On August 13, 2000, just months after her honeymoon, Lori suffered her first miscarriage. After four miscarriages in less than two years, she struggled to find peace each day. As she suffered in silence with her grief, she was determined to find comfort and hope. Lori’s passion for horses and her faith helped her escape the emotional turmoil only to discover how these passions assisted her journey to healing. This realization exposed her to a new world she may otherwise have never known. Her tenacious desire to have a child led her to appreciate the beauty and gift of adoption as well as experience the instant unconditional love that you can feel for a child.

Pregnancy loss can leave an unbearable sadness and hole in your heart that feels impossible to mend. And Then You Were Gone chronicles one woman’s journey to healing after four miscarriages at different stages of pregnancy. Through honest personal reflection and in-depth Bible study, this book will point grieving hearts back to hope and joy. Written from the perspective of someone who has truly been there, this book will reveal the way to lasting healing. And Then You Were Gone is also a must-have resource for family members, counselors, and clergy who fear doing or saying the wrong thing. It will deepen your understanding of pregnancy loss and will provide tools and insight for effectively supporting grieving families.

This book features the intimate narratives of bereaved mothers and fathers who have lost an infant, some recently and others who experienced their loss decades ago. Author Joann Cantrell, also a bereaved mother, understands that infant loss is carried within for a lifetime and hopes that by sharing these stories, parents will realize that they are not alone.

The loss of a child is the most devastating event a parent can face. In this moving memoir Liza Jankowski, the mother of four children, two boys and two still born girls, shares her experience with stillbirth and the effects that go far beyond what people could ever imagine. Dreams are destroyed. Lives are changed forever. The loss can seem too hard to bear. After a trouble-free pregnancy, Liza's first daughter Olivia was declared dead at 41 weeks. Devastated and racked by guilt after deciding not to have the baby induced earlier, Liza was desperate for comfort and answers. If only? Why? What if? Her mind exploded with questions and she felt isolated and alone in her grief. In this emotive personal account, Liza shares her inner-most thoughts and feelings about the loss of a desperately loved daughter and how that loss changed her whole being. She discusses the impact on her relationships, her subsequent pregnancy and what she ultimately learned: devastating as it is, life does get better and the pain will ease. Changed is a powerful combination of a mother's personal journey and helpful information that will offer comfort, hope and understanding. It is also the story of a mother's love for a child that remains long after separation and death.

Grief sucks, but you don't have to. Part memoir, part self-help, part pick-a-path; this cheeky and honest book takes a good, hard look at society's view of grief and flips it the bird. Just like life after loss, YOU decide how to move forward . The choice is yourself you've experienced a traumatic loss (of any kind) and you want to use your experiences to make yourself better (and less bitter), then the sugar-coated platitudes everyone gives you just won't cut it. In Confessions of a Griever: Turning a Hot Mess into an Haute Message, Crystal helps you understand:

• Why you should 'Go Duck Yourself'

• Why 'You Don't Get to Call her Husband an @$$hole'

• Why you should 'Do More Good Sh!t'

• How 'You'll Set Yourself Free'

This book will help you realize that grief is grief--whatever it is and however you experience it. Everyone experiences it differently and everyone feels crazy while living through it. You're NOT crazy and your feelings ARE normal. You just need to embrace the ride and 'Remember. You're not alone.' Come on in, get comfy - let's sit in the suck together.

The purpose of of this book is to be a resource for women navigating through pregnancy after a miscarriage. Whether you find yourself looking for the courage to try again or if you are currently navigating through pregnancy after a miscarriage, this book is for you. In 2018, Dr. Z, lost her son at 20 weeks and the healing journey was an imaginable one. In 2019 she gave birth to healthy baby girl, a journey that came with many lessons.

Empowered to Birth: How to Find your Voice, Build Community, & Create a Healing Space for New Life After a Loss will teach you how to:

• Deal with the loss after a miscarriage and navigating the grieving process.

• Preparing Mind & Body for Another Pregnancy if you decide to try again

• Find your voice and build your tribe & community of support

• Navigating effective communication with healthcare providers

• Managing Anxieties, Fears, & Triggers

• Finding Joy in the Journey

• Establishing Postpartum Support & Coping Tools for a Lifetime of Healing

Empty Arms is written for Surviving the First Hours and Beyond

Revised and updated! This classic book is one of the first given to newly bereaved parents to offer guidance in decision-making after their baby's death and to assist caregivers as they support families. Empty Arms encourages families to meet their babies and say hello before rushing to say goodbye. With compassion that comes from Sherokee and David's experience of having lived through the death of their son Brennan, the book offers guidance and practical suggestions for the decision-making at the time (including why and how one might see, hold, and memorialize one's baby) and over time (such as how to handle such times as anniversaries, holidays and the birth of other babies in the parents' close circle.)

Family and friends can learn how to understand the loss and be supportive of the bereaved families.

It offers ongoing support about subjects such as returning to work or to life, couple grieving, surviving children, feeling guilty, having another child or not, and feeling lonely.

With over 300,000 in print, this book touches the hearts of families at the time of their loss and over time as they heal.

An excellent bibliography and resource section are included.

Grieving the death of a baby is a heart-wrenching journey. Whether your baby died during pregnancy, around birth, or in infancy, Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is a gentle guide that will accompany you. Full of information and practical suggestions, this book can help you

• accept the variety and depth of your emotions;

• find answers to questions such as “What’s normal?” and “Why me?”;

• make sense of your grief and mourning;

• cultivate mutual understanding with your partner;

• tap into sources of support; and

• adopt mindfulness-based coping strategies that can help you heal your heart.

Most importantly, you’ll be comforted by the words of dozens of bereaved parents. By hearing from mothers and fathers who have walked this path, you can establish realistic expectations for grieving, find reassurance, and truly understand that you are not alone.  

This fourth edition has been completely revised and updated, with new information on the neuroscience of this experience plus other insights including

• how your brain encodes your bond with your baby as everlasting;

• grieving explained in terms of your brain redrawing its neural map;

• how your brain tries to settle the dispute between your baby being gone, but also everlasting;

• the various experiences of being in survival mode and thriving mode around your baby’s life and death;

• how your brain processes and heals from traumatic bereavement;

• the pitfalls and benefits of rumination;

• the relationship skill of repair; and

• reducing your distress with mindfulness practices and informal rituals.

Are you feeling lost and alone in grief?

According to the CDC, approximately 1 in 100 pregnancies that survive twenty weeks or longer is affected by stillbirth. Grief can send you into a downward spiral if not held in check.

Even Now I Know is a vivid picture of a family of faith navigating through a myriad of emotions, challenges, heartache, and frustration. In it, Dr. Michael Bullock shares his creative perspective on the conversations surrounding the biblical story of Mary, Martha, Lazarus, and Jesus.

Through Martha’s words to Jesus, we gain perspective about a Lord who can heal us, help us, and honor our progression of climbing out of a dark place and into His gracious arms. When we cannot find answers, only then will we realize Christ is THE Answer. Martha helps us find our way and find hope surrounded by laughter once again.

Discover how to:

• Heal through past pain so you can create a bigger future

• Find joy and laughter so you can experience all the goodness God has to offer

• Move from grief to gratitude so you can create positive change in the world

Suffering loss does not mean you have to be lost. Although painful, grief and loss can also propel us to find a deeper purpose in life. Let’s transition into gratitude together.

Anyone who has experienced—or knows someone who has experienced—miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, or other forms of pregnancy and baby loss should read Expecting Sunshine, including those considering or already pregnant again. After her son, Zachary, dies in her arms at birth, visual artist and author Alexis Marie Chute disappears into her “Year of Distraction.” She cannot paint or write or tap into the heart of who she used to be, mourning not only for Zachary, but also for the future they might have had together. It is only when Chute learns she is pregnant again that she sets out to find healing and rediscover her identity—just in time, she hopes, to welcome her next child. In the forty weeks of her pregnancy, Chute grapples with her strained marriage, shaken faith, and medical diagnosis, with profound results. Glowing with riveting and gorgeous prose, Expecting Sunshine chronicles the anticipation and anxiety of expecting a baby while still grieving for the child that came before—enveloping readers with insightful observations on grief and healing, life and death, and the incredible power of a mother’s love.

In Finding Hope in Seasons of Loss & Disappointment, Angelica Gunn tenderly speaks to the hearts of those who have faced miscarriage, heartbreak, and unexpected life challenges. Through compassionate guidance, personal stories, and faith-based insights, this book offers a lifeline for women grieving in silence or searching for hope in difficult times.

With warmth and understanding, Gunn invites you to journey with her as she explores the profound experiences of loss and healing. From the depths of sorrow to the quiet moments of restoration, each chapter provides:

• Encouragement for those navigating loss and disappointment

• Faith-based reflections for comfort and renewal

• Practical tools to find hope and resilience through faith

• Insightful journaling prompts to help you process grief

Finding Hope in Seasons of Loss & Disappointment is a deeply comforting companion for anyone who needs to feel seen, understood, and uplifted. Whether you’ve experienced miscarriage, unfulfilled dreams, or deep disappointment, this book offers a compassionate reminder that hope is possible, even in the most challenging times.

Begin your journey toward healing, rediscover hope, and let your heart find peace once more.

A gentle guide for parents whose child has died by Sara Wheeler and Margaret Pike. A complete guide for newly bereaved parents. Talks about funeral planning, differences in losses, the five phases of mourning, men and women grief, grandparents, your other children, family and friends and picking up the pieces

When the anticipation of your child's birth turns into the grief of miscarriage, tubal pregnancy, stillbirth, or early infant death, no words can ease your loss. But there is strength and encouragement in the wisdom of others who have been there and found that God's comfort is real. Grieving the Child I Never Knew is a warm, encouraging, and truly helpful devotional for anyone experiencing the terrible loss of a baby.

Author Kathe Wunnenberg knows the deep anguish of losing a child, having experienced three miscarriages and the death of an infant son. Grieving the Child I Never Knew is a 31-day devotional to help mothers:

• Grieve honestly and well

• Process gentle questions and insights from others

• Cultivate a healing journey that works for them

Each devotion includes:

• Scripture passage and prayer

• Steps Toward Healing questions

• Space for journaling

• Readings for holidays and special occasions

Grieving the Child I Never Knew is a wise and tender companion for mothers whose hearts have been broken--mothers whose dreams have been shattered and who wonder how to go on.

Healed by a Silent Heart, Hearing the Voice of the Divine Feminine in the Silence of a Stillbirth is a story of transformation. Kathi shares how her own voice of shame led her to believe that she was responsible for the life-death-birth of her son, Jason. In her mid-fifties, with multiple marriages, bankruptcy and lost careers behind her, it was a series of abnormal pap smears that finally led Kathi to look within for the roots of self-sabotage.Even today, stillbirth and miscarriage is an event that a mother must “just get over and move on.” Kathi’s story invites the reader to view pregnancy as a sacred bond between a mother and her unborn baby. With her raw and authentic voice, she shares the extent of the mental and emotional devastation that occurs when that bond simply disappears in a silent heart.Kathi’s desire to heal her Voice of Shame opened her heart to the Infinite healing of Mother Mary’s Voice of Love. Giving words to the sacred experience of birth, Mary then guides Kathi to understand how belief in her own brokenness, resulting from childhood sexual abuse, caused her to believe she was responsible for Jason's death. True healing comes about through a beautiful and stunning human dialogue on acceptance, forgiveness and Oneness.Mothers that have lost an unborn baby or child, family members that seek to understand and support them, and professionals that are present in the moment of birth will benefit from knowing of Kathi’s experience, as it is the experience of so many.

Presenting simple yet highly effective methods for coping and healing, this book provides answers and relief to parents trying to deal with the loss of a child. It offers 100 practical, action-oriented tips for embracing grief, such as writing a letter to the child who has died; spending time with others who will listen to stories of grief; creating a memory book, box, or Web site; and remembering others who may still be struggling with the death. The guide also addresses common problems for grieving parents, including dealing with marital stress, helping surviving siblings, dealing with hurtful advice, and exploring feelings of guilt. This compassionate resource will aid parents who have been through the death of a child—whether the passing happened recently or many years ago, whether the child was young or an adult.

180 Your Life New Beginnings: 10-Week Facilitator's Guide for Small Group Study

CRAFT A LIFE YOU LOVE 180 Your Life New Beginnings: 10-Week Facilitator's Guide for Small Group Study can give you all the tools you need to easily lead a Widow Strong chapter or a faith-based grief support small group. This resource has been designed as a companion to the main book, 180 Your Life from Tragedy to Triumph: A Woman's Grief Guide. 

FORGE YOUR TEAM Use this resource as a step-by-step guide to easily facilitate and inspire your own small group to trust God through loss, get healthy, train body, mind & spirit, and implement the clinically-proven, Biblically-based, grief empowerment steps and activities shared in the main book, 180 Your Life From Tragedy to Triumph: A Woman's Grief Guide. 

GRIEF IS TRANSFORMATIVE How it changes you, though, is your decision. Lead your small group to harness the power of grief, allowing the pain to add dynamic purpose to their lives. Mishael Porembski, Southeastern Emmy-winning documentarian, and twenty-year network news veteran was catapulted into intense grief by her husband's suicide. To help her overcome the resulting depression, anger, and despair, Mishael turned to her faith in God and, over time, discovered a healthy path to a new life. She founded a non-profit, Widow Strong, an active, clinically proven, Biblically-based support group for widows and their children. Now a widowed mom, life coach, speaker, on-air widowhood & grief expert, and author, Mishael empowers grieving families to healthfully craft a life they love after loss and leave a lasting legacy of hope.

A Powerful Resource for Grieving Couples

Losing a child is among the most tragic experiences one can face. The crushing grief puts immense strain on the marriage, family relationships, and friendships that few can understand. That’s why this book was written. In it Candy McVicar, a grieving mom who leads a ministry for grieving parents, and Dr. Gary Chapman, relationship expert and author of The 5 Love Languages®, team up to help couples who are facing the unimaginable.

They’ll teach you how to:

• Cope with the complex feelings that come with the grief process

• Understand your spouse’s unique grieving needs and support him/her

• Use the five love languages through grief

There is nothing that can make the pain of losing a child go away, but healing is possible with intentional hearts and the right resources

Candice was a college graduate, recently married and a first-time mom. She had every part of her life all planned out; even the hiccups (meeting her husband) turned into a new plan. When the out-of-her-control, unexpected death of her son sends her reeling, where does she find HOPE? How can the stories she tells herself be changed? How will she survive such tragedy and loss?

As Candice walks out her story of life change, loss and finding HOPE, her love for planning never waivers, but changes direction.

Through her journey, she hopes you can find your own HOPE (amidst the stories you tell yourself).

Tens of thousands of women and families every year lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death. The statistics are sobering--between 10% and 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, 1% in stillbirth, and nearly 23,000 babies die before their first birthday--but statistics alone miss the depth of the hurt. Each loss is personal and devastating.

No woman is prepared to lose a baby, and caregivers are often unaware of how best to help. In Hope Beyond an Empty Cradle therapist Hallie Scott first shares her own story, as a mother whose only child, Abigail, was stillborn, and then leads readers through a healing process that makes space for heartbreak, despair, guilt, questions, and anger. Life is never the same in the wake of the loss, but a new normal is possible.

The book will be a welcome resource for families who have lost a child, as well as for those seeking to care for them in their traumatic grief.

No mother ever expects to grieve the death of her child before or immediately after the child is born. But the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reports that as many as 31 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss. When the unthinkable happens, where do women turn for help?

Written from the perspective of one grieving mommy to another, Hope for Today, Promises for Tomorrow is a ten-week study that will encourage and challenge women to delve into a deeper understanding of God’s Word. As women engage in biblical teaching, they will learn to embrace God’s promises of love, goodness, purpose, comfort, peace, refinement, restoration, hope, and eternity. “Hope for Today” verses peppered throughout each chapter, journaling cues, prayers, and the stories of other women who have experienced loss will help readers move from grieving in silent solitude to living life in the richness of God’s love.

While other books suggest a one-size-fits-all method for grief management or focus on understanding specific causes of child loss, Hope for Today, Promises for Tomorrow offers comfort for the reader, whatever her situation, by helping her focus on the light of the ultimate Promise, the hope of a Savior, Jesus Christ.

Parenthood transforms you. Even before this crisis, you may have experienced a wide range of feelings triggered by pregnancy, birth, and welcoming a new baby. The NICU experience challenges your emotional coping, your developing parental identity, your relationship skills, and your ability to adjust.

Intensive Parenting explores the emotions of parenting in the neonatal intensive care unit, from in-hospital through issues and concerns after the child is home. Deboral L. Davis and Mara Tesler Stein describe and affirm the wide range of experiences and emotional reactions that occur in the NICU and offer strategies for parents coping with their baby's condition and hospitalization.

Pure, raw emotions from a Mother's grieving heart! No matter how bad it got, she always clung to Jesus!

For all parents and family managing the emotional battlefield of baby loss. When my baby died my whole world changed forever. I was left full of love, yet deeply heartbroken and faced with the task of living without my most precious longed for treasure. Following a fraught journey of trying to conceive again, two subsequent miscarriages, and an anxiety fuelled pregnancy after loss, I was finally able to welcome my baby girl into the world. This is the book I wish I’d been given – it will help you to not only survive the loss of your baby but to celebrate the life they had, no matter how brief. This is my hard won gift to you. Losing a child is one of the most devastating events you can go through and yet, losing your baby – particularly before they are born – remains a taboo and often misunderstood topic. In this very gentle guide, Nicola Gaskin opens up the conversation around baby loss offering raw, honest and deeply empathetic support to all parents. From coping with the initial shock, finding ways to overcome jealousy and anger,surviving birthdays and Mother’s Day, through to living with everlasting grief and the  fresh round of grief and anxiety that comes with parenting after loss, it will help you to navigate through a huge range of intense and complex emotions. Beautifully written and powerfully illustrated, this book will hold your hand through your darkest and lightest moments: read it to know you are not alone and that all your feelings are absolutely valid.

Miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death, early pregnancy loss, reoccurring miscarriage, unsuccessful infertility, ending a wanted pregnancy for medical or other reasons, blighted ovum, molar pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy, chemical pregnancy—these are all forms of babyloss. There are very few things in life that are as painful as the loss of your pregnancy or baby. This book is designed especially for you and the ones you love, to help you find comfort and healing as you navigate life after babyloss.

Loved Baby is a Selah Award winner for Nonfiction Book of the Year and Best Book in the category of Inspiration and Gift.

Close to one in four American women experience the silent grief of pregnancy loss. Loved Baby offers much-needed support to women in the middle of psychological and physiological grief as a result of losing an unborn child through miscarriage, stillbirth, or ectopic pregnancy loss.

In Loved Baby , author Sarah Philpott gently walks alongside women as they experience the misguided shame, isolation, and crushing despair that accompany the turmoil of loss. With brave vulnerability Sarah shares her own story of loss and the stories of others, offering Christ-filled hope and support to women navigating grief.

This fresh and compassionate devotional offers: 

• Real talk about loss 

• Christ-filled comfort 

• Tips to manage social media, reconnect with your partner, and nourish your soul 

• Knowledge that your child is in heaven 

• Strategies to walk through grief 

• Ways to memorialize your loss

Whether your loss is recent or not, Loved Baby can be your companion as you move from the darkness of grief toward the light of hope.

This book covers: Feelings, Reaching Out, Dads, Your Baby, Single Moms, Other Children, Fears, The Community, and Moving On. REVISED 2020. A Note From Joy and Marv (authors): The shock and fear of miscarriage can be overwhelming. You have severe physical pain, and you realize there's nothing you can do. Your whole world is thrown off balance. You lose your pregnancy. You lose your baby. You lose your self-control and you even lose something of yourself. When you have a miscarriage you have a very real and powerful grief. It may be one of your first encounters with death. It is certainly something you never forget. As we have traveled through the country doing workshops, we have become convinced that the experience of miscarriage is one of the country's great unresolved griefs. This book was given to you by someone who cares, and we hope it will be valuable to you as you begin to experience your own grief and the grief of others.

In One in Four, Dr. Barbara Toppin reveals the blind eye turned on one of the most prevalent causes of pregnancy loss: thrombophilias, or clotting disorders. Affecting nearly 42% of the population, thrombophilias often go undetected in women, yet are a primary cause of miscarriages. At the same time, they can be treated easily and systematically, as Dr. Toppin shows in her thriving practice and in this book. One in Four shows how thousands of women each year are able to keep their pregnancies under Dr. Toppin's expert guidance—and why you deserve to be as educated as possible about your pregnancy and the choices you make for your and your future family's health.

Unthinkable. Unbelievable. Heartbreaking. Whatever words we choose, they all fall far short of the reality. The loss of a child is a terrible thing.

Accidents. Disease. Suicide. School shootings. Murder. Natural disasters. War. No matter how or when, the death of a child (no matter what age) can shatter the heart.

How do you survive this? Can you?

Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child was written to help.

Bestselling author, hospice chaplain, and grief specialist Gary Roe uses his three decades of experience interacting with grieving parents to give us this heartfelt, easy-to-read, and intensely practical book. In Shattered, Roe walks the reader through the powerful impact a child's death can have - emotionally, mentally, physically, relationally, and spiritually.

Shattered unpacks the depth of this loss, describing how...

• Intense, unpredictable emotions (sadness, anger, guilt, anxiety, fear, depression) can hijack us at a moment's notice.

• Our minds spin. We can't concentrate. We forget things. It feels like we're going crazy.

• Our bodies get hit. Symptoms surface. Our health can be impacted. Illness can invade.

• Our souls feel crushed. Guilt shakes us. What we believe gets challenged.

• Our relationships change. Marriage, family, and friendships feel the impact.

• Our plans and dreams are shattered. The future has changed. We're in uncharted territory.

Yes, the loss of a child affects everything.

In Shattered, you will discover how you can...

• Deal with the volatile, unpredictable emotions assaulting you.

• Manage the massive changes that are occurring in your life and routine.

• Move through feeling overwhelmed and begin to heal.

• Take care of yourself and your health amid all the challenges.

• Honor your child with how you grieve.

• Love those around you, even with a broken heart.

• Navigate spiritual uncertainties and faith questions.

• Turn couple, family, and relational upheaval into personal growth.

• Support your other children in their grief and parent well through this.

• Find the people and resources you need to begin to recover.

• Decipher whether counseling or grief coaching would be beneficial for you.

• Live life as well as possible while in the midst of great pain.

• Make your child's life count in deep and powerful ways.

Shattered is not a magic pill. The death of a child cannot be fixed. But comfort, compassion, guidance, and hope can be found in these pages.

If you are a grieving parent or grandparent, this book was written for you.

We will never be the same, but we can survive. And to some degree, we can heal.Shattered can help.

Open this book, and let the healing continue.

This booklet is intended for couples who have lost a baby during pregnancy, labor, or shortly after birth. In Addition, it can provide medical caregivers, family and friends with an understanding of how to help bereaved families.

Addresses the issue of facing the loss as a single parent, feeling lonely, guilt and shame, envy and jealousy, pressure from others, relationship issues, other issues that may be affecting you, dealing with your grief, building support, coping skills, and dating again.

Still His Mama was inspired by the author's lived experience with stillbirth. In the fall of 2018, Dr. Terrell Hatzilias was nine months pregnant when her baby's heart suddenly stopped beating in utero. Her son, Kegan Christopher Hatzilias, was stillborn mere days before his due date. It was from his death and their family's struggle to re-integrate into a world they no longer understood that this work was born.

Still His Mama spans the worlds of fiction, memoir, medical literature review, and journaling assistant. It draws both on the author's personal experience as a bereaved mother and her professional experience as a neuroscientist and medical writer to explore the world of baby loss and its subsequent heartbreak. Through the fictionalized lens of letters between bereaved mothers as well as a scientific analysis of stillbirth and grief, the author explores topics ranging from stillbirth prevention to relationships after burying a child. This work further asks the reader to reflect upon their own grief experiences through related journaling prompts. Still His Mama offers an honest look at the world of baby loss and grief, while simultaneously offering hope for the future.

Stolen Angels is written for parents who are looking for answers and hope after pregnancy or baby loss.

There are a wide variety of stories in this book and each one shares the perspective of how each parent learned to heal.

* You can read how parents moved forward after 5 or more losses (see pages 30, 55, 121 and 161).

* What it took to survive after a baby is born sleeping (see pages 12, 41, 141)

* Parents who endure late term, infant and toddler losses have their own complex healing journey (read how on pages 63, 84, 127, 170).

* Perspectives from fathers ... (25, 161).

* More than 18 pages of tried and true tips and resources to help parents through the first hours, days, weeks and beyond!

That Side of Heaven chronicles Heather's journey of loss, grief, and healing after multiple miscarriages. With honesty and vulnerability, she addresses many of the fears and questions that emerge after miscarriage. Every raw detail of her story validates the pain of losing a baby, while also attesting to the hope and healing she found in God. That Side of Heaven offers a hurting momma comfort and camaraderie, while giving plenty of breathing room and permission to grieve in her own way. (From back cover of book.)

In The Heartbreak of Stillbirth Amanda Dunn welcomes you into her journey through grief, pain, confusion, and, ultimately, the decision to learn to live in a new normal. With vulnerability and humorous honesty, she opens the door to the darkest places of her heart, conveying her fears and doubts as well as her questions about God and faith. The Heartbreak of Stillbirth dispels the myths about how you "should" grieve and gives you permission to find your own way. This book is about being honest with yourself, your friends, and your God. It is about learning to grieve as a family and to stay together. And lastly, it is about faith, as Amanda draws deeply on hers, and shares how you as a parent, grandparent, friend, or relative can do the same after the heartbreak of stillbirth.

A “beautifully written and self-revealing” memoir of motherhood—in all its messy glory—as a spiritual practice, by a longtime yoga and dharma teacher (Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance)

Sutra is the Sanskrit name for a short spiritual teaching, and it comes from the same root as the English word suture, or stitch. This story of motherhood as a path to awakening is, says yoga and meditation teacher Anne Cushman, “an homage to the long threads that run through all human lives, stitching up what’s shredded in our hearts.”

The Mama Sutra spans an eighteen-year journey through motherhood as a spiritual practice, chronicling Cushman’s first pregnancy, her daughter's tragic stillbirth, the joyful birth of her son, the “home retreat” of early motherhood, the challenges of parenthood, the diagnosis and gifts of her son’s developmental differences, the meltdown of her nuclear family and its reconfiguration into a new and joyful form, and more. This is a powerful story of the rawness and beauty of life.

This is a workbook for those who have lost a pregnancy or a child. This is where healing begins. It is a one of a kind workbook that will go through the journey of loss with you by someone who has experienced a loss themselves and has done evidence based research on grief. This book offers the ongoing support and compassion needed to move forward after the loss.

Three Minus One: Parents' Stories of Love and Loss is a collection of intimate, soul-baring stories and artwork by parents who have lost a child to stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death, inspired by the film Return to Zero.

The loss of a child is unlike any other, and the impact that it has on the mother, the father, their family, and their friends is devastating—a shockwave of pain and guilt that spreads through their entire community. But the majority of those affected, especially mothers, often suffer their pain in silence, convinced that their grief and trauma is theirs to bear alone. This anthology of raw memoirs, heartbreaking stories, truthful poems, beautiful painting, and stunning photography from the parents who have suffered child loss offers insight into this unique, devastating and life-changing experience—breaking the silence and offering a ray of hope to the many parents out there in search of answers, understanding, and healing.