The WHY behind Watershed DNA, and the New Non-Facebook Online Support Group Option.
Nine years ago this week, I survived the most life-altering experience of my life.
After the birth of my second child, I nearly died from complications that went undetected by the medical team for so long that I was sent for emergency surgery and transferred by ambulance to the ICU at a different hospital. On my child’s second day of life, I was separated from her, my husband, my loved ones, and all of the medical staff I knew. In my coherent moments, it was the most alone I have ever felt.
It was a scary time for everyone - and it certainly traumatized everyone, myself included.
For years after, I jumped from therapist to therapist trying to find the one who could help me recover from it, having developed a type of PTSD called birth trauma. I learned so much in those years - about myself, about human healing and communication around difficult topics like fear and loss and death, and different approaches to healing trauma - that it set me on an entirely different course in my personal and professional life. I also learned about courage.
Without this experience and other life traumas - car accidents, my eldest being diagnosed with special needs, my grandmother’s death - I would not be the person I am today. There would be no Watershed DNA.