Serene Mind for Life

My last post was in 2015, and a lot has happened. In 2018, my partner and I moved from Long Island to Coastal Virginia. Peace and quiet, the water, gardening, and much more awaited me. I stopped being a delivering midwife when I discovered that being such in this area would entail long commutes and much longer shifts (many are 48 hours). I decided to take an office spot with Virginia Women’s Center and have been there for four years now. I opened up my Word Press page so as to publish a little PPT I did back in Southampton, New York when I became an IBCLC. I haven’t touched the PPT since 2018 but I am still happy with it. Hopefully I will someday get the opportunity to use it again in my job, but, and this is big, I am in school again and that is taking my focus for now. I am in the Psychiatric-Mental Health NP certificate program at George Washington University, hence the need to publish my PPT for an assignment I am doing. I am forming (on paper, at least) a Perinatal/Postpartum and Breastfeeding Support Group. I know, seems like a lot but the two are so intertwined that I just couldn’t help myself. So, that’s that. We shall see what comes of my current educational venture. I may stay at VWC and add mental health services to what I do for women (if VWC allows), or I may cross over the bridge to the provision of mental health services as my entire vocation.