Couple’s Grief
Listening To the Voices of Bereaved Fathers
By: Ann-Marie Ferry Fathers often get the short end of the stick when it comes to grief support. It should not be. However, for a variety of reasons it often remains the case. When I was asked to write an article for newly bereaved fathers, I was apprehensive. I am a bereaved mother. How do…
Read MoreBooks To Comfort Your Heart: A Quarantine Reading List
Losing a baby can be a lonely, isolating experience, and unless one has known someone who had such a loss, it is easy to feel as if no one understands what you are experiencing. For those who are grieving the death of their baby, the right books can help you process the loss. Different types…
Read MoreGrief Counseling: a Guide on Your Healing Journey
By: Kelly Karavousanos Carrie entered counseling after she had experienced the stillbirth of her daughter, Kaylee. Carrie was married and had three other children under the ages of 8. Carrie said she wanted help and felt she had nowhere else to turn; it had been 8 months since Kaylee’s death, and she felt everyone was…
Read MoreShare Walk: An Excerpt from Having Grace
By: Crissy Goodpaster “Another thing that really helps me and Chris is making sure to have Grace in our everyday life. We do this in many ways. One of the most important things we do is the Share Walk for Remembrance and Hope hosted by Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support. The October after we…
Read MoreFinding Hope and Strength When Your Children are Grieving
By: Kayla Leibner I love my children more than my own life. All of them. I want what’s best for them. My husband, Ben, and I have four children – Jace, Kiley, Melody, and Jamie. We sound like a typical large family, right? Well, things aren’t always as they seem. There are things about our…
Read MoreTo The Mom Learning to Parent After Loss
By: Kelley O. You should be enjoying life as a new parent but you can’t. You feel guilty about being happy since you’ve lost so much in the past. The joy you feel about your new baby is in competition with the sadness brought about your past losses. As if being happy about a new…
Read MoreA Trip To Heal
By: Jenn Stachula I have always loved a good road trip, and a good story. And in the spring of 2017, our little family was in desperate need of both. In just a handful of months, we had experienced the greatest of joy with the news of a new baby in our family and endured…
Read MoreParched Grass
By: Anna Eastland It’s such a hot summer that I don’t know which flowers to bring you Everything dries up so fast gets parched and wrinkled in the heat and there’s enough death already in the graveyard There should be a stone at least shiny and beautiful at first with simple eloquent words in your…
Read MoreShe Was Here And She Was Loved: Honoring Your Baby
By: Leslie Steele She was here. She was here, and she lived, loved, and was loved. And being an angel mommy means you make it one of the primary purposes of your life to celebrate and remember that indeed, your precious baby was here. And my daughter Hadley was here and she was beautiful. In…
Read MoreWalking to Remember
By: Kendra Goldman I first heard about the Share Walk on October 12th, 2016 while visiting the website. This was 2 days before I was scheduled for a D&C for my second miscarriage. The day of my D&C, I wanted to talk with my doctor to see if the walk would be something I’d be…
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