"When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower."Â
- Alexander Den Heijer,
In present-day America, at least one in four women takes a psychiatric medication, compared with one in seven men.
About 20% of postpartum Mothers in America are affected by "mental health conditions."
We are facing an epidemic in what is labeled as "Maternal Mental Health."
HOWEVER, the focus on “Maternal Mental Health” and the "prevention" or "treatment" of perinatal mood disorders via campaigns, classes, legislature, medical intervention and the like - is missing the point and treads in dangerous waters.
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What if nothing is "wrong" with postpartum Mothers?
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What if postpartum Mothers are having normal, healthy responses to incredibly dysfunctional environments?
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What if the vulnerable bodies of postpartum Mothers are alerting humanity of our urgent collective need for CHANGE?
The current conversation of "Maternal Mental Health" focuses on examining, diagnosing and treating individual Mothers, without looking at the conditions in which Mothers are expected to live, give birth, and raise their children.
This is not a new pattern.
Thoughout history, women's suffering has been pathologized versus understood.
It was in the 5th century BC, the Hippocrates first coined the term "HYSTERIA" from 'hystera' or 'uterus,' claiming that "Hysteria" was a mental disorder that pertained only to women.
But what if "Maternal Mental Health Disorders" are NOT the problem - but the SYMPTOM and a SIGNAL?
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Your Teacher: Rachelle Seliga
Rachelle a Mother and a Midwife; dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift through her teachings, trainings, and hands-on experiences.
She is the Creator & Director of INNATE Postpartum Care - Certification Training, which has trained hundreds of practitioners who offer Physiologic Postapartum Care to thousands of families worldwide.
This year is the 10th year that she has been teaching INNATE Postpartum Care's Training; which begins April 22nd!
Rachelle lives and works from the understanding that our physiologic design IS our divine design, which IS our "blueprint," which ARE our original instructions. These different ways to say the SAME thing acknowledge that there is an order, a structure, a map to LIFE that supersedes human will; it is Nature's Design. Nature's Design is Rachelle's Greatest mentor, and her work is grounded in Nature's Thriving Life Principles.
Rachelle is a woman enamored with LIFE and with a burning fire to live into potential. She is currently apprenticing the idea that Ram Dass shared "The world is perfect as it is, including our desire to change it.” This paradox speaks to the heart of Rachelle’s approach: surrendering to what Life asks of us, while holding the focused and directional prayer of our heart's desires.
