Life After Baby Loss: You Got This!

Is there anything you have been postponing until you feel ready to move forward? Life after baby loss is hard. It is challenging. It is trying to figure out our ways over and over again... The truth is, you will never feel 100% ready. You just need to do it, in your own way, at your own pace, step by step, little by little...you can do this! The end of your baby's life doesn't have to mean the end of…

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Post-Traumatic Growth: 2nd Strategy: Quiet your brain to listen to your heart

Post-Traumatic Growth: Turning trauma into strength. Traumatic events leave us with full and overwhelmed minds. We cannot stop thinking about what happened, we keep having flashbacks, we can’t stop scrolling on our phones trying to find helpful information and reading similar stories. Our brains are working overtime and that is truly exhausting. If we want to move forward without sinking, it is crucial to take a little bit of time each day to quiet our brain to listen to our…

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Post-Traumatic Growth: 1st Strategy: Feeling all the feels.

Post-Traumatic Growth: Turning trauma into strength. Feeling all the feels, that sounds nice...but how do you do that? The best way to start is to own your feelings and be willing to feel them all, exactly as they appear.  Whenever you feel down, instead of blaming yourself, feeling bad about it or spending all your energy trying to hide it --> embrace it, become aware of it, mention it.  For example: Instead of thinking: I feel terrible, I have been…

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