by Anna Burgess | Heal well
Miscarriage is rarely spoken of except by whispers. Funeral or memorial services are seldom held. Society tells women through its silence a lie: that healing after miscarriage and pregnancy loss is quick and relatively painless physically and emotionally. Now this...
by Anna Burgess | Grieve well, Heal well, Self care
When I first lost a baby I wondered if I would get lost in a sea of depression for the oncoming season. Then these words came to mind as an inner strength: ‘you have a choice’. Although I did experience sadness and frustration after that loss, I was proactive...
by Anna Burgess | Grieve well, Self care
It took me four losses to realize that miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and other pregnancy loss are always traumatic. There is always some sort of trauma involved and yet nobody ever said it out loud. My grandma’s death, when I was 14, was the first close...
by Anna Burgess | Connect well, Self care
We recognize that we need time to heal physically and emotionally, but if there are other children that we still have to attend to, the day to day of working through grief can feel overwhelming, can’t it?! After losing babies I held my children in a new light...
by Anna Burgess | Connect well, Grieve well, Heal well, Self care
I have gone through the grieving process of losing a child in utero four times but it has taken that long to believe in the need for self-care! The concept felt selfish and an unnecessary luxury but I now recognise that really it is an investment in all the people I...
