Love Letters are beautiful ways of exploring our motherhood and our bereavement authentically. They are ways we Mother Our Mourning.
We have several collections of Love Letters, including:
- To your loved ones, for their support of you along your journey. Rather than a series of thank you cards, one published message can be simpler for you.
- To your beloved, deceased baby.
- To your self or to your body.
- To your spouse.
- To your surviving and/or subsequent daughter (stillbirthday grandmothers/sisters).
- To other parents who are rearing living children while grieving (we call this Holding Umbrellas).
- To Another Mother (Hope): you can write a letter of validation, sisterhood, and hope to other mothers.
- To Another Mother (PAL): Lindsey of Stillborn & Still Breathing has authored a special program called PAL Love Letters. This is an opportunity for mothers who have experienced pregnancy after loss (PAL) to write a Love Letter to a fellow MOM who is pregnant again after loss. You can offer hope, encouragement and information as you share with her what your journey of pregnancy after loss has been like.
Sharing Your Love Letters
- Publish your Love Letter within our Remembrance Network, or,
- Just use our sharing tab to allow us to hold your Love Letters.
In addition to writing Love Letters, we have ways for you to share your baby’s birth story, add your blog to our blog roll, and more.
Reading Your Love Letters Aloud
After you have written your Love Letter, you are invited to join us on the 10th of each month {this is the first day of the month that the “0” is seen} during an online gathering we call a “Stillbirthday Party” – where we read our letters aloud, through a special online meeting space held within Stillbirthday University.
Later, you can collect all of your letters together into one Still Parenting Journal.
This photo is from Dirty Footprints Studio, a beautiful resource for creativity through bereavement.
