The Sucky Sisterhood Podcast: Interviews with Miscarriage and Infant Loss Survivors

Meet The PhD Mamma! Our guest today is Dr. Quantrilla Ard, a recent transplant to the Atlanta area. A passionate creative at heart, she has answered the call to encourage women in all stages of life and of various backgrounds through empathy, transparency, and love. She is a faith-based personal and spiritual development writer and speaker who believes in the power in collective strength, community and fellowship. {No wonder we love her!!} You will find our conversation compelling as we explore her miscarriage experience as well as her advocacy work, with a focus on Black maternal and infant health and mortality.

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• Resources mentioned in today's episode
  • The Shack, by Willam P. Young
  • Grace Like Scarlett, by Adriel Booker
  • Sisters In Loss 
  • 4Kira4Moms
• Timely Tender Totes
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• Gathering Hope is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. To support this podcast and our mission to provide resources and community to miscarriage, stillbirth & infant loss survivors, click HERE. 

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"If we could get a piece of understanding into communities, and into workplaces...maybe that could change families and dynamics and just grief in general where we're not forced to say, 'Ok get over it and get back to work.' That's essentially what you're saying, when that's not how it is."

"We never wanted to replace Hayes. That's something we could *never* do, but our hearts still yearned for a baby and for our family to grow...It's no one else's decision of when or why you want to have a baby after a loss. That is a decision that you and your spouse make, and that's all that matters." -Leslie Goehring

Meet Leslie! She is a collegiate hall of fame soccer player who never saw the trials of motherhood coming. Today, she’s a nurse, a teacher and a mom of 3 beautiful children. During our interview, you’ll hear the story of her journey through a complex diagnosis, mourning the loss of her beautiful son, Hayes and the intricacies of navigating through pregnancy after loss. 

Leslie’s desire to show the Lord’s faithfulness, both through challenging hardships and everyday life, is woven through our conversation. Her smile is contagious and her story is compelling! 

Slaying The Stigma: Changing the Narrative, One Mother at a Time, encourages survivors in their healing journey, while also educating others who are unfamiliar with the issues surrounding miscarriage & infant loss. Our hope is that one of these conversations will resonate with you and inspire you to share with others in your own community.

SHOW NOTES:

• Find us online!
  • GatheringHope.org
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  • Facebook
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• Find Leslie Goehring online!
  • Instagram
• Timely Tender Totes
• Join our email list HERE.
• Have a suggestion for who we should interview next? Send us an email at [email protected].
• Gathering Hope is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. To support this podcast and our mission to provide resources and community to miscarriage, stillbirth & infant loss survivors, click HERE. 

Support the show

Interested in sponsoring an episode? Let's talk! Email us at [email protected].

Follow us on Instagram at Sucky Sisterhood Podcast and Gathering Hope.

Visit our website at suckysisterhood.com for more resources and support.

Jenny Albers is today's guest on Slaying the Stigma: Changing the Narrative, One Mother at a Time. 

Jenny Albers is a mother to two children on earth and two in heaven. After experiencing an ectopic pregnancy and a stillbirth, she found purpose in sharing her story with other women who have experienced loss. Jenny is the author of Courageously Expecting, a memoir meets devotional on the topic of pregnancy after loss. She is the founder of the Still Loved community, which exists to amplify the voices of loss parents and provide a community for those grieving the loss of a baby. Jenny calls South Dakota home, where she lives with her husband and two living children.

Interviewing Jenny was a highlight of this series and you’ll find out she’s just as genuine and authentic as her writing. 

This series encourages survivors in their healing journey, while also educating others who are unfamiliar with the issues surrounding miscarriage & infant loss. Our hope is that one of these conversations will resonate with you and inspire you to share with others in your own community.

Support the show

Interested in sponsoring an episode? Let's talk! Email us at [email protected].

Follow us on Instagram at Sucky Sisterhood Podcast and Gathering Hope.

Visit our website at suckysisterhood.com for more resources and support.

“Even if you’re so angry today, you won’t be forever.”

Isn’t that good news? Even if we can’t see beyond the anger and deep sorrow right now, we CAN make it through this experience.  Hallie Scott, MFT shares the story of her daughter Abby’s death, her healing process afterward and the challenging search for professional counseling. Once you hear her story, it’s no wonder she’s shifted her own counseling practice to helping couples navigate the unique grief of bereaved parents.

This series encourages survivors in their healing journey, while also educating others who are unfamiliar with the issues surrounding miscarriage & infant loss. Our hope is that one of these conversations will resonate with you and inspire you to share with others in your own community.

SHOW NOTES:

• Find us online!
  • GatheringHope.org
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• Find Hallie Scott online!
  • Hallie Scott's Website
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Purchase Hope Beyond an Empty Cradle
• Timely Tender Totes
• Join our email list HERE.
• Have a suggestion for who we should interview next? Send us an email at [email protected].
• Gathering Hope is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. To support this podcast and our mission to provide resources and community to miscarriage, stillbirth & infant loss survivors, click HERE. 

Support the show

Interested in sponsoring an episode? Let's talk! Email us at [email protected].

Follow us on Instagram at Sucky Sisterhood Podcast and Gathering Hope.

Visit our website at suckysisterhood.com for more resources and support.

Meet Anna Kettle! She is our next guest for Slaying The Stigma: Changing the Narrative, One Mother at a Time.

Anna is a podcaster, speaker, award-winning marketing professional and author of ‘Sand Between Your Toes: Inspirations for a Slower, Simpler, More Soulful Life’. She is also the co-founder of SPACE, a miscarriage and infertility support network that provides space for women to connect, grieve and heal together.

Having experienced multiple miscarriages herself, Anna can now be found regularly writing and speaking about miscarriage, infertility, grieving and holding onto hope when things are hard. Anna is married to husband Andy, and mum to their son Ben (aged 6). They live in the beautiful waterfront city of Liverpool, England.

This series encourages survivors in their healing journey, while also educating others who are unfamiliar with the issues surrounding miscarriage & infant loss. Our hope is that one of these conversations will resonate with you and inspire you to share with others in your own community.

SHOW NOTES:

• Find us online!
  • GatheringHope.org
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • TikTok
• Find Anna Kettle online!
  • Anna Kettle's website
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Slow Simple Soulful podcast
  • Sand Between Your Toes: Inspirations for a Slower, Simpler, and More Soulful Life
• Timely Tender Totes
• Join our email list HERE.
• Have a suggestion for who we should interview next? Send us an email at [email protected].
• Gathering Hope is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. To support this podcast and our mission to provide resources and community to miscarriage, stillbirth & infant loss survivors, click HERE. 

Support the show

Interested in sponsoring an episode? Let's talk! Email us at [email protected].

Follow us on Instagram at Sucky Sisterhood Podcast and Gathering Hope.

Visit our website at suckysisterhood.com for more resources and support.

✨Are you ready for Season 2? We’re kicking off our second year of Slaying The Stigma with author and two-time Gathering Hope speaker, Sarah Philpott! We dive into her personal experience with miscarriages, talk about the sacredness of safe spaces for our stories, where she finds hope, why stigmas around loss still exist, and how we can overcome this together. This intimate and vulnerable conversation with Sarah is powerful and you won’t want to miss it!

✨What you can expect? This series encourages survivors in their healing journey, while also educating others who are unfamiliar with the issues surrounding miscarriage & infant loss. Our hope is that one of these conversations will resonate with you and inspire you to share with others in your own community!

✨Meet our guest: Sarah Philpott, Ph.D, is the author of the award-winning book: Loved Baby: 31 Devotions Helping You Grieve and Cherish Your Child After Pregnancy Loss. Her newest release is The Growing Season: A Year of Down-on-the-Farm Devotions. Sarah lives in Tennessee on a cattle farm where she raises her four mischievous children and is farm wife to her high-school sweetheart. Sarah is founder of the Loved Baby support group and #HonorAllMoms Mother's Day movement. She is a lover of coffee (black), rocking chairs, the outdoors, and Hemingway. 

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Interested in sponsoring an episode? Let's talk! Email us at [email protected].

Follow us on Instagram at Sucky Sisterhood Podcast and Gathering Hope.

Visit our website at suckysisterhood.com for more resources and support.

SLAYING • THE • STIGMA

“The impact of this experience, it hollowed a part of my heart and grew me in so many ways, because of it. My whole perspective on motherhood changed.”
-Rachel Lohman, @hopeagaincollective

Listen as Rachel Lohman shares her story of how she and her husband Mark lost their first baby to miscarriage. When she shared her miscarriage story publicly, Rachel was amazed at how many women of all ages and backgrounds came forward with their own stories of grief and finding the road to hope again. Since then, she has been passionate about empowering women to share their stories, and holding their hands as they find hope again.
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We also chat about the origins of her company, Hope Again Collective, which combines her love of story with her passion for supporting fellow miscarriage survivors. She is engaging, thoughtful and someone we’re excited to introduce to the Gathering Hope community!
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Slaying The Stigma: Changing the Narrative, One Mother at a Time, encourages survivors in their healing journey, while also educating others who are unfamiliar with the issues surrounding miscarriage & infant loss. Our hope is that one of these conversations will resonate with you and inspire you to share with others in your own community.

SHOW NOTES:

• Find us online!
  • GatheringHope.org
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • TikTok
• Find Rachel Lohman online!
  • Hope Again Collective
  • Instagram
• Timely Tender Totes
• Join our email list HERE.
• Have a suggestion for who we should interview next? Send us an email at [email protected].
• Gathering Hope is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. To support this podcast and our mission to provide resources and community to miscarriage, stillbirth & infant loss survivors, click HERE. 

Support the show

Interested in sponsoring an episode? Let's talk! Email us at [email protected].

Follow us on Instagram at Sucky Sisterhood Podcast and Gathering Hope.

Visit our website at suckysisterhood.com for more resources and support.