Grief is weird.
Grief is weird ❤️🩹
The Grief of Infertility
The Grief of Infertility
What Grief Is Really Saying
Grief is trying to talk to you. Here’s a cheat sheet to tell you what it’s really saying.
142. Infertility, Trauma, Grief, Addiction, and Endometriosis with Rachel Daar Cohen
Rachel Daar Cohen joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about a powerful, raw, and deeply emotional story of resilience after a tremendous amount of struggle, her struggle with infertility, trauma, grief, addiction, and endometriosis and how kindness is so important as we never know what people are really going through.
138. How to Speak to Children About Grief with Talia Mizrahi
Talia Mizrahi, Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist Certified Grief Educator, joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about how to talk to children about grief and loss, sharing news in a way that is developmentally appropriate for each child, and normalizing the greiving process for children by explaining that you may be sad one day and not the next.
141. Pain Doesn’t End…or Does it? with Chavie Bruk
Chavie Bruk joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about pain and the way it changes over time, her and her husband's permanent infertility, adopting 5 children at different ages and her grieving the loss of a biological child.
Grief, like love, cannot be quantified
Grief, like love, cannot be quantified. It simply is.
Vanishing Twin Story
But I often think about that baby too. Why he didn’t make it? Was he sick? What would his personality have been like? Would he have rolled over at the same time? It's very, very hard for me.
Mourning During Covid
And through my tears I pray for what I thought was. I pray for peace and health. I pray for those suffering from the pandemic. I pray for the world to heal. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Grief During Quarantine
“I had a 7 week loss right after all of society went into quarantine and it’s been the loneliest period of my life. I know that it’s a crazy time.”
No Right Way to Do This
Some people grieve for months or years over their 10 week miscarriage and find the whole process so traumatic that they will never try again. And some don’t.
On Healing
Two stories on reslience and healing. Both stories highlight the strength and resilience needed to navigate challenging times and embrace the future with optimism.
Grief is Unique
Grief for each individual is unique. Do not judge the way someone else is manifesting their pain. With grief- there is no right way to feel.
Grief Looks Like
““Grief looks like seeing the bottom of a pint of Ben & Jerrys in one sitting. Grief looks like crying in bed for hours on end. Grief looks like laughing with a group of friends.”
Letter To Unborn Baby
A letter written to my baby with no heartbeat. To my unborn baby: I don’t why Hashem (G-d) Chose to give you to me And then take you away I don’t know why we were given this test.”
Miscarriage Loss
“The due date. I didn’t bother calculating it. Why get my hope up only to be heartbroken again. So now I’m terrified to get pregnant. But I’m more terrified not to.”
All Grief is Valid
Nothing. There is nothing wrong with you. You’re grieving the loss of a your baby - one that you desperately wanted and were praying for.
Grief With a Partner
Just because there are two people in a relationship and they go through exactly the same thing, it doesn’t mean that they will feel the same way about it, or grieve as long.
This is Grief
Grief is so many things. But it is not linear. It will not obey your internal timeline. It will not end because society says that it should. Grief has a mind of its own because grief is love.
Working on Grief
First you need to manage the pain, then you have to learn with crutches, eventually you may need a little physical therapy after the cast comes off and finally you start walking again.