health)
How Air Pollution Affects Bipolar Disorder: 7 Things You Need to Know (MSN)
How Air Pollution Affects Bipolar Disorder: 7 Things You Need to Know (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Genetics, Biological Clocks, Sleep Changes, and More | February 2025 (bpHope)
Bipolar Research & Insights: Ketogenic Diet, Sunlight, Immunity, and More | January 2025 (bpHope)
I Used to Research Mental Health Treatments — Here’s What I Think About Headspace Mental Health Coaching (Everyday Health)
Mood Changes After Giving Birth? Spotting the Signs of Postpartum Bipolar Disorder (bpHope)
Mood Changes After Giving Birth? Spotting the Signs of Postpartum Bipolar Disorder (Everyday Health)
All About Anger: Definition, Health Effects, and How to Better Manage This Common Emotion (Everyday Health)
7 Tips for Raising an Emotionally Healthy Kid (Everyday Health)
8 Signs and Symptoms of Loneliness (Everyday Health)
Making Healthy Habits Life-Proof in Helping Ourselves: Self-Care for Psychologists E-Book (American Psychological Association)
All About the State of Flow: Definition, Health Effects, and How to Get Into the Zone (Everyday Health)
All About Self-Efficacy: Definition, Health Effects, and How to Get Better at It (Everyday Health)
What Makes Someone an Extrovert: Definition, Personality Traits, and Self-Care Tips (Everyday Health)
What Makes Someone an Introvert: Definition, Personality Traits, and Self-Care Tips (Everyday Health)
What To Do When Your Therapist Is Away (Everyday Health)
Is Social Media Safe for Kids, Teens? 11 Things Parents and Other Caregivers Should Know (Everyday Health)
All About Toxic Positivity: Definition, Health Effects, and How to Respond (Everyday Health)
All About Optimism: Definition, Health Effects, and How to Boost Your Outlook (Everyday Health)
7 Ways to Support Your Kid While Waiting for Their First Therapy Appointment (Everyday Health)
The Best Kids’ Winter Boots of 2023 [PDF] (Reviewed | A Division of USA Today)
The Best Breast Pumps of 2023: Babyation The Pump Update [PDF] (Reviewed | A Division of USA Today)
All About Sadness: What Causes It, How to Cope With It, and When to Get Help (Everyday Health)
Feeling Good Institute Online Therapy Review [PDF] (Verywell Mind)
How Not to Be Sad: 9 Tips for Managing the Emotion (Everyday Health)
Talkspace Online Therapy Review [PDF] (Health)
Best Online Therapy for Teenagers and Kids [PDF] (Parents)
Best Online Family Therapy [PDF] (Verywell Family)
Is My Kid’s Therapy Helping? Plus 7 Steps to Take if It’s Not (Everyday Health)
Best Alarm Clocks for All Types of Sleepers [PDF] (Health)
The Best Strollers of 2022: Nuna Mixx Next Update [PDF] (Reviewed | A Division of USA Today)
The Best Strollers of 2022 [PDF] (Reviewed | A Division of USA Today)
The Best Baby Spoons of 2022 [PDF] (Reviewed | A Division of USA Today)
Newborn Sleep 101: Learn the Basics for Your Baby Born After Loss (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
The Cocktail Party In Your Head (Elemental)
Next Steps To Take After Having A Miscarriage (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
The Best Nursing Bras of 2021 [PDF](Reviewed | A Division of USA Today)
The Best Booster Seats for Dining of 2021 [PDF] (Reviewed | A Division of USA Today)
Preparing for a C-Section Birth during Pregnancy After Loss (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
Host Your Own Book Club (Macalester College)
The Best Maternity Leggings of 2021 [PDF] (Reviewed | A Division of USA Today)
Postpartum Anxiety and Depression — What You Need to Know (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
How to Cope with a Traumatic Birth After a Previous Loss and Where to Get Help (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
Here’s a Calendar Trick to Ease Post-Pandemic Reentry (WIRED)
What To Expect When You’re Expecting The Worst (The New York Times)
The Science Behind Your Sigh of Relief (Elemental)
The Worst Mindset To Have When Fighting Racism (Forge)
The Scientific Framework I’m Using to Make It Through This Pandemic School Year (Forge)
Find Emily P.G. Erickson on MuckRack
Find Emily P.G. Erickson on Contently
Personal Essays
A Bear Hunt: Managing Fear in Pregnancy After Loss (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
A Geography of Hope (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
The Yarn that Holds Hope: Knitting Grief and Longing into the Fabric of Life (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
Earthworms & Champagne (Dovetail: Art & Literary Magazine of NYU SPS)
A Potential Space (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
I Was Already Worried About My Autistic Son Starting Kindergarten — Then 2020 Happened (Yahoo! Life)
I Was Already Worried About My Autistic Son Starting Kindergarten — Then 2020 Happened (Yahoo! Money)
I Was Already Worried About My Autistic Son Starting Kindergarten — Then 2020 Happened (Scary Mommy)
How Raising Butterflies Taught Me to Live with the Pain and Possibility of Trying to Conceive After Loss (Pregnancy After Loss Support)
What have you learned about yourself in quarantine? (Motherwell)
What Raising Butterflies Taught Me About Miscarriage (Fearless She Wrote)
From Our Home In Minneapolis, We Can Smell The Smoke And See The Ashes––Here’s What I Told My 4-Year-Old (Yahoo! Life)
When My Son Asked Me, ‘Mama, Aren’t Police Supposed To Help People?’ (Scary Mommy)
The Conversation I Had With My Four-Year-Old When We Evacuated Minneapolis (Scary Mommy)
From Our Home In Minneapolis, We Can Smell The Smoke And See The Ashes––Here’s What I Told My 4-Year-Old (Scary Mommy)
I live in Minneapolis and this is what I told my 4-year-old (Motherly)
Research Papers
Making sense of poor adherence in PTSD treatment from the perspective of veterans and their therapists. (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy)*
A Theory of Planned Behavior Scale for Adherence to Trauma-Focused PTSD Treatments (Journal of Traumatic Stress)*
Veterans With Poor PTSD Treatment Adherence: Exploring Their Loved Ones’ Experience of PTSD and Understanding of PTSD Treatment (Psychological Services)*
Find Emily P.G. Erickson on ResearchGate
Find Emily P.G. Erickson on ORCID
Public Policy Documents
Saint Paul Bicycle Plan (City of Saint Paul)*
Great River Passage Master Plan (City of Saint Paul)*
Saint Paul Street Design Manual (City of Saint Paul)*
Bike Walk Central Corridor Action Plan (City of Saint Paul)*
Saint Paul 2030 Comprehensive Plan Introduction (City of Saint Paul)*
Saint Paul 2030 Comprehensive Plan Land Use (City of Saint Paul)*
Saint Paul 2030 Comprehensive Plan Transportation (City of Saint Paul)*
Saint Paul 2030 Comprehensive Plan Parks and Recreation (City of Saint Paul)*
Saint Paul 2030 Comprehensive Plan Housing (City of Saint Paul)*
Saint Paul 2030 Comprehensive Plan Water Resources Management (City of Saint Paul)*
Saint Paul 2030 Comprehensive Plan Historic Preservation (City of Saint Paul)*
Saint Paul 2030 Comprehensive Plan Implementation (City of Saint Paul)*
Great Places in America Summit Avenue Application (City of Saint Paul)
*Emily P.G. Erickson contributed content and/or editing to a document written by a team