Rosemary Baptista’s passion and career has been in the healthcare and the healing arts. She has held numerous positions within the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, worked in medical research at MaRS Discovery in Toronto, and as a Supervisor in ER, in Infectious Disease during the Sars Pandemic in Toronto under the University Health Network umbrella. Rosemary is certified as a Workshop Facilitator by the University of Victoria in British Columbia, a Stanford University model of Chronic Pain and Diseases, and currently facilitates these workshops for Hamilton Health Sciences. She completed the Holistic Health Practitioner Program in Toronto, and continues Mind, Body, Medicine at Harvard University Medical School, in Boston, USA. Her specialization is in Mental Health, and has made it a life mission to find a more holistic approach to healing. With her experience as a College and Adult Educator coined with her healthcare education, she secured a position as a workshop facilitator for the University of British Columbia Medical School Indigenous Health.

On her healing and professional journey, Rosemary has the privilege, honour and blessing to meet Dr. Patch Adams, Dr. Deepak Chopra, and other top health professionals, and experts in the spiritual healing fields, in addition to motivational speakers, and best-selling authors. But it was at the De dwa da dehs nye s Aboriginal Health Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, that she was introduced to the Grief Recovery Method. This experience changed Rosemary’s life and enriched her education portfolio. Rosemary was trained as Grief Recovery Specialist, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2019.

Diversity is synonym to her life. Rosemary was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a third generation Californian, with west and east European, African, and Indigenous roots, raised in Hamilton, educated in Canada and the United States. Although she has enjoyed the experience of living, studying and working in major cities across Canada, such as Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, Hamilton is her hometown and the seat of her soul.

Rosemary’s mission, passion and vocation is to provide tools to assist clients on their healing journey, so that they can attain fulfillment in every aspect of their lives and experience a joyful existence. The Grief Recovery Method helped Rosemary unveil suppressed emotions due to unresolved issues. This process requires focus, work, and dedication for transformation to be effective. A classic metaphor is the story of how the caterpillar transforms into the butterfly. This is the process of transforming states of consciousness from one dimension to another, from knowing something on the surface, then undergoing a deep experience that leads to a whole new capacity and perception

In addition to English, Rosemary is fluent in French, Portuguese and Spanish, with knowledge of German, Italian, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. As a single woman, she’s committed to the care of her aging parents, growing and learning with her nephews, nieces, and extended family and friends. She is also a reporter and broadcaster.

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.” Bertrand Russell