REBIRTH

About Dr. Rosa

Before my baby was born, I was able to “control” almost every outcome in my life.

I wanted to live in New York City, and I found a way to make it happen. I wanted to become a doctor, and I found a way to make it happen. If I wanted an absurdly expensive pair of shoes, I would find a way to make it happen! I learned that if I worked hard enough and dedicated myself completely, I could achieve it.

So when I became pregnant, my “strategy” for postpartum was similar to everything else that had up to that point, brought my success-  just hustle my way through it when the baby arrives. Plus, as an OBGYN Nurse Practitioner and a certified lactation counselor I felt 100% prepared for life as a new mom.

But during my postpartum period, my “work hard, play hard” motto and mindset failed me. And I could not understand why no matter how hard I tried or how prepared I was, my postpartum expectations were not meeting my reality.

Breastfeeding was difficult, my baby was not sleeping, I didn’t know how to heal my body, and, like for many people- postpartum brought up many of my life traumas that I had pushed deep inside of myself and never faced. All of it threw me into a spiral of not-enoughness and crushing feelings of defeat. 

On top of my personal sadness, I felt anger when I discovered the harsh reality that everything I had been teaching my own patients was wrong, and that the medical system holds no space for postpartum support. 

I looked at my pain. I felt my anger. I allowed my trauma to come up. I awakened a whisper that needed to be turned into a roar. And I used the incredible power of the feminine to destroy everything that was no longer serving me.

 And with that, my life had so much space for newness. 

Here’s what happened: 

• 3 months postpartum, I felt the courage to ask for a raise at work the first day back from maternity leave. Not only did I get the raise, I got a promotion too.
• 10 months postpartum, I launched The Postpartum Doctor LCC, and created a trademarked mentorship
• 15 months postpartum, I married the love of my life in Ravello, Amalfi Coast, my dream wedding come true
• 18 months postpartum I purchased a home and moved into a single-family home in Boston
• 22 months postpartum, I became a doctor. I published research on postpartum healing through a mindfulness perspective
• 28 months postpartum, I became faculty at a university
• 30 months postpartum, I left my clinical job, and my business started earning more than my corporate salary.

Today I am feeling stronger than ever, I have more self- love, self-forgiveness, and self-trust than I have ever had before.

And of everything that I have accomplished in my postpartum, it’s not the degrees I completed, the scientific articles I published, or becoming a doctor that I am most proud of.

I am most proud of the fact that after my son was born, I did my inner work. I healed decades of pain, trauma, anger, and I traded it with self-forgiveness and compassion. Doing that was harder than my Ivy League education.  

But it changed the way I lived, and it changed the way I get to experience my life.

Becoming a mother made me understand that I co-create my life in connection with something greater than me. 

And you too co-create your life in connection with something much greater than you. Each one of you has a soul who wants to experience life through you. And maybe you have already felt that activation in meditation, in nature, or on a walk.

I felt it when I became a mother.

When I looked into my son’s eyes, they reflected the universe to me.

This was my rebirth. 

I want to activate you to have yours too.

Are you with me?