Latest Miscarriage support Podcast Episodes
S3 E4 Guided Relaxation for Holiday Stress
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 09, 2022 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis time of year can bring a sense of magic and joy and at the same time, the holidays can also bring feelings of overwhelm and stress. Michelle shares this special holiday guided meditation which is designed to help release the stress and strain you may be feeling and gain a sense of clarity ...
S2 E12 Guided Relaxation for Holiday Stress
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 09, 2022 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis time of year can bring a sense of magic and joy and at the same time, the holidays can also bring feelings of overwhelm and stress. Michelle shares this special holiday guided meditation which is designed to help release the stress and strain you may be feeling and gain a sense of clarity r...
S2 E11 Different Types of Grief
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 25, 2022 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPregnancy and infant loss can often be the first experience of grief that parents face. Because we live in grief illiterate culture, we often lack the experience and knowledge of what is normal and expected as someone grieves and mourns. Education helps to provide a roadmap through the rocky terr...
S3 E3 Different Types of Grief
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 25, 2022 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPregnancy and infant loss can often be the first experience of grief that parents face. Because we live in grief illiterate culture, we often lack the experience and knowledge of what is normal and expected as someone grieves and mourns. Education helps to provide a roadmap through the rocky ter...
S2 E10 Understanding the Six Stages of Grief
Birth Ease Loss Support - October 28, 2022 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs a Certified Grief Educator with David Kessler and Grief.com, Michelle explains the Five Stages of Grief™️- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance as well as the sixth stage- meaning through the lens of pregnancy and infant loss. She shares that unfortunately over the years the 5...
S3 E2 Understanding the Six Stages of Grief
Birth Ease Loss Support - October 28, 2022 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs a Certified Grief Educator with David Kessler and Grief.com, Michelle explains the Five Stages of Grief™️- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance as well as the sixth stage- meaning through the lens of pregnancy and infant loss. She shares that unfortunately over the years the ...
S3 E1 Good Grief Parenting with Michele Benyo
Birth Ease Loss Support - September 30, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichele Benyo, founder of Good Grief Parenting shares with Michelle the 4 keys for parents with young children navigating perinatal loss. These 4 keys are self-care, accurate words describing death, inviting conversation, and honoring child-sized grief. She also explains why we need to avoid tel...
S2 E9 Good Grief Parenting with Michele Benyo
Birth Ease Loss Support - September 30, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichele Benyo, founder of Good Grief Parenting shares with Michelle the 4 keys for parents with young children navigating perinatal loss. These 4 keys are self-care, accurate words describing death, inviting conversation, and honoring child-sized grief. She also explains why we need to avoid tell...
S2 E8 Renew- Compassionate Breathing for Healing after Abortion
Birth Ease Loss Support - August 26, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAnna Humphreys, co-director of Calm Birth, and Michelle explain the last practice in this series of 3 meditations for healing during or after an abortion. This meditation, Renew, is based on the practice of Giving and Receiving, a practice from ancient wisdom. It is tong len, compassionate breath...
S2 E7 Restore- Progressive Relaxation for Healing after Abortion
Birth Ease Loss Support - August 19, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAnna Humphreys, the co-director of Calm Birth, shares why this project of healing meditations for abortion is essential. Restore, the second meditation in the series is based on the practice of opening, a healing progressive relaxation meditation. The method is based on Progressive Relaxation te...
S2 E6 Connect- a Healing Meditation for Abortion
Birth Ease Loss Support - August 12, 2022 07:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle shares the first of 3 meditations intended for healing during or after an abortion. This first meditation, Connect, is based on the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Vase Breathing or Complete Breathing. It's an invitation to tune into the body, recognize the tendencies of the mind, and rel...
S2 E5 I Love You Still: A Memorial Baby Book with Margaret Scofield and Ann Pearson
Birth Ease Loss Support - July 22, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAnn Pearson and author Margaret Scofield share with Michelle the journey behind the much-needed book I Love You Still: A Memorial Baby Book, which was inspired by the loss of Ann's daughter, Riley, due to miscarriage. I Love You Still is a first-of-its-kind baby memory book made for moms experie...
S2 E4 Why is Mommy Crying: Explaining Early Pregnancy Loss to Children with I. Cori Baill, MD
Birth Ease Loss Support - June 24, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDrawing upon her experience as an OB/GYN and as a mother that has felt the sorrow of pregnancy loss, Dr. I. Cori Baill shares with Michelle the journey of writing her beautiful and much-needed book, "Why is Mommy Crying-explaining early pregnancy loss to young children". Dr. Baill provides sugge...
S2 E3 Children- The Forgotten Grievers with Laura LaBelle
Birth Ease Loss Support - May 27, 2022 21:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsLaura LaBelle and Michelle discuss how children are often overlooked as grievers when death and loss occur. They remind us when death and loss occur children are learning how to manage their grief and that they must adjust to a new identity that this loss brings. Laura stresses the importance of ...
S2 E2 International Bereaved Mother's Day
Birth Ease Loss Support - April 23, 2022 03:35 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMother’s Day can be quite painful for those who have lost their mom or for those that have struggled to become pregnant, experienced pregnancy and infant loss, or the death of a child. For many, the day may bring feelings of sadness, isolation, loneliness, unworthiness, and pain. They may feel le...
S2 E1 The Grief and Loss of Placing a Child for Adoption with Sunni VonMutius
Birth Ease Loss Support - March 25, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle and Sunni VonMutius discuss a type of pregnancy and infant loss in which the grief and loss may go largely unacknowledged: that of placing a baby for adoption. Sunni shares her experience of becoming pregnant as a teenager and placing her son for adoption. Together they explore how the p...
S1 E33 Bible Verses for Grief and Loss
Birth Ease Loss Support - February 04, 2022 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhen we are facing the loss of a baby, it isn't unusual to question one's faith. All the truths that we thought we believed can feel like a lie. We may even feel abandoned or punished by God. When grieving, reminders of God’s Word can soothe the emotions and thoughts surging through our hearts an...
S1 E32 Breast Cancer, Hospice, and Keeping Your Sense of Humor with Vicky Kramer
Birth Ease Loss Support - January 28, 2022 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle and her sister-in-law, Vicky Kramer, have a heart-to-heart conversation about Vicky's experience with breast cancer and the decision to enter into hospice care. Vicky shares some of the things that well-meaning folks may say to a cancer patient that can be quite hurtful or offensive. She...
S1 E31 Navigating Grief and Loss During the Pandemic with Susan Dascenzi
Birth Ease Loss Support - January 21, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this very personal episode, Michelle and Susan Dascenzi, Licensed Psychotherapist, discuss the implications of the pandemic as it relates to grief and loss. While this episode was originally recorded in September 2020, Susan's wisdom regarding the journey of grief is just as relevant now espec...
S1 E30 The Messiness of Grief with Sarah Dickey
Birth Ease Loss Support - January 14, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle shares her heartfelt conversation with Sarah L. Dickey, grief recovery specialist and fellow Calm Birth Teacher. Together they discuss the importance of holding space for the messiness of grief. "What if we created ways in which we trusted our ability to grieve?"— Sarah L. Dickey
S1 E29 Calm Birth Meditations for Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Birth Ease Loss Support - January 07, 2022 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle is a certified Calm Birth Teacher. She explains the Calm Birth meditation practices and shares samples of the meditations the organization designed for pregnancy and infant loss.
S1 E28 Peaceful Fountain Meditation for Grief
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 31, 2021 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMichelle has created a healing meditation as we close out 2021 and enter into the New Year 2022. This meditation can be used anytime to release the heaviness of stress, strain, and grief. It is also useful for those times when you may feel triggered, especially by someone's insensitive remarks or...
S1 E27 Yoga, Breath, and Meditation for Grief with Stephanie Smith
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 24, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsStephanie Smith, E-RYT, PRYT shares with Michelle how meditation and her yoga practice helped her to work through the grief, guilt, and fear of infertility, difficult pregnancies, and miscarriages. Together they discuss how pregnancy loss can shake one's faith, how unaddressed grief can impact us...
S1 E26 Grief, Hope, Signs, and Miracles- My Fertility Journey with Tammy
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 17, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTammy candidly shares her unexpectedly difficult journey to become pregnant. In her sharing, she provides the insights she gleaned as she worked with her obstetricians, reproductive endocrinologists, fertility specialists, registered dietitians, acupuncture physicians, her extensive research rega...
S1 E25 Pregnancy After Loss- Creating a Positive State of Mind with Dr. Ankita Marjadi
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 10, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDr. Ankita Marjadi openly shares with Michelle how her book "Knock, Knock, Let's Talk" was born during her second pregnancy as she searched for a way to lessen the fear and stress that threatened to consume her after losing her first child to stillbirth.
S1 E24 Grief, Loss, and The Great Mother with Isa Gucciardi
Birth Ease Loss Support - December 03, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIsa Gucciardi provides insights from her over twenty-five years of experience in supporting the bereaved. She shares the initiations that women experience throughout their lifetime which include our own birth, puberty, menses, the first sexual experience with another person, giving birth, menopau...
S1 E23 My Fertility Journey with Jasmine Katatikarn
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 26, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsJasmine Katatikarn shares her almost 6 year long fertility journey. Together, Jasmine and Michelle discuss how difficult and lonely infertility can be for so many, the importance of advocating for yourself, as well as finding someone to talk to or a way to process and release the feelings and emo...
S1 E22 Reflections on Motherhood and Baby Loss with Nazli
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 19, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsNazli openly shares her story of motherhood, the trauma she endured from her cesareans with the births of boys, and grief of her miscarriages. As a linguist, Nazli and Michelle reflect upon how the language and culture around women's bodies strip women of their power creating the guilt, shame, se...
S1 E21 Grief and Loss During the Holidays and a Guided Meditation
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 12, 2021 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe holiday season can be magical, and at the same time there are the images and expectations of happy family get-togethers and the pressure to keep up with the parties, gift-giving, and years of tradition. Michelle has created this special episode for those of us facing the holidays after experi...
S1 E20 The Experience of Pregnancy Loss with Brianne Griffis
Birth Ease Loss Support - November 08, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBrianne Griffis, Birth/Postpartum/ Bereavement Doula, and Certified Lactation Counselor, candidly shares with Michelle her journey of motherhood through pregnancy, life-threatening hyperemesis gravidarum, birth, and the loss of 5 pregnancies. Together they discuss how trauma and loss can take man...
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