Creativity can help you understand your grief after TFMR pregnancy loss in a way that logic can't 

I hope that you too can be soothed and seen, through your words and your writing, your art and creativity.
Please use these prompts as a jumping off point.

"As someone who went through a loss recently,
I have to admit I hadn't thought of art as a way to heal but this was amazing!

The explanations are great for someone like me who's never done much art...”

- Mandy

​Pregnancy loss is a special kind of hell.
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I know because I lost my second child in pregnancy due to multiple devastating conditions which ultimately led to a medical termination. It.was.hell.on.earth.

In the months afterward, one of the things that accompanied me in my pain was my writing. Writing about the loss, writing to my baby, writing about the whole experience.

​Writing helped me, somehow, to integrate and process the death of my baby. 

In the months and years after, my simple art practices helped me understand more, and feel the tenderness and connection with my baby.

I created this collection of journaling and art prompts because so many lists of "journal/art prompts for grief" I found were for the grief/death of a full-grown person.

...and one of the most heartbreaking things about pregnancy loss is that we barely, if at all, get to know our babies outside the womb.

These prompts reflect that reality, the loss of never knowing. A loss of never growing.

Hi, I'm Sabrina, Pregnancy Loss Doula and fellow loss mom 

I lost my second baby to a termination for medical reasons, after receiving an "incompatible with life" poor prenatal diagnosis.

This was hands down the hardest thing I've ever been through. I wish the pain of losing a child on no one. I'm so very sorry that you know this pain too.

​The whole experience was oh so very lonely. I now work with parents going through the same kind of loss, as a companion in their pain. You are not alone. 

Art and creativity is a practice that also helps me companion myself, be a friend to myself in this whole pain and grief. And that's why I created these free prompts for you, may your art hold you in your pain.

Sabrina | The TFMR Doula