Part 1
Tomorrow, Sunday October 27 from 11am-12:30pm in Newton, I’ll be participating in The Climb, an event raising awareness and money for perinatal mental health through the amazing work of Postpartum Support International.
This is a cause so personal to me, as I experienced postpartum anxiety and depression after the birth of both my children. Even as someone who had worked in the perinatal field for years before becoming a Mother, it still was hard for me to notice all the signs in myself, and harder still for me to accept the help I needed once I did.
Every week in my office I meet parents, mostly Moms, who are struggling with the radical shifts in their identity, sleep patterns, marriage dynamics, bodies, and every single thing about their lives as they are adjusting to life with a newborn.
Becoming a Mom is SO hard. And with the wild expectations that we set for ourselves influenced by the world around us, social media, our friends and family, and our own desires to be the very best parents we can be, it becomes even harder. Layer on the stress of the wider world: war, gun violence, loss of bodily autonomy, rising cost of everything, etc, and it gets even more intense (please don’t forget to vote!)
This is why I’m so excited to be a part of this event, and to be inspiring others to donate to this amazing cause. Feeling inspired yet?
I set the very ambitious goal of raising $1800 for Team Boston.
As of the time of this writing, I’ve raised $785.
Will you please help me reach my goal by tomorrow, Sunday Oct 27th????
If you are able to, and believe in this cause as I do, I would be so grateful for your contribution.
With so much gratitude,
Dr. Lizzie
P.S. If I do reach my goal of $1800 by 11:59pm on Sunday I am going to do my first ever cold plunge, and film it for you all to enjoy.
Part 2
Thank you SO much to each and every one of you who contributed to my recent fundraiser for Postpartum Support International.
It was so moving and exciting to get notification after notification that someone else had ‘answered the call’ and generously donated to this amazing cause. And answered the call, you did!
Thanks to so many of you, I reached my ambitious goal of $1800!
Collectively, Team Boston raised just over $12,000 (!) which is the highest amount that any Climb Team raised nationwide! And my fundraising team specifically was the 6th highest individual team nationwide! I am so grateful to all of you (and my Instagram followers who put up with my persistent days-long-campaign that rivaled some NPR pledge drives).
I am so proud to have been a part of this event and to be surrounded by such a beautiful community of you all amazing, compassionate, generous people.
The emotional and uplifting event, and witnessing so many of you give to this important cause, filled me with hope and optimism, two amazingly precious feelings these days.
Mothers truly can save the world. Now let’s go vote.
With so much gratitude,
Dr. Lizzie
P.S. I did reach my goal! Which means, as promised, I will be doing my first ever cold plunge on camera for you all! Stay tuned, will be putting it on my calendar very soon.
