13. Why Am I Feeling This Way After Pregnancy Loss? (and How To Support Your Friend Through It)

Healing Her with Ashley LeMieux

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health

5.0 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Welcome back to the Healing Her podcast! Today, we are going to be talking about a topic that continues to make many people uncomfortable and that is pregnancy and infant loss. If you didn’t know, October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month and so we’ll be touching on the feelings that come after losing a pregnancy or infant as well as how you can support a friend or family member who has gone through this. I have learned how empowering it is to put words to how we’re feeling so in this episode, we’ll be discussing why we experience certain feelings after pregnancy loss, including betrayal trauma, grief, disenfranchised grief, and guilt. Besides this, I’ll also be providing you with tangible ways you can help a family member or friend deal with their grief. From helping with everyday tasks like cooking to supportive phrases and more, I’ll guide you through this difficult time. Keep listening to learn more and don’t forget that you are not alone in your grief. The Healing Her podcast will dish out practical tools, a touch of humor, and a whole lot of heart to help you uncover your way back to yourself and your peace. We will dive deep into the world of healing in a way that’s as relatable as chatting with your best friend. I’m Ashley LeMieux, a grief expert whose personal journey and masters degree in health and wellness has provided a whole new view on the world. Let’s break down the walls that are keeping us from finding the peace and transformation that we all deserve. Find more resources, Ashley's books, and submit your own question to be answered in an episode here: https://ashleylemieux.com/healing-her/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are Allie and Erica, certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches in Gut and
0:05.0	hormone health and the hosts of the podcast Courageous Wellness.
0:08.8	We are committed to de-stigmatizing conversations in the wellness space and celebrate the
0:13.6	experiences and lessons of our guests in pursuit of physical, emotional,
0:17.8	and spiritual wellness.
0:19.1	Listen to Cregious Wellness wherever you get your podcast
0:21.8	with fresh episodes every Wednesday.
0:27.8	Welcome to the Healing Her Podcast. This is your grief expert and friend Ashley Lemie. I've been wanting to do an episode like today's for a really long time because this
0:51.0	conversation is so important and now the timing is
0:54.3	finally right for it because October if you didn't know is pregnancy and infant
0:59.7	loss awareness month this is important because for so long, pregnancy loss and stillbirth and
1:07.8	infant loss has been this taboo topic or this uncomfortable topic that so many people just don't know how to talk about.
1:14.6	And so those who go through this experience often feel isolated.
1:19.8	They have prolonged grief and there's not a lot of support for them. Well in recent
1:25.7	years we are starting to change that narrative to create more conversation and
1:30.6	more support surrounding pregnancy and infant loss and I get two questions
1:36.4	more than I get any other question and the first one is from other lost moms
1:40.6	asking me why do I feel this way and how long am I going to feel like this.
1:46.0	And then the other question I get is from friends of moms who have lost a pregnancy or an infant
1:51.1	and they ask me how do I show up for my friend I want to be there
1:54.4	but I don't want to say the wrong thing I don't want to do the wrong thing I haven't
1:58.1	experienced this before how can I show up and so today on this episode I thought it would be so beneficial for all of us to just sit and have a really
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