Season 05 is here and I am so, so grateful to be back. In this special first episode of season 05 I am joined by my husband Aaron who is taking on the role as host. In this episode he is asking me all the questions and I am answering your questions! I share about what my grief looks like now nearly 14 years later and how it has changed over the years, I talk about what it has been like for me to reconnect with my son when time has made his life feel so far away. I answer a few questions about preparing to conceive again and pregnancy after loss and even my favorite books for grief and loss. And we finish our time together with a very simple, but profound prayer that I have for you in this new season.  

No matter what brought you here today, I pray this episode and this inside peek into my story is a reminder to you today that you are seen and loved and not alone.

 

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QUESTIONS WE DISCUSS IN NO.170

1. What your grief is like now, how has it changed over the years?
2. Do you have any tips to help you reconnect with your baby you lost when you feel so distant?
3. What’s the best way that you’ve found to tell new people about Aaden?
4. Helpful tips to prepare for trying to conceive after loss. 
5. Book recommendations for loss and grief?
6. How to celebrate a new baby on the way while still grieving a child that died. For us and for my kids?
7. What’s your favorite aspect of running The Morning
8. What are your hopes and prayers for The Morning and the women in this community this year?

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN NO. 170

1. Check out all of our PAL resources: themorning.com/pregnancyafterloss
2. Episode 148 with Bereavement Doula Elizabeth King
3. Episode 154 with Trauma Specialist Lindsay Blair 
4. Episode 88 with licensed counselor, Libby Marler. 
5. Books
   1. Suffering is Never For Nothing, Elisabeth Elliot
   2. Holding on to Hope, Nancy Guthrie
   3. Walking with God through Pain & Suffering, Tim Keller
   4. Tear Soup, Pat Schwiebert
   5. This too Shall Last, KJ Ramsey
   6. Buried Dreams, Lindsey Dennis
   7. Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy, Mark Vroegop
   8.  Sunlight in December, Kristin Hernandez

 

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