How To Move Through Grief with Alison Pena
Spotlight on Single Motherhood
English - August 18, 2020 05:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Education Self-Improvement motherhood mom pregnancy unplanned pregnancy baby parenting postpartum single parent self help motivation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The pain of unexpectedly losing an unborn child is unimaginable.
For women and parents who’ve experienced a miscarriage, navigating their feelings and lives through this can a be journey that they have no road map on.
In this episode, our guest Alison Pena joins us and shares her valuable insight on the subject. She is also known as “bad widow”. She’s a speaker, consultant, and an author who resides in New York City. When her husband suffered from cancer, she became his caregiver. In 2016, after 11 months of battling his illness, he passed away. Since then, she’s learned how to live fearlessly in the face of death.
Alison does consulting work with her clients. She helps women regain their innate resilience by supporting them to re-engage, reinvent themselves, and to rebuild their communities. Appointments can be made through her website - badwidow.com.
In this episode, we talk about:
The first step in dealing with griefGoing back to work after the loss of a loved oneHow parents can heal after a miscarriageHandling overwhelming feelings of painHealthy self-care and self-expression How to let your emotions out of your bodyThe importance of seeing a counsellorSelf-blame and shame experienced by mothersThe value of writing down through and feelingsThe danger of brushing feelings under the carpetSelf-isolation and hiding during this periodHow to start openly talking about your painHow to reclaim your purpose and rebuild your life againHer advice to parents experiencing lossGet in Touch with Alison:
Website badwidow.comFacebook @alison.penaTwitter @badwidowonlineInstagram @badwidowonlineThank you for Listening to the Spotlight on Motherhood The Podcast!
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