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Navigating Christmas While Pregnant After Loss: Balancing Grief and Hope
A therapist's guide to embracing the festive season with compassion, remembrance, and self-care during pregnancy after loss.
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The 10 Commandments of Pregnancy After Loss
Reflections from 100+ hours of listening to pregnancy after loss stories—and what I’ve learned (and you can too)
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The Power of Dual Love in Pregnancy After Loss
Embracing Grief and Hope: How Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Reframing Can Help You Honour Your Loss and Bond With Your Baby
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What No One Tells You About Pregnancy After Loss.
The Emotional Rollercoaster of Pregnancy After Loss (PAL)
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Pregnancy After Loss

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Navigating Christmas While Pregnant After Loss: Balancing Grief and Hope
A therapist's guide to embracing the festive season with compassion, remembrance, and self-care during pregnancy after loss.
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Aleksandra Balazy-Knas
The 10 Commandments of Pregnancy After Loss
Reflections from 100+ hours of listening to pregnancy after loss stories—and what I’ve learned (and you can too)
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Aleksandra Balazy-Knas
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The Power of Dual Love in Pregnancy After Loss
Embracing Grief and Hope: How Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Reframing Can Help You Honour Your Loss and Bond With Your Baby
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Perinatal Mental Health

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From Fairy Tale to Reality: When Fantasies About Motherhood Face a Brick Wall.
The hidden grief of unmet motherhood expectations and ways to cope with the loss of fantasies through CBT techniques and the Dual Process Model of…
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Perfect Madness: Motherhood as the Antidote for Perfectionism?
About perfectionism in motherhood, why do we struggle and how we can overcome it with self-compassion, values, and good-enoughness.
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Maternal Mental Health: Is Struggle the Norm or a Problem?
Shocking Statistics, Differentiating Between Mental Health Difficulties and Normal Struggles, and How Effectively Support Mothers.
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Matrescence

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Unscrewing Motherhood
Unscrewing Motherhood
A compassionate space offering insights, support, and therapeutic strategies for navigating the emotional complexities of pregnancy after loss and the transformative journey of motherhood.
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