Whole Again After Pregnancy Loss: Finding Meaning and Self-Compassion After Miscarriage and Stillbirth - Paperback

by Heather Dolson (Author)

Pregnancy loss changes everything. It brings a grief that is often invisible to others yet deeply felt. Whole Again After Pregnancy Loss is a compassionate guide for navigating miscarriage, stillbirth, and medical termination with honesty, gentleness, and self-compassion.

Drawing on lived experience, trauma-informed context, and holistic mind-body tools, this expanded edition helps readers make sense of complex emotions while rebuilding trust with their bodies, relationships, and futures. Whether the loss happened recently or years ago, it offers validation, language, and practices that support true healing-not just coping.

Readers will learn to: understand emotional and physical impacts of pregnancy loss; navigate shame, guilt, anger, isolation, and triggers; honor loss in meaningful ways; regulate the nervous system; communicate needs; and explore grief as a non-linear process. Somatic tools, journaling prompts, rituals, and support pathways are included.

This expanded edition features updated research, guided reflections, experiences of both mothers and partners, mind-body practices for anxiety and shame, and integrated Companion Guide content.

For mothers, partners, single parents, clinicians, doulas, midwives, therapists, and anyone seeking to understand or support pregnancy loss.

Gentle, validating, and steadying-this book reminds readers they are not alone, healing is possible, and meaning can emerge again.