Sacred Sadness: Insights on the Spiritual and Energetic Layers of Miscarriage (Awareness Collection)

Sacred Sadness: Insights on the Spiritual and Energetic Layers of Miscarriage (Awareness Collection)

*****THE FIRST BOOK ON THE SPIRITUALITY AND ENERGETICS OF BABY LOSS. AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE INCLUDING THE US, CANADA, FRANCE, ARGENTINA, AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE. A PROBING INQUIRY INTO GAME CHANGERS FOR OUR HEALING.***** Sacred Sadness opens a conversation on an otherwise taboo subject that connects us all—whether we wish to have a family or remain child free; are straight or LGBTQIA2S+; are trying to conceive naturally or through IVF; and regardless of our socio-economic background or the color of our skin—we have all either experienced the loss of a baby or are closely related to someone who has, knowingly or not. Listening to each other’s stories helps to broaden the lens through which we see trauma, to better understand what is happening to us, and to go deeper into our healing. Sacred Sadness honors baby loss as a journey of both tremendous challenge as well as presence, curiosity, and exploration—with gentle openness. It holds space for us as whole human beings, from a place of grounded inner strength. In miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, or termination for medical reasons, many powerful things happen beyond the physical experience of losing a baby. The spiritual connection established with each baby often continues to guide the lives of those who were expecting them, often long after a loss. Such experiences have also restructured family dynamics and redirected entire lives. Sacred Sadness offers an overdue validation of the uniquely personal experiences of people. It acknowledges that human beings rarely fit perfectly into molds laid out merely in theories or existing policies. Our instinct and intuition—as well as our connection with our communities and nature—are vital therapeutic relationships. Baby loss is widely diverse for each and every one of us. It is universal in the grief and sacred bond formed with the child that is considered “lost.” Sacred Sadness brings in healers to help illuminate our path—despite, and in the midst of, often momentous pressures. It holds space for our growth as we traverse the in-betweens. From psychotherapy to shamanism, to cranio-sacral therapy, hypnotherapy, womb work, somatic therapy, and astrology; new approaches to physical, emotional, mental, psychological, spiritual, and energetic health are emerging. Such insights can help us to better understand the subtle energetic parts of us that may be hindering or supporting our fertility. Ultimately, such gifts are here to help foster and restore our wholeness so that we can thrive. Sacred Sadness is an invitation for the public—as well as social thinkers and reformers, health practitioners, policy makers, researchers, philosophers and politicians alike—to rethink women’s reproductive rights, fertility issues, as well as the meaning and practice of healthcare for all.