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Newsletter: Health Care is Self-Care

We have been through a lot collectively this past year and a half. Many things we counted upon as “normal” have been shattered and each one of us has had to invent – or try to invent – a new sense of normalcy. That process has been difficult, abnormal, and seemingly endless. These past few months we have seen a lot of mental health related concerns here at Cherry Blossom as everyone tries to shift their reinvented “normal” to something else yet again…

Woman Owned Businesses

Savor It Studios—Michelle Cohen does it all. She’s a prenatal and postnatal yoga teacher AND she’s a birth and postpartum doula here in Washington, DC. Michelle started Savor It Studios after the birth of her son.

Here is her story: “Three months after the birth of my first son, I was in a restaurant alone, trying to nurse and soothe him. I still felt like I was getting my grounding as a mom, and in that moment I was proud of having made it out of the house alone. I was ruminating on my new sense of self, reflecting on how insanely hard this experience was, and strongly desiring a reconnection to my former creative self when a group of older women walked by and said, ‘Savor it. It passes so quickly.'”

Learn more about Michelle and Savor It Studios here!