When planning a family, women and their partners begin to invest in their future as

parents. They may envision their children starting their first day in school, and later

heading on to college to become doctors, lawyers, athletes or just successful adults

living a happy and fulfilling life. As they envision the future, full of hopes and dreams for

each of their children, they are also psychologically and emotionally developing

attachments to their identity as parents and the type of mothers and fathers they dream

of becoming. But what happens when their dreams and hopes are shattered by the loss

of a pregnancy due to a miscarriage or neonatal loss. The results can be devastating.

The loss experience can be difficult and that it most often includes a complex set of

psychological emotions. In addition, grief can also compromise their physical health.

Neonatal loss can lead to a difficult experience because of the nature of the loss.

According to Theresa Rando in her book “Treatment of Complicated Grief,”

miscarriages fall into a category of “Inhibited Grief.” This means that pregnancy loss

from miscarriages or stillbirth most often do not have a social platform to express their

grief. Often women are told hurtful comments such as “don’t worry you didn’t even

know the baby” or “you don’t need grieve because you are young and can try again.”

As a result, often women and their families feel that they have no right to grieve or

minimize their grief as well as experience the lack of social support to process their loss.

For partners or husbands, they struggle as well and often feel helpless and lost in

balancing the support of and processing their own emotions.

Together We Heal Community recognizes the need to support women and families

through their difficult grief experience. Brighter Tomorrow is designed to provide grief

support, education and the dedication to help women, and their families heal and mourn

their loss in a healthy way.

Brighter Tomorrow is an 8-week grief support group experience that will address the

following:

~Explore the current state of bereavement.

~Provide education and awareness on the biology of grief.

~Provide education and awareness on normal grief reactions.

~Explore and process how the loss has impacted one’s personal life.

~Identify barriers to the mourning process and understanding one’s journey

to growth and healing.

~To provide an understanding of the trajectory of the healing experience.

~Explore rituals for healthy healing.

Session 1 runs from January 13th -March 3rd, every Tuesday from 6-8pm.

*Please fill out the interest form to get started. After this form is completed, you will receive a call and an email from Daniel Hernandez to set up a time to talk.

*Every individual is properly vetted to make sure this group is right for you and the others in the group.

* If you have any questions you may email us at hello@togetherwehealcommunity.org