Healthy Bereavement

Many aspects go into the most healthy bereavement journey. Here we explore some of them.

Emotional, Mental & Spiritual

We here at stillbirthday believe that the most healthy bereavement journey requires proportions of both permission and discipline, that finding the appropriate proportions of these two qualities is an essential journey, and that the proportions of these two qualities needed for each individual is as unique and special as the bereaved individual who requires them for his or her most optimally healthy bereavement journey.

See our resources.

Physical Care

Growing amounts of evidence indicate that bereaved individuals may be more at-risk of seemingly unrelated secondary incidents of injury and illness. Taking proper care of your body as you grieve is important but can be emotionally challenging, especially as you may be challenged by feelings of culpability, actual or assumed. Nutrition, exercise and rest all are important to the bereaved individual.

Tips: Womb Wrapping

Nutrition

Food Tips:

Calming Snacks:

asparagus
avocado
bananas
brazil nuts
cacao
chamomile
flaxseed
raspberries
spinach
sweet potatoes
walnuts

Rest

Tips:

decreasing artificial stimulants intake (caffeine, artificial sugars)
guided meditation
prayer
mantra/manna
exercise can benefit your need to rest

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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BECOME A DOULA!

Enroll now in the Birth & Bereavement Doula® program!

We onboard enrolled students into the program by email invitation.

After tuition, you can email heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com directly to expedite this step. Alternatively, if you prefer fb communications, you can join us in Admissions.