This episode includes discussion of postpartum depression, addiction, OCD, mental illness, and personal trauma. These topics are addressed within a therapeutic and compassionate framework.

Rachel Fabbi is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT), certified alcohol and drug counselor (CADC), perinatal mental health specialist (PMH-C), and birth doula. Across two decades in the field, Rachel has worked in outpatient recovery, inpatient treatment, community mental health, case management, and private practice. Her postpartum journey played a pivotal role in shaping her vocation, inspiring her to support mothers, families, and individuals navigating complex emotional seasons. Rachel currently practices in Idaho, where she specializes in perinatal mental health, trauma recovery, and resilience-building therapy.

• How Rachel entered the mental health field

• Working in recovery and inpatient treatment

• Moving to Hawaii and the role of environment in healing

• Using vision, fear, and grit to propel your life forward

• Developing empathy by walking through suffering

• Balancing graduate school while working multiple jobs

• Caring for severe mental illness without losing yourself

• Shame resilience, addiction cycles, and OCD insight

• Establishing roots and rebuilding life in Idaho

• Understanding perinatal mental health and postpartum recovery

• Rachel’s postpartum story and how it shaped her practice

• The discipline behind healing and growth

• How to support mothers, families, and new parents

• Building resilience that lasts

• Discipline & Mastery

• Redemption & Integration

• Responsibility & Becoming

• Story & Identity

• Suffering & Meaning

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