How to Protect Your Energy and Heal After Loss
Vallen discusses the profound impact of loss and motherhood, sharing personal experiences and insights on navigating grief. She emphasizes the importance of emotional health, the power of language and mindset, and practical strategies for managing grief. Vallen encourages listeners to surround themselves with positivity, engage in personal development, and take actionable steps toward healing. The conversation highlights the significance of community support and the need for self-care in the journey of motherhood after loss.
The Silent Struggle – Unmasking the Realities of Perinatal Loss
Perinatal loss—whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal death—is something we don’t talk about enough. Yes, it’s gaining more awareness, thanks to incredible nonprofits and families doing amazing work, but silence still lingers around this kind of loss.
And that silence? It doesn’t ease pain; it deepens it. Society often expects grieving parents to move on quickly, but how do we move on from losing a piece of our hearts? From losing a whole future we envisioned for months? If you're into mindset work, you know how powerful visualization is—we create these lives in our minds, and when they’re taken from us, it leaves a massive hole.
So today, let’s break the silence.
Uncovering Hope: A Guide for Doulas Supporting Moms Through Grief
As doulas, our role often extends beyond the birthing room, which can include support after pregnancy loss. It is so important to give grieving parents support right after a stillbirth or miscarriage.
Identity Crisis after my Stillbirth… Who am I suppose to be now?
This blog post discusses the identity crisis we have when we lose a baby, from stillbirth or miscarriage the grief we experience and this new life we have to live as a bereaved mom.
Finding Purpose After Loss: My Journey Through Stillbirth and Beyond.
You may find that helping other people ultimately helps you heal. You may find your baby's death to be a catalyst of change for yourself. That is what I have found. That is what I decided. Vallen talks about her journey after the stillbirth of her daughter, Evelyn.
How to Celebrate Life While Honoring Your Loss and Your Baby.
Learning to live after losing a baby is very hard to do. That is putting it as simply as possible. It fucking sucks. I had to come to terms that living in a duality of life and death is a thing and just because our society doesn’t talk about it doesn’t make it not so. Every day is knowing how brief our lives can be but also choosing to live fully, not just survive.
My Transformational Healing Journey After Losing My Daughter.
This blog post is about life after my full-term stillbirth and the challenges I experienced on my healing journey. 13 things can help support you on your loss journey, as a loss mom.
Rebuilding Life after Pregnancy Loss: Finding a New Normal.
We talk about rebuilding life after pregnancy loss. The beginning of my grief was the hardest because I would wake up to this reality over and over, my baby isn’t here and neither is my pregnancy belly, where is she?! I put my focus on my kids, and spent all my time on the couch, writing.
My Experience Navigating Through Pregnancy After My Fullterm Stillbirth
My journey to having my rainbow baby after the full term loss of my daughter, Evelyn, was anything but happy. I was full of turmoil and fear everyday.
Through Pain, To Purpose: The Other Side of Pregnancy Loss
We hear the stories of the women who lose a baby and how negatively it affects their lives. The questions we should be asking are why some moms are affected more than others and is there “another side” to the grief and pain we experience.
If We Talk About Our Loss, We Are Looking For Attention…
I’ve seen enough to know that there are parts of society that feel the need to tell loss moms that they are just trying to get attention. Umm… Yes we are looking for attention. But not in the shallow ways you may think.