Finding Peace and Light After Loss with Guests Kim McLean and Pamela Prime
June 10, 2009 by Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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From Healing the Grieving Heart radio, May 14, 2009
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First Guest: Kim McLean is a mainstream artist whose music is used often for comfort and hope of the bereaved. Although that was not her initial intention, people have sought her out because of the healing quality of her songs and vocal presentation filled with inspiring music.
Second Guest: Pamela Prime is a mother, grandmother, spiritual director and author of When the Moon is Dark We Can See the Stars. She has survived the loss of two children, including an infant daughter to SIDS, and a divorce. Through it all she has found peace and light deep within.
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Healing from Within with guests Tracy Swanson and Susan Toro
March 25, 2009 by Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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From Healing the Grieving Heart radio, March 12, 2009
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1st Guest: Tracy Swanson is the Executive Director of “Empty Cradle” a nonprofit support group for parents who have experienced the loss of a baby through early pregnancy loss, stillbirth or infant death. Volunteer parents have offered emotional support, friendship and community education since the group was organized in January 1982.
2nd Guest: Suzanne Toro’s personal experience of pregnancy loss and seeing her husband through a course of cancer treatment has reawakened her true life purpose to be of service. She is the author of Bare Naked Bliss and host of karmadharma radio Radio.
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Finding Help and Hope After Pregnancy Loss with guest Cathi Lammert
March 25, 2009 by Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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From Healing the Grieving Heart radio, January 15. 2009
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Cathi Lammert is the Executive Director of Share, a foundation that supports those who have had pregnancy and infant loss. Cathi is a former obstetrical nurse and bereaved parent of Christopher Michael who lived just 4 days. She and her husband Chuck have been involved with Share since 1983, shortly after Christopher’s death. Share provides a wealth of free resources, local and online support groups, an online catalog, and caregiver training. Visit www.nationalshare.org or e-mail Cathi at clammert@nationalshare.org.
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Healing After Miscarriage and Infertility with guest Kira Copperman
March 25, 2009 by Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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From Healing the Grieving Heart radio, November 20, 2008
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Kira Copperman is a social worker and the President of KBC Consulting, a healthcare consulting firm that specializes in helping medical professionals improve their frontline customer service. Prior to KBC Consulting, she was the practice manager for a large fertility center in Manhattan entitled Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York. I 20006, she was honored by RESOLVE, the national infertility support organization, with “The Friend of RESOLVE” award because of her dedication and commitment to the organization. Her experience with patients dealing with the emotional side effects that can accompany infertility had a profound effect on her and was one of the main reasons she created KBC Consulting.
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Miscarriage and Infant Loss with guests Beth Seyda and Monica Novak
March 20, 2009 by Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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From Healing the Grieving Heart radio, October 30, 2008
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Beth Seyda’s life was transformed in 1997 with the birth and death of her critically ill newborn son, Dylan. She combines her 25+ years of professional experience in consumer research with her personal experience as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Compassionate Passages, Inc. The mission of her non-profit organization is to give a voice to pediatric patients and their families through advocacy, education, and research with the goal of improving pediatric end-of-life care and providing support to dying children and their families. Compassionate Passages donates the book Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby to bereaved families.
Beth lives in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband, Mark, and their 7-year old son, Tyler. To learn more about Beth’s non-profit organization, go to: www.compassionatepassages.org
Monica Novak became a bereaved mother in 1995 with the stillbirth of her daughter Miranda, learning firsthand the devastation of saying goodbye to a much-loved, much-wanted baby before having the chance to say hello. Three weeks later, she began a journey towards healing when she attended her first Share support group meeting. Along the way, she and six other bereaved mothers formed a close bond that carried them through the grief of miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant death, as well as the challenges of subsequent pregnancy and infertility. Having been at the opposite ends of grief and joy; despair and hope; indifference and compassion; fear and peace-sometimes simultaneously-she has captured these emotions and the story of her journey in a highly-praised new memoir titled The Good Grief Club.
Monica writes and speaks on the subject of pregnancy loss and infant death and is involved with local and national organizations that provide support to families and caregivers. She is a member of the Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA). Her mission is to bring comfort and hope to bereaved parents worldwide and to educate and promote awareness to the physicians, nurses, clergy, counselors, family, and friends of every mother or father who has or ever will be told that their baby has no heartbeat or that nothing more can be done.
She is also the editor of Open to Hope’s Pregnancy and Infant Loss blog page www.opentohopepregnancyloss.com
The mother of three daughters, Monica lives in the Chicago area with her husband, children, and a rat terrier named Sami. For more information, please visit www.thegoodgriefclub.com or e-mail Monica at monica@thegoodgriefclub.com
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Finding Meaning After the Loss of a Twin Child with guests Jenny Hander and Jean Kollantai
March 20, 2009 by Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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From Healing the Grieving Heart radio, August 7, 2008
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Jenny Hander is a bereaved mother and author of A Place of Peace. After the loss of her infant twin daughter Alysa in 2005 Jenny turned back to her Christian faith. Jenny’s mission is now to share her journey and uplift others through writing and public speaking. She can be reached through her website http://www.aplaceofpeace.net/
Jean Kollantai founded CLIMB, Inc., the Center for Loss in Multiple Birth, in 1986 after one of her full term twin sons died at birth. Jean resides in Anchorage, Alaska, from where she edits the newsletter and coordinates the CLIMB’S website www.climb-support.org.
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Finding Meaning After the Death of a Child with guests Emily Laitmon and Joanne Cacciatore
March 20, 2009 by Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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From Healing the Grieving Heart radio, July 17, 2008
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Emily Laitmon is a licensed psychotherapist practicing in New Rochelle and New York City. She is the bereaved mother of Daniel and editor of the book Our Children, Our Hearts, Journeys of Child Loss and Rememberance. She is a grief counselor and group facilitator for Bereavement Center of Westchester. New York Times Article featuring Emily Laitmon
Joanne Cacciatore found her life’s purposed challenges after the death of her daughter, Cheyenne, during the birth process. By 1996, the former stay-at-home mother of four other children had founded the MISS (Mothers in Sympathy and Support) Foundation, which is dedicated to providing crisis support and long-term aid to families after the death of a child. She is the author of Dear Cheyenne, a tribute to her stillborn daughter. She can be reached through her website www.missfoundation.org
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Helping Grandchildren Deal with SIDS Grief and Sibling Loss with guests Jewel Sample and Nina Bennett
March 20, 2009 by Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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From Healing the Grieving Heart radio, May 29, 2008
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Author/Speaker Jewel Sample is the award-winning children’s writer of “Flying Hugs and Kisses.” “Flying Hugs and Kisses” is about five children who creatively take on roles of support toward each other while showing their individual feelings about the death of their baby brother. The National Parenting Center awarded “Flying Hugs and Kisses” their 2007 Seal of Approval. The National Sudden Infant Death Resource Center has selected Sample’s books as a bereavement resource for families with children. Jewel’s grandson, Brennen, died of SIDS in 2004. Visit Jewel at http://jewelsamples.blogspot.com/
Nina Bennett has 4 grandchildren, one of whom was unexpectedly born still following a healthy full-term pregnancy. She has worked in reproductive health since 1976, and was a childbirth educator for nearly 10 years. A healthcare professional and frequently requested guest lecturer, Nina presents talks and workshops locally and nationally. She is the Principal Investigator of an IRB-approved research study looking at how grandparents incorporate perinatal loss into their families.
Nina is a social activist who gives voice to the often silent grief of grandparents through her writing and speaking. Her articles and poetry have appeared in the anthology Mourning Sickness, The Broadkill Review, Slow Trains Literary Journal, Grief Digest, the News Journal, A.G.A.S.T., Different Kind of Parenting, M.I.S.S.ing Angels, and Living Well Journal. Nina is the author of Forgotten Tears A Grandmother’s Journey Through Grief. Proceeds from her book are donated to MISS Foundation/AGAST, and other agencies supporting families bereaved by the death of a baby.
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Finding Your Way After Sibling and Infant Loss with guest Clara Hinton
March 10, 2009 by Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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From Healing the Grieving Heart Radio, May 22, 2008
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Clara Hinton has a burning passion to lend support to parents grieving the loss of a child. At the age of 15, Clara’s 13-year-old sister died tragically, and that loss began a series of events in her life that made grief all-too-real.
While experiencing the blessing of living children, Clara has also felt the pain of losing six children due to miscarriage, and has delivered one stillborn son. Knowing the grief of child loss first-hand prompted Clara to write a book, Silent Grief, as well as begin a grief support website, www.silentgrief.com, for parents seeking support while going through the pain of loss.
Clara also teaches grief coping skills on college campuses, as well as coordinates grief workshops for schools, churches, and hospitals. The first Silent Grief Retreat for Bereaved Parents was held in October 2008, and the Retreats are now planned to be an annual coming together for bereaved parents. For more information, contact Clara at chinton@wpia.net or visit the Silent Grief website.
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Moments Held: Bereavement Photography When a Baby or Child Dies with guest Todd Hochberg
March 10, 2009 by Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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From Healing the Grieving Heart Radio April 3, 2008
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Todd Hochberg is a documentary photographer. Working in conjunction with hospital bereavement programs, palliative care programs, hospices and directly with individuals, he makes documentary photographs for families struggling with a loved one’s serious illness or grieving the death of a loved one. The images serve as touchstones for feelings and memories pertaining to deep significant relationships and spiritual connections some of which may flourish in the intimacy of the last days or months of life. His Touching Souls Bereavement Photography has supported parents experiencing perinatal loss, as they say goodbye to their babies, since 1997. Hochberg brings 20 years of photographic experience in health care to his work.
His bereavement photographs are part of the permanent collection of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography. He has received an International Center of Photography Infinity Award nomination for 2001 and was a finalist in the W. Eugene Smith Grant Competition in Humanistic Photography for 2003.
Hochberg’s work has been featured in Life magazine, Photo District News, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Santa Fe Center for Photography web journal, the Association for Death Education and Counseling’s journal The Forum and Our Bodies, Ourselves 35th Anniversary Edition. Todd presents to a variety of professional groups nationally and locally. He can be reached at todd@toddhochberg.com or visit his website at www.toddhochberg.com
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