About Rebecca
I am a woman, healer, writer, speaker, photographer, and lover of Greece.
After a twenty-year career as a Holistic Gynecologist, I have taken a break from patient care to devote my time to writing my first book, Creating Feminine Health, Finding Balance in a Masculine World, speaking, and creating wellness coaching services for women. My passion lies in helping women create health, not in curing disease, so I was pleased to have the opportunity to work with Women's Health expert Dr. Christiane Northrup for two years. I have also worked for many years in a conventional medical setting.
Throughout my career, I observed that imbalances in our health and in our lives appear to be linked to the imbalance between feminine and masculine qualities that exists within our culture. Masculine qualites such as independence, productivity, physical strength and linear thought are more universally valued than feminine ones of interdependence, nurturing, feeling and intuition. This realization came at the end of my grueling four-year Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program when I recognized that instead of learning how to help women create healthier lives, I had learned to devalue and detest all that is feminine in me and in others. Being a part of a medical system that was dependent on masculine qualities to safely deliver patient care had the unexpected consequence of my internalizing the devaluation of feminine qualities. This was alarming, considering that the whole purpose of my training had been to help women heal. Fortunately, my personal healing came through my frequent travel to Greece, a country that values the feminine and a land that belongs to the Goddess.
My goal is to help women create more health and balance in their lives by reclaiming the feminine. Because my wholeness includes Greece and my creativity includes photography, this website will contain both.
I hope you enjoy our journey together.
Peace and Health,
Rebecca
Credentials
1981: A.B. Psychology, Unviersity of California, Berkeley
1986: M.D. Baylor College of Medicine
1986 - 1990: Residency, Obstetrics and Gynecology
1993 - Present: Board Certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology
© 2009-2010 Rebecca Elia
After a twenty-year career as a Holistic Gynecologist, I have taken a break from patient care to devote my time to writing my first book, Creating Feminine Health, Finding Balance in a Masculine World, speaking, and creating wellness coaching services for women. My passion lies in helping women create health, not in curing disease, so I was pleased to have the opportunity to work with Women's Health expert Dr. Christiane Northrup for two years. I have also worked for many years in a conventional medical setting.
Throughout my career, I observed that imbalances in our health and in our lives appear to be linked to the imbalance between feminine and masculine qualities that exists within our culture. Masculine qualites such as independence, productivity, physical strength and linear thought are more universally valued than feminine ones of interdependence, nurturing, feeling and intuition. This realization came at the end of my grueling four-year Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program when I recognized that instead of learning how to help women create healthier lives, I had learned to devalue and detest all that is feminine in me and in others. Being a part of a medical system that was dependent on masculine qualities to safely deliver patient care had the unexpected consequence of my internalizing the devaluation of feminine qualities. This was alarming, considering that the whole purpose of my training had been to help women heal. Fortunately, my personal healing came through my frequent travel to Greece, a country that values the feminine and a land that belongs to the Goddess.
My goal is to help women create more health and balance in their lives by reclaiming the feminine. Because my wholeness includes Greece and my creativity includes photography, this website will contain both.
I hope you enjoy our journey together.
Peace and Health,
Rebecca
Credentials
1981: A.B. Psychology, Unviersity of California, Berkeley
1986: M.D. Baylor College of Medicine
1986 - 1990: Residency, Obstetrics and Gynecology
1993 - Present: Board Certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology
© 2009-2010 Rebecca Elia
