Dr. Kerry Petsinger, DPT talks about living through seven pregnancy losses while working full-time as a physical therapist. You can hear her share:
- Scheduling physical therapy patients so she could get to her own doctor appointments
- Therapy
- Feeling like she wanted to run away from pain and her marriage
- Felt like having a baby consumed her life
- Stopping to ask, "What can our life look like?"
- The only thing she could change was her mindset
- Feeling restless and wondering if she picked the right career
- Abandoning the thought of specializing in women's health after investing in additional training
- Becoming pregnant after having twins through surrogacy and the complications that followed
- How stress changes the odd of carrying a baby
- Trying to figure out how she "could have it all" while balancing a career and family
- Mornings that Matter - 10 minute routine
- Importance of gratitude - it can co-exist with grief
- Train your brain to find the good around you
- Therapy vs coaching
- How you develop habits to get you where you want to me
- Grieving can be trial and error
- Give yourself permission to go through the hope and grief cycle
- An approach to handle babyshowers
- Figure out what works for you even though it is hard to make time to care for yourself
How to find or work with Kerry.
Virtual Support Group for Healthcare Providers after pregnancy and infant loss
- 2nd Monday of every month
- 7:45-8:45pm EST
- Led by Amy Pelkey, CRNA and Whitney Jablonski, CRNA
- Via Zoom - get the link and updates here
- This is for female, licensed healthcare providers grieving after pregnancy or infant loss
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