Support After Loss
If you're struggling after miscarriage, infertility, or the loss of your baby or child, you'll find support here.
How do you get through your days?
Life after baby loss, miscarriage, infertility loss and child loss can be so, so hard.
Whether your loss happened recently or years ago, you may be shocked at how confusing grief can be.
Overwhelm, exhaustion, anxiety, deep sadness, devastation, distraction, even hopefulness or joy - some days you might feel everything, some days not so much.
You may have noticed that it easier to access support in your 'life before loss'.
Feeling forgotten, misunderstood or that people keep expecting you to "move on" can seem to be a constant thing.
You know that other people are dealing with a lot in their own lives, but knowing this doesn't make it hurt any less, or help you to feel less lonely in your grief.
This site has been created to offer a layer of gentle support, in the midst of everything you're going through.
You're invited to pause here, to take a few moments for yourself, as you figure out your next steps, with all that you're holding in your heart.
xo Shannon
Free Guided Rest Meditation
Receive the new free guided meditation for a layer of support through Baby Loss Awareness Month, and a collection of simple, nurturing resources offering moments of calm and comfort in your inbox, every couple of weeks.
So here we are...
Though I wish we were meeting under different circumstances, I'm glad you've found your way here.
The world is so complicated right now. Having to cope with everything that's happening when your heart is already hurting can be just too much.
This space was created as a place to find some calm in your life after loss, to focus on your basic self care, and to access the wisdom inside you that can help you through.
As isolating as these losses can feel, I hope you can sense that you are part of a community of millions, all taking our next steps together.
Though your grief and your love are your very own, there are others who can relate, who can hold a shared space, to help you to know you are not alone.
Programs and Workshops
We run a number of accessible online programs and free support workshops every year.
The next workshop will be for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month in October.
To hear when it opens for registration please sign up through the Notes for Your Heart form above.
If you'd like to get started now, you may want to join the Mothering Your Heart Support After Loss program, for ongoing support in your own private workshop space.
If you'd like to see if it might be helpful for you, you can read more about it here:
Welcome and Hello
If we haven't yet met, my name is Shannon. I became a midwife back in 2003, and for years worked with all kinds of families on their unique journeys to parenthood.
If you've found your way here, you unfortunately probably know too well that these journeys do not always turn out the way they should.
If this was your experience, you may have noticed that before your loss there was an abundance of resources around you, offering to help with all kinds of conception, pregnancy or parenting issues.
You may have also noticed that after everything fell apart, many of these resources seemed to disappear.
People often say that they feel like they've woken up on another planet, stunned, with no road map, and no idea where to turn.
I've seen this happen to so many families, and experienced it personally on my own journey through baby loss, infertility and adoption loss.
It can be so hard to find the right kind of support.
I created Mothering Your Heart to help fill some of the gaps in support that you may be experiencing.
It's important to know that you're not alone and there are ways to keep going.
I hope you'll feel supported, heard and understood here as you take your next steps.
If you'd like to learn more about Mothering Your Heart, you're invited to visit the About page, or join a program or workshop.
Most importantly, I hope you come away from here with the feeling that what you are going through matters.
Your losses, your memories, your dreams, your hope, your love and your grief all matter.
You matter, and your heart matters.
Thank you for being here and taking care of yourself in this way.
xo Shannon
~ This space has been created in honour of all the missing and longed for little ones who are not in our arms. ~
Free Guided Rest Meditation
Receive the new free guided meditation for a layer of support through Baby Loss Awareness Month, and a collection of simple, nurturing resources offering moments of calm and comfort in your inbox, every couple of weeks.