You know WHY this course exists?

Because I’m DONE watching new parents struggle through what should be the most amazing time of their lives.

Yes, postpartum is hard.

But by not preparing for it, we -as a society- are making it 10 100 times harder than it should be.

If you’re thinking: “How hard can it be? Sure, we’ll be sleep deprived, but come on, it’s a baby.”

I get it.

12 years ago, I thought the same thing.

• As an high-achieving, Type-A, control-freak, I was used to figuring things out super fast, excelling at whatever I put my mind to, doing 5 impossible things before breakfast… while adding my own unique flair so that everything was *just* like I wanted it.
• But I didn’t just work hard, I played hard, too. As a spontaneous adventurer, I delighted in being able to grab every opportunity that presented itself at the drop of a hat: Buy a Caracas-Miami ticket this evening to join friends for the weekend? Check. Drive 3 hours on a Wednesday after work, to then hike for another 2 hours up a mountain in the dark, in order to catch the Leonids meteor shower from a remote enough location to witness it in all its glory, camp overnight, and make it back to work by noon the next day? Check.
• And did I mention the lists? The only thing I loved more than lists, was the feeling of having crushed and crossed out Every. Single. Item. on said lists like it was nobody’s business. Of looking back at the week or month, and seeing all the tangible, concrete, award-able things I had done. I would measure how good the year was, based on all I had accomplished.

And then I had a baby.

Did I prepare for having a baby? Not really.

Like most people, I prepared for having a birth.

I read all the books. Took all the classes. Hired the midwife. (We didn’t get a doula because we were stupid and thought we didn’t need the help. I mean, having done so much throughout my life without asking for help, why start?). I had my birth plan (aka the ultimate list!) all set. Stubborn as I am, I was able to check off every item on that list, and thought “TA-DA!”, as usual, all is under control. (Yeah, I know. Feel free to roll your eyes. The truth is that everything was not under control, as I later had to deal with some birth PTSD, and extended baby blues.)

Fast forward to life with baby: that’s when all the wheels fell off.

• I had never even changed a diaper, so I had no idea what to do with a baby that would cry for hours on end and rarely slept. That took down the super-achiever in me.
• I stayed at home with baby for the first 4 months, during which the isolation, the being needed 24/7,  and the inability to get away forced my spontaneous adventurer self to take a seat at the back of the train. Far back.
• The final blow, was a hard hit to my love of lists. They devolved into four lines: feed, change, sleep, repeat. Worse, they were replaced by logs. Sheets and sheets of non-ending entries for every time our daughter ate, slept, and filled a diaper, in our attempts to find some sort of pattern and routine to her days.

Instead of feeling TRANSFORMED and CONFIDENT, I felt lost, frustrated, and resentful. Not a pretty color at all.

But wait! There IS a happy ending!

This experience is what put me on the path to help you and others like you. Along the way, I have processed my postpartum story, healed from it, and found myself in a much better place than I was before I started. And if I had had another kid, with all this knowledge things would have been MAGNIFICENTLY different.

Good news: You don’t have to go through all that!

You can jump right into that magnificent happy ending!

So that’s what this course is for: so you’ll have an amazingly unique resource that will allow you to CONFIDENTLY navigate all the ins and out of life with a newborn, as well as DISCOVER the mighty parent that lies within you, so you can THRIVE with your newborn.

So you can actually PREPARE to become a parent.