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  1. Considering Therapy? Suggestions for Choosing a Therapist After Pregnancy Loss by Denise Jess
    Grieving the loss of my pregnancies has been the most challenging journey I have endured in my life thus far. I feel very blessed to have a supportive and loving partner and close circle of friends and chosen family. Nonetheless, I found that I wanted an objective, yet compassionate outsider to help me walk this journey of grief. After my third loss, I decided to work with a therapist. My process of choosing a therapist is the focus of this article. I offer it in hope that it might be useful to others walking a journey of grief who are considering seeing a therapist or counselor.

  2. I Will Never Get Over "This" by Heather Sawyer
    An opinion that describes my own experiences with the journey of grief as well as advice for family on friends on what words have been said to me and hurt me in hopes of preventing the same words from hurting others. I hope to give a glimpse of the pain a mourning mother feels, even years after a child's death.

  3. My Baby's Not an IT by Paula Long
    Because "it" had happened to me, I had forgotten that people gossip about other people's tragedies. Sitting in the middle of gossip, I hear that reality I loathe: people refuse to accept that our babies were human beings and that we love them.

  4. Spirals and Weavings : Reflections on Living with Loss While Parenting a Living Child by Denise Jess
    Answering an innocent email brought awareness and contemplation of living with loss and life and caused reflection of Denise's own parents' grief.

  5. Letting Your Storm Clouds Rain by Jill D. Chasse
    Dealing with the loss of a child in a healthy way.

  6. Absolutes by Mary E. Mannix
    A description of the feelings that accompany the permanence of infant loss.




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