Loss of a Family Member

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  • Grief—the unwanted Hero’s Journey

    Posted on November 8, 2026 - by Greg Adams

    Sometimes, we are called to a new journey, and we don’t want to go. And why would we when the call comes in the form of a loss? Loss of health with a new diagnosis. Loss of certainty about the future. Loss of faith. Loss of life for a family member or friend. Such significant losses call us to leave the life and places we knew into a journey toward the unknown. Resistance to this call is understandable, sometimes for as long as we can. This journey offers no guarantees except uncertainty and distress. To accept the call and begin […]

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  • Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: Grieving a Baby You Longed For

    Posted on September 23, 2026 - by Heidi Horsley

    Miscarriage and pregnancy loss grief is real, profound, and too often suffered in silence. Here’s how common pregnancy loss is, why your grief is valid, and how to find support after losing a baby you longed for.

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  • Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: How to Grieve the Hidden Loss

    Posted on August 7, 2026 - by Heidi Horsley

    Miscarriage and pregnancy loss carry a particular kind of grief: real, profound, and often hidden from the wider world. Here are 7 compassionate, therapist-tested ways to grieve a miscarriage and honor the love you carried for a baby who never came home.

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    Steps to Heal from Miscarriage and Baby Loss

    Posted on January 28, 2025 - by Gloria Horsley

    The taboo surrounding miscarriage and baby loss continues to affect countless individuals, yet many suffer in silence. Dr. Aura Rose, author of “Sacred Sadness: Insights into the Spiritual and Energetic Layers of Miscarriage,” brings a fresh perspective to this sensitive topic through her research and personal experience with pregnancy loss. Understanding the Impact of Pregnancy Loss Dr. Rose’s journey into exploring pregnancy loss began after witnessing two women discussing their miscarriages in a coffee shop restroom. This encounter sparked her mission to create a space where women could openly share their experiences and find healing. The author’s research reveals that […]

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    Understanding Pregnancy Loss: One Mother’s Journey of Love and Grief

    Posted on December 15, 2024 - by Gloria Horsley

    The profound impact of pregnancy loss often goes unspoken in society, yet it affects countless families each year. Through the story of Lindsey Henke, a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist, we gain insight into the complex journey of loss, grief, and healing that follows the death of a baby. A Life-Changing Moment In 2012, Lindsey Henke experienced what no expectant parent should ever face. After a seemingly normal 40-week pregnancy with her daughter Nora, she noticed reduced fetal movement the night before her scheduled delivery. Upon arrival at the hospital, Lindsey and her husband received devastating news: their baby […]

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  • After a Stillbirth, Another Pregnancy

    Posted on November 14, 2024 - by Aura Rose

    After a Stillbirth In the months following the stillbirth, a lot of emotions resurfaced, and I did not have the support I needed to embrace them. Some people were afraid to see me fall apart, or of saying the wrong thing to me. For others, it was just too hard. So many things made what I had gone through taboo. It made the sharing of it all the more difficult. There were many layers to that pain. To live it is already traumatic. It’s all the more challenging later on when you wonder if it really happened. I felt like […]

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  • Even the Smallest Life Matters

    Posted on November 11, 2024 - by Aura Rose

    Even the Smallest Life Matters The life of your child matters. Your experience of holding them whether in your womb or in your arms matters. All life matters. No matter how fleeting or small—whether it was that magical moment of conception where you felt that swell of hope for new life, or that moment when you sensed the fluttering of butterfly wings in your belly as the song of a new heartbeat joined in the song of creation, or you birthed into this world the perfectly formed vessel that housed a precious spirit, that life mattered. That soul has a […]

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  • Tell Your Grief Story

    Posted on July 22, 2024 - by Brooke Carlock

    Tell Your Grief Story Telling your grief story is an insanely powerful way to process your emotions. At first, friends and family want to hear the story, and we tell it in a haze, barely registering what we’re saying. Then, we might find ourselves telling the same story for the tenth time. But somehow something clicks and sinks in, and we break down into a sobbing hysterical mess. Eventually, you will most likely feel like you’re being a pain in the ass telling the same people the same story over and over again. At that point, grief groups can be […]

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  • Resolving an Abortion Decision

    Posted on October 30, 2023 - by Candace Lynn Talmadge

    Resolving an Abortion Decision In addition to resolving grief and helping parents-to-be, the afterlife healing circle can be helpful in other difficult circumstances such as miscarriage, abortion, or suicide. Many of us regard such events as the end of a budding life, and even murder. What miscarriage and abortion really mean is delay. In both situations, the soul will opt not to return to a physical body, find another mother and father, or wait until the time is better for the woman who was pregnant. The third option is what happened for a woman we will call Lori Dell. At […]

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  • Life Changes After Pregnancy Loss

    Posted on May 29, 2023 - by Colette Kenny Verdes

    In the midst of the pandemic, after giving up trying for a second child, I found out that I was pregnant with our daughter quite by surprise. I remember looking out the window of my bathroom out to my backyard as I waited for the test results. I could see my Mother Mary statue in the corner where I keep it, and I felt remotely calm. I was grounded in the reality that at 44, my chances of being pregnant naturally were slim to none. But then I looked down and saw two lines. My heart was beating, and my […]

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  • Healthy Baby Brings Joy After Losses

    Posted on April 25, 2023 - by Ken Lefkowitz

    Healthy Baby Brings Joy After the death of two babies, my wife Sheila gave birth to a healthy baby boy. “Wow, he’s just great,” I told Sheila as I leaned over her hospital bed to kiss her on the forehead. She was in pain from the C-Section incision, but this time happiness enveloped her, diminishing any discomfort. “I was able to suit up in whites and special sanitized gloves. In these, I can enter the Infant Intensive Care Unit. I’ve held his hand and touched his face through special holes in the side of his clear plastic covered crib. Doctor […]

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