Healing After Loss (with Theoni Bell)

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Danielle Bean speaks with author Theoni Bell about her new children's book, Jelly Bean, A Baby's Journey to God, which addresses the sensitive topic of baby loss. Theoni shares her personal experience of losing her child and the inspiration behind the book. The conversation also covers the process of writing a picture book, the importance of resources for families dealing with baby loss, and the impact of community support.

Takeaways

Theoni Bell's personal experience of baby loss inspired her to write Jelly Bean, A Baby's Journey to God, a children's book that addresses the sensitive topic of baby loss.
Community support and resources play a crucial role in helping families deal with the grief of baby loss, providing comfort and understanding during a difficult time.
The process of writing a picture book, especially one that addresses a deep and emotional topic, presents unique challenges and requires a delicate balance between addressing the topic for children and adults.

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 424, Healing After Loss with Theoni Bell.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you.
0:10.5	Know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy, and family living.
0:14.2	This week, I am talking with a special guest, author Theoni Bell, who's a second time visitor here on Girlfriends,
0:19.9	here to talk about her new
0:20.8	children's book about healing after great loss.
0:23.9	Can't wait to share this conversation with you.
0:25.6	Let's get started.
0:32.9	Hey, girlfriend, how are you?
0:35.0	This feels like a new beginning to me because I went through a medical
0:38.7	saga where I had a ruptured appendix and was in the hospital in New York for 10 days and blah, blah, blah, blah,
0:44.5	there's a whole story there. If you want to hear the whole story, you can go over to my substack,
0:48.7	Daniellebean.substack.com. But this is the first episode that I am recording since all of that, because I had
0:56.3	pre-recorded several episodes anticipating my son's wedding and a little bit of travel. And so I was
1:03.7	actually in good shape to have a medical saga. This is the first time I'm coming back. So this
1:08.6	feels like a grand coming back. I'm feeling so much better.
1:12.3	I want to thank everybody who offered prayers for me, sent notes of encouragement for me, shared their experiences with me.
1:20.2	I'm just thrilled to be feeling as well as I'm feeling. I'm still not quite there yet. It was quite a thing.
1:25.3	For anybody who wants all of the dirty details,
1:28.3	plus some of my thoughts and reflections, because truly this experience, as much as I would
1:33.3	never choose it and none of us would ever choose to have a painful, dramatic experience like
1:38.4	that, I learned so much. And I really, I know that I grew in my faith as a result of experiencing the,
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