You've Got This, Mama.
And I'm Here to Help.
I see you. You want to be a great parent and partner. You’re committed to your career. You’re a Jedi at juggling everything: work, home, your social obligations. You name it, you can fit it in, make it happen, or mop it up.
The only thing missing? YOU. Your sanity. Your sense of purpose. Your needs prioritized.
Most of the solutions to improve work-life integration start with external factors we can't fully control. That's why I empower working moms FIRST with internal strategies by teaching them a new framework that prioritizes meeting their own needs and leading fulfilling lives as primary goals—and that keeps all their to-dos from defining them.
I Believe Our Working Mom Lives Were Meant to Be WAAAAAY Better Than They Are
My mission is to help working moms break the cycle of burnout in parenting and shift their focus to their own health and well-being so they can create work-life integration in a way that fosters greater joy and purpose in every area of their lives.
When I had my first baby, motherhood hit me hard.
Hey, I'm Dr. Whitney!
I’m a private practice pediatrician, a two-time American Academy of Pediatrics Author & Spokesperson, and a mom to two young girls in Portland, Oregon.
In the beginning, I got lost in my daughters' needs and let mine fall to the wayside. When I went back to work postpartum, life got even more complicated as I layered on more responsibilities and added more to-dos.
I had to dive deep to redefine what it means to be a successful mom. By flipping the switch and investing in my own social and emotional health, I stopped just surviving motherhood and started thriving in it.
My kids are my best teachers, but I also went to school for forever. After completing my undergraduate degree in journalism, I completed my medical school training at the University of Vermont and my pediatrics residency training at Stanford University. I also hold a Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from the University of California, Berkeley.
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I focus on the synergistic relationship between a mom's wellness and her children's wellness, and vice-versa. When we support moms, we support entire family systems.
Core Steps in The Centered Life Blueprint
- Re-evaluate your values and the activities that bring you joy and energy – these are your priorities (aka your Center Points). This may feel like a heavy lift but investing time auditing how you currently spend your time and energy vs how you want to always pays dividends long term.
- Discover strategies for the rest of the to-dos in your life that need to get done but shouldn’t define you. At Modern Mommy Doc, I break these into four categories: the Non-Negotiables, the Swappables, the Contaminators, and the Heartstrings.
- The Non-Negotiables: Tasks you have to get done that only you can do.
- The Swappables: Tasks that others could and should do for you.
- The Contaminators: Tasks or things that clutter your calendar or environment.
- The Heartstrings: Tasks you want to do but that, if you give too much of yourself to without healthy boundaries, will ultimately deplete you.
- Lean HARD into knowing who you are and taking care of yourself. That means accepting the parts of yourself that you can’t change, honoring your deepest needs, and giving yourself compassion when you mess up, get stuck, or feel lost as a working mom.
- Practice, practice, practice. Use this Centered Life Blueprint framework as a North Star you can come back to again and again, knowing life is not perfect, and you're not perfect, either.
Your intentional
motherhood
journey
starts here.
I know first-hand that working mom life is hard, but I also know it doesn’t have to be impossible.
Trust me. The best way to get unstuck isn’t to work harder. It’s to use a framework that gets real results, no matter what area you need to tackle first.