Love & Loss

RTZ Hope

RTZ HOPE is a national non-profit organization that provides holistic support, resources, and community for all people who have experienced unimaginable loss during the journey to parenthood. No matter if your loss is recent or in the past, RTZ HOPE ...

Hadeer El-Hinddawi: Bereavement Doula

Hadeer is a certified doula in infertility and infant and pregnancy loss. She has helped many people pass through the grief. She herself experienced 6 losses back-to-back. After her Termination for Medical Reason (TFMR), she couldn't navigate the grief alone. ...

Michele Benyo: Good Grief Parenting

Michele Benyo is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, early childhood parent coach, and the founder of Good Grief Parenting. After her 6-year-old son died of cancer, her 3-year-old daughter said, “Mommy, half of me is gone.” This heartbreaking statement focused ...

Amy Watson: Lauren & River's Story

Amy is a certified life and grief coach. She combines her own experiences with stillbirth, miscarriage and pregnancy after loss with powerful mindset tools to help moms find themselves again after baby loss. She is the host of the Smooth ...

Scott Huffaker- Adult Child Loss

Scott (S.E.)Huffaker is a diverse businessman who is an entrepreneur, banker, investor, musician and now an author. Scott, his wife Tammy and two youngest children live on the Gulf Coast. He is the father of six children and three dogs. ...

Allie Felker: Henry's Story

Allie Felker is a hairdresser from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her son Henry (Hank) died by cord compressions at 31 weeks and was born still on July 1st 2020. She and her husband have a living daughter named Octavia ...

Tracy Shawn: Floating Underwater

Floating Underwater was inspired by Tracy’s own personal history, past work experience, and sheer imagination. Having suffered through two miscarriages herself, Tracy wanted to write about how a character deals with that particular loss. Motivated from her past work as ...

David Gonzalez Guajardo: Chaplaincy and Loss

David Gonzalez Guajardo is a clinical medical Chaplain and holds a Master of Science in Jewish Studies with a concentration in Pastoral Counseling from Spertus Institute in Chicago. He currently works as a Chaplain for Houston Hospice and works in ...

Jane Armstrong: TFMR Social Worker

Jane Armstrong, LCSW-S, PMH-C, is a TFMR (termination for medical reasons) mom, Texan, and clinical social worker certified in perinatal mental health. Following the birth and death of her first child, Frankie, through TFMR in February 2021, Jane is opening ...

Julia Brown Book

Julia Brown is a dedicated wife, momma, and worker bee. In the summer of 2020, she suffered a miscarriage which inspired her to author the children’s picture book, “Marshmallow’s Gift Garden”. Through this book, her child lives on and she ...

Heather Frick: Bereaved Dad’s Research

Heather Frick is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT #116509) in California and a doctoral candidate at Alliant International University, pursuing a PsyD in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is passionate about increasing awareness about miscarriage and pregnancy loss, ...

Will & Joanne Zerdy: Inviting Abundance

Following the death of their first child Finlay, Will Daddario, PhD and Joanne Zerdy, PhD left their university teaching positions in the performing arts and began Inviting Abundance. Through their current work, they facilitate a range of offerings, including a ...

Arielle Arbushites: Send Me a Song

Arielle is an MSW, LSW (licensed master social worker), CPLC specializing in the field of grief and loss. She has a certification In perinatal loss. Her first husband died by suicide in 2014 and she also experienced 3 perinatal losses, ...

Arielle Arbushites: Recurrent Loss

Arielle is an MSW, LSW (licensed master social worker), CPLC specializing in the field of grief and loss. She has a certification In perinatal loss. Her first husband died by suicide in 2014 and she also experienced 3 perinatal losses, ...

Instagrm Voices

So many grieving parents have found healing by sharing their children on Instagram. A beautiful community has been formed. Hear more about this incredible community today!

Laura Buckingham: Recurrent Loss

Laura and her husband Scoop started TTC in 2012. They endured 7 pregnancy losses prior to having son Bertie in 2019 and unfortunately went on to have another 2 losses since his birth. They say 1 in 4 pregnancies end ...

Caroline Weaver- Secondary Grief

Caroline Weaver lives is a North Carolinian who works full time and is a single mom to 3 year old daughter Charlotte. Caroline is our host's younger sister. In this episode she recalls Joy's experience with pregnancy loss and shares ...

Emily Keller: Siblings and Grief

Dr. Emily Keller is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. She has experience working with children and families processing trauma and grief. Dr. Keller lives in California with her husband of 21 years and ...

Louise O'Donnell

Louise is from Manchester UK. She is 32 years old and married with 2 girls aged 3yrs and 9 months. Her first pregnancy was in 2017 with identical twins, with problems consistently from the 12 week scan around uneven growth ...

Aviva Solson

Aviva Solson is a Rapid Transformational Therapist, Coach, and Speaker. Her clients are men, women, and children alike, but she particularly enjoys working with women to help them overcome challenges on their way to motherhood - including infertility and pregnancy ...

Vicki Renz: Recurrent Loss

Vicki Renz went through miscarriage five times and is mother to two boys. After healing and processing the grief herself, she made it her mission to help other women going through this sad and traumatic experience. Vicki created a platform ...

Megan Maynard: Healing Through Writing

Megan Maynard is a 30 something mother of three, learning to navigate life and parenting after loss, following the stillbirth of her second daughter Violet in June of 2017. Megan is raising two children alongside her Husband Jay and works ...

Michelle Fulton: Cole's Story

Michelle Fulton was born in Vancouver, Canada. She is a musician and author but most importantly, she is a mother to her daughter, Bella Soleil, her son, Turner, and her forever-baby boy, Cole Vaughn Taylor, who passed away just days ...

Sarah Shaw: Multiple Miscarriages

Jana Wells: Multiple Losses

Jana Wells is a 40 year mother of three daughters who challenge her everyday and lives every minute. She is a clergy partner, as she puts it, “we were both called.” Jana has experienced two miscarriages and her pregnancies were ...