Mother’s Day: Is an opportunity to celebrate the brilliance of our mothers (and mother figures) and strengthen the special bond with our children. But for women around in the UK who have experienced miscarriage, navigating the occasion can be fraught with emotion as we remember the trauma of pregnancy loss. Though miscarriage is often obscured [...]
Letting Go After a miscarriage, pregnancy loss or baby loss of any kind – it’s not easy to let go of it. It permeates your entire being, infiltrating each and every cell of your body with sadness and heaviness and weighs you down. Understandably so, because you’ve been through a heavy blow and an [...]
Do you feel Fear after a Miscarriage? Often after a miscarriage or #babyloss – we feel crippling fear. So much so that it is keeping us stuck and safe. Our Ego, often jumps in to keep us safe, and this is also keeping us stuck. Stuck in the same loop – living a ground-hog [...]
Are you holding onto suppressed anger? After a Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss it is common to feel Angry. We might be angry with the world, angry with the hospital, doctors and medical staff around how we were treated. We could be angry with our friends, the ones who didn’t show up for us, the [...]
When Grief Interferes With Your Sleep Losing someone you love can leave you feeling so many emotions. However, when your grief causes you to lose sleep, your mental and physical health can be put at risk, even in the long-term. So, how do you get enough sleep when you are drowning in grief? [...]
Looking Back and Looking forward I was recently asked to speak at a workshop about looking back and looking forward. I chose the phrase - Full Circle to describe the year so far. Pregnancy Loss To me, Full Circle meant a closing of the circle, for instance I was coming back to myself and [...]
Life after Miscarriage or baby loss isn't easy when it comes to big events in the calendar such as Christmas. This is when we think of the "what if's" and the "could have been's" and "I should have my baby this Christmas".... all very difficult to manage and live with and brings up constant [...]
Prince Harry has spoken of how difficult it was when his Mother died. His way of coping was to put his head in the sand and carry on....which got me thinking about the Dad's who experience loss in Miscarriage. Dad's Suffer After Miscarriage We focus on the women, because physically it is her that [...]
95% Struggled Alone ... Did you struggle alone after a miscarriage or babyloss? Recently I conducted a survey and of the 150 women who participated only 5% had sought out professional help after babyloss or having a miscarriage - which means 95% had no therapy, counselling or professional help. This tells me several [...]
