The death of  your child is devastating.  No matter how well the process of mourning and grieving is helped by professionals, family and friends, it is something that can never be forgotten.   For many people, the wound of the loss is still fresh, raw
and searingly painful – many years after the loss occurred.  Relationships often falter and many fail after such an experience.

For women whose child is lost through miscarriage, failed fertility treatment,  termination or stillbirth the loss is often encouraged to be ‘hidden’ – well meaning friends, colleagues, partners gently suggesting that it’s time to ‘put it behind you’ and ‘try for another one’.  The constant tension between feeling the loss and managing the expectations of other people around your ‘recovery’ can cause debilitating and long term health problems.

 

The aim of this day workshop is to find the way for you to move from the state of rawness to a place of understanding and compassion for yourself.

 

We describe it as moving from the feeling of constantly ripping a plaster from a healing wound and experiencing acute pain each time, to preparing an exquisitely packaged gift to yourself – one which you can open whenever you want to, look at it with tenderness and love and then re wrap it so that it remains precious forever – without pain.

 

This workshop is run separately for women or men but we have one workshop which
will be for both men and women, probably couples, who are willing to heal together.

 

We are aware that for some the intimate nature of this work in a group setting is not appropriate. We can therefore offer individual healing sessions if necessary.

 

Click here for an article on Releasing into Grace written by Maxine Smillie for Sacred Hoop magazine issue 62 2008.