Pause to Remember: Providers Sharing Loss Stories

5. Kerry Petsinger, DPT Offers Hope After 7 Losses


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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.

  • Website 

 

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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Pause to Remember: Providers Sharing Loss StoriesBy Amy Pelkey, MSN, CRNA, RYT 200