Grief Counselling for Pregnancy Loss, Miscarriage and Abortion Grief
Miscarriage
For many women the grief and loss they experience when they have a miscarriage can have many layers and complications in the grief process.
Feelings of grief and trauma relating to this loss can be carried alone (and intensified) when the significant people in a woman's life don't acknowledge and validate her experience. Sometimes people don't recognise miscarriage as a real loss when it happens early (in the first trimester) and sometimes not at all.
Sometimes women feel like they're carrying this burden alone which can lead to feelings of isolation, anxiety and depression.
Stillbirth + Infant Loss
Like miscarriage sometimes we know why this loss has happened medically, and sometimes we don't. But any reason for such a loss can rarely be satisfied, justified or accepted. Such losses deeply wound the ones that so deeply loved.
Life is never the same because you're not the same.
The person you are today has experienced a profound loss and will forever move through life with a different perspective and knowing than those around you.
Abortion
Abortion is a loss that many women (and men) don't talk about. Many women also feel like they can't open up about the choices they made in the past and they've carried the weight of this grief their whole adult life.
Like a wound in an arm we can never get too close for fear of touching it, yet getting close to treat the wound is what brings healing.
Whether you made this choice years ago or recently, there's healing available for you if you're seeking it.
Please note* I do hold the pro-life and scientific position that human life begins at fertilisation. This means I will refer to losses in Abortion as the death of a chromosomally complete human being and a human life.
