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Mary Toland Shaw is a certified Spiritual Life Coach, a HeartMath Resilience Mentor, a Healing Touch Practitioner, a Life-Cycle Celebrant, and soon to be ordained Interfaith Minister. Her second son, Michael John, transitioned from life, 38 weeks in the womb in July of 1991. Mary also experienced 3 miscarriages at between 3-4 months in the womb. Mary has 3 wonderful adult living children, and a stepdaughter. No stranger to the pain experienced by infant losses, Mary’s passion is to help others find comfort and healing through compassionate, personalized ceremonies and meaningful rituals that honor their beloved child(ren). Mary also helps women who are experiencing any kind of inner turmoil, owing to relationship heartache, to recapture their sense of joy, meaning and connection to the Divine (her website is www.sacred relationship.com). She resides in Chattanooga, TN with her husband Mike and their maltipoo, Gracie. @marytolandshaw
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Melinda is an Intuitive Health Practitioner, bereaved mother, maternal death survivor, registered nurse (RN), adoptive mother, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Scarlit Coaching, a integrative health movement for women to find joy and true healing through reconnecting to the wisdom of our bodies. Despite adequate prenatal care, Melinda lost her son Oak and almost her life in 2014 at 25 weeks due to a missed ectopic pregnancy. Through her journey of regaining strength and channeling grief, Melinda was called to nursing, volunteering, and publicly sharing what she experienced in her near-death experience. She was Board Chair of RTZ: HOPE, a nonprofit for bereaved families, and is still an active volunteer with the organization. Prior to becoming a nurse, she worked as an environmental scientist. Melinda lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her husband, toddler daughter, and poodle.
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Growing up in a family that had a passion for writing and drawing, Kirsten was influenced by generation after generation of writers and artists. She has shared these passions since childhood, but did not self-publish her first book, rearranged, until her late twenties. She was moved to share her work after going through loss, grief and healing. In writing, she experienced light after loss. Her first book, rearranged, encompasses her journey to healing and was the winner of the Indies Today’s 2022 Best Poetry Award. Her second book, I Love You From Heaven, is a children’s book about angel babies and children in Heaven. When not writing, Kirsten can be found spending time with her husband and two children. She is active in the pursuit to find wholeness and soaking up as much family time as she can, whether that be at their family cabins or snuggled up with a blanket and a good book at home with her kids. She believes in sharing hope for others who may be struggling, and has a captivating vulnerability to her work.
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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 is dedicated to empowering parents to seek whatever paths to healing are right for you.
We come alongside anyone who would otherwise suffer in silence. As impossible as it may feel right now, we want you to know there is hope. You will never forget your baby, but you will find meaning and experience joy again.
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Natasha de Sousa is a mother, wife, avid reader, and aspiring author. In 2013, she lost her son Leo at 23 weeks of gestation. Since Leo's passing, she has been actively involved in the pregnancy and infant loss community by volunteering for various organizations. She is currently the Board Chair for RTZ Hope (@rtzhope), a national non-profit organization that provides holistic support, resources, and community for all people who have experienced a loss during the journey to parenthood. Originally born in Brazil to Indian parents, Natasha grew up in Canada and currently lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and 3 living children.
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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. She took up the doula course to help her understand what she's experiencing. She has had multiple miscarriages and a late-term missed miscarriage at 38 weeks when she delivered a stillborn boy. With her wealth of knowledge and empathy, she is here to assist you on your journey. She can be reached on Instagram @snowflakesonroses
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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. She took up the doula course to help her understand what she's experiencing. She has had multiple miscarriages and a late-term missed miscarriage at 38 weeks when she delivered a stillborn boy. With her wealth of knowledge and empathy, she is here to assist you on your journey. She can be reached on Instagram @snowflakesonroses
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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 Michele’s career as an early childhood parenting expert on the impact of grief on young children, particularly after child loss. Michele equips parents and other caring adults to recognize young children’s grief and to provide the support children need to build resilience and cope well with any loss. The desire of Michele’s heart is to see families thrive after loss and live forward toward a future bright with possibilities and even joy.
LINKS:
www.goodgriefparenting.com
https://www.instagram.com/goodgriefparenting/
https://www.facebook.com/goodgriefparenting/
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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 Stones podcast. Along with helping her clients she loves her family, her faith and being in the mountains.
https://smoothstonescoaching.com/
https://www.instagram.com/amy.smoothstonescoaching/
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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 Stones podcast. Along with helping her clients she loves her family, her faith and being in the mountains.
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Josephine Atluri is a certified life coach and an expert in meditation and mindfulness, helping thousands of people overcome adversity to find joy. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Josephine followed her passion for total wellness and supports and empowers organizations and individuals. Plus, her experience creating her modern day family of seven children via In Vitro fertilization, international adoption and surrogacy inspires her work as a highly sought-after fertility, pregnancy, and parenting mindfulness coach.
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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. Scott is truly just an ordinary guy who has had some extraordinary experiences that have allowed him to have insight into the subject matter of his recently released book, Lost Arrows - Coping With the Death of a Child. The book is available on Amazon. The net proceeds of the book will be used for philanthropic purposes with 50% of the net proceeds funding efforts of http://www.redmountaingrace.com .
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Carmen Grover is a mother, nurse, yogi, farmer, and journal-keeper turned writer. She lives for her family, adventure, spiritual moments, and lakes. Carmen has chronicled one of her biggest adventures—that of growing her family—through the diaries she wrote to each of her babies. She is passionate about sharing her voice and comforting other families who have been down the difficult road of pregnancy loss, and feels that she has found her purpose, one given to her by all her babies. Carmen currently resides in Ontario, Canada with her husband and three children.
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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 (Tavie) who is 8 months old and a husky/malamute mix named Chaos. She works with PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy in stillbirth prevention legislation. Allie loves connecting with other loss families and especially chatting with anyone pregnant after loss.
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Samuel Martin was born in England and is the youngest child of Dr. Ernest L. and Helen R. Martin, who are both Americans. He lived in the UK for the first 7 years of his life before moving to the USA with his family at age 7. He lived in the USA until 2001 when he married a native Israeli and relocated to live in Jerusalem. He and his wife, Sonia, have 2 daughters. His experience with biblical scholarship began at an early age. His father initiated a program in conjunction with Hebrew Univ. and Prof. Benjamin Mazar, where over a 5 year period, some 450 college students came to work on an archaeological excavation in Jerusalem starting in 1969. Since that first trip, Samuel has visited Israel on 14 different occasions living more than 5 years of his life in the country. He has toured all areas of Israel as well as worked in several archaeological excavations.
Today, he has begun his academic career publishing 8 books dealing with biblical issues. He writes regularly on biblical subjects with a particular interest in children, families, nature, science and the Bible,and gender in the Biblical context. -
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 an intern at a psychiatric center, she also wanted to explore what it’s like for a daughter when her beloved mother has severe schizophrenia. She added in the narrative element of magical realism and otherworldly events because she believes loss and grief can make our day-to-day reality too difficult to bear without the hope that something magical is just beyond this realm. She created these extraordinary experiences for her protagonist, readers, and for herself to help us all feel as if everything in this crazy, upside-down world (and beyond!) will somehow, someday be okay.
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In this episode Sheri mentions a podcast called From Tree to Shining Tree. You can listen to it here: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/from-tree-to-shining-tree
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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 pediatrics and adult home care. He supports families through their anticipatory grief and during their bereavement at this organization. David is originally from Mexico and learned English on his own while working his way through University and his Masters program. David facilitates a virtual TAPS Care Group and has facilitated TAPS in-person care groups in Houston, TX for survivors of a death in the military.
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Lauren is a mama of three girls, two earth side and one angel in Heaven. She and her husband have been together almost 11 years. Their middle daughter, Andi, passed away at 11 weeks old to a rare genetic disorder called Tuberous Sclerosis. Each year as a family, they work towards keeping Andi's memory alive through the TSC Alliance. Their goal is to keep her memory alive in their everyday for as long as they live. They recently moved to Nashville, continue to volunteer with the TSC Alliance, enjoy family life, and so much more!
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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 a private practice aimed at supporting other TFMR parents through the unique barriers and grief of ending a wanted pregnancy in the state of Texas where such care is no longer accessible. She’s passionate about building community, eliminating shame, and honoring grief for TFMR families.
Instagram:
@tfmrsocialworker
@bothandtherapy
Website:
www.tfmrsocialworker.com - Montre plus
