We're Not Meant To Do This Alone with Erin Ronder Neves
This is our second episode of Season 2 and today we are talking to Erin Ronder Neves, a birth and postpartum doula, about her experiences with Postpartum Depression and OCD. In this episode, Erin shares candidly about the intrusive thoughts she experienced and the support she sought to help her through this frightening experience.
We wanted to link to this helpful article to help you understand how intrusive thoughts and OCD work and how they are different to postpartum psychosis: https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/difference-between-postpartum-anxiety-ocd-psychosis.html
Unlike postpartum OCD, postpartum psychosis is a medical emergency and visiting your nearest emergency room is the appropriate response.
On the Resilient Birth podcast, Justine and Sarah explore the impact of trauma in the perinatal period. Through an inspirational quote that drives the weekly content, Justine and Sarah explore various trauma areas with vulnerability and compassion that support birthing people and birth professionals.
Each week, listeners leave with takeaways to utilize in their lives and/or clients. Justine and Sarah hold the stories they share with honor and respect with the hope to impart knowledge, increase understanding, and bear witness to this challenging topic.
Sarah is a licensed mental health counselor, educator, and mom of three. She walks with a story of trauma from before and as a result of her perinatal experience.
Justine supports survivors of trauma through perinatal coaching and childbirth education. As well as being a mother of three, she holds a Ph.D. on representations of consent and sexual violence.
Erin Ronder Neves started birth work after the birth of her second daughter, but it was the birth and postpartum experience of her first daughter that initially opened her eyes to all the empowering opportunities that birthing people are not made aware of on their journey. Erin is a certified Birth Doula who has supported over 275 births. She is also a postpartum doula and has worked with just as many families during the postpartum period, as she believes that support should continue once someone gives birth instead of well wishes and one follow-up visit which is usually 6 weeks after birth. Throughout the years, Erin has tacked on a few additional letters after her name to become a Certified Childbirth Educator through BACE, A Certified Lactation Counselor, and a Spinning Babies Parent Educator. And of course, Erin is a proud graduate of Resilient Birth's Trauma Informed Training. Erin started her doula and education business, ERN Doula, back in 2020, and is currently about to launch a brand new brick and mortar location on the North Shore of MA in Beverly, MA, called Beyond Birthing. Doors will open in mid June! Beyond Birthing is the first of its kind, all-inclusive prenatal and postpartum support center. Under one roof families will be able to have access to FULL TIME chiropractic services, lactation consultant, perinatal mental health clinicians, maternal nutritionist, massage therapy, caregiver education groups and so, so many support groups. The mission of Beyond Birthing is focused on the caregivers! Beyond Birthing will allow caregivers to prioritize their own mental health and physical wellbeing, and is dedicated to making it easier to do so. Feel free to check out her website: www.beyondbirthingvillage.com
Learn more about our course called Trauma Informed Fundamentals here: https://resilient-birth.mykajabi.com/traumainformedfundamentals
