How is it possible for it to hurt so much to lose someone you never had the chance to meet?
That's what I wondered when I lost my first pregnancy. I had known I was expecting for only a few weeks, but that didn’t matter -- I was devastated when it ended.
And so I did what many of us do when we feel lost, alone or afraid, when things aren’t going as planned — I searched to the end of Google for explanations and answers. Little of what I found helped lessen my pain; nothing could ease the lump in my throat, the ache in my heart nor the pit in my stomach.
Until one day when I found a research study that showed the success rate of pregnancies increases significantly (jumping from 30 to 80%) when the pregnant person received additional support during pregnancy after loss.
This gave me hope. If additional support could help those who had experienced repeated unexplained loss, it seemed logical it might help me.
Thus began my journey of healing. It wasn’t a linear path, but I learned a ton and as a result have narrowed down the most essential elements of healing after pregnancy loss into a digestible format I'd like to share with you.
What’s Included:
Healing Essentials Online Course
Healing Essentials is an online course that covers the most important things you can do to help yourself heal and honor your loss. There are 4 lessons and an easy to follow plan for implementing what you learn in each lesson over the course of 10 days.
Lesson 1: Knowing Why and What to Expect
Lesson 2: Inviting Healing: Working with Your BODY
Lesson 3: Inviting Healing: Working with Your MIND
Lesson 4: Looking to the Future with Meaning
Doable 10-Day Plan
The "Doable 10-Day Plan: Practical Steps for Inviting Healing After Pregnancy Loss" is a guide that makes it easy for you to implement what you’re learning in the Healing Essentials course. Simple steps are laid out each day.
The four lessons included will become available to you one-per-day after your purchase
Approximately 20-30 minutes total each day is suggested, which includes watching the lesson videos in the first 4 days. You may of course take as much time as you need and go at your own pace.
Guided Meditation for Healing After Pregnancy Loss
"Heart Space Meditation for Healing After Pregnancy Loss" is a guided meditation that enables you to close your eyes and go inward to invite healing in just 8 minutes at a time.
This meditation is intended to support you in being able to help yourself allow the negative emotions of grief without worrying about getting STUCK in them.
Practice Videos & Quick-Reference Guides
You'll be learning simple strategies and techniques to invite healing in your body and mind. To make implementation as effortless as possible, practice videos and quick-reference guides are included, so you do not need to re-watch a lesson each time you want to practice what you've learned.
This helps you remember what to do at a quick glance, so you’ll easily be able to align yourself with healing throughout the day.
Bonus Material
In addition to the Healing Essentials online course, Doable 10-Day Plan, Practice Videos and Guides, and Guided Meditation for Healing After Pregnancy Loss, also included in the Healing Essentials Members Area are several bonus materials such as an article inspired by my loss and healing journey that was published in the print edition of MANTRA Wellness magazine.