S8 E23 | Stillbirth, Processing Grief, and Rediscovering Happiness

The Worst Girl Gang Ever

In this heartfelt episode of The Worst Girl Gang Ever, Bex and Laura warmly welcome community member Lindsey. She shares her deeply personal journey of being part of The Gang for 12 years, including the profound loss of her first daughter, who was stillborn.

She explains the process of processing her grief and the difficulty this caused when trying again. As a therapist herself, Lindsey champions the help of therapy, as well as exploring creativity as a source of discovering happiness again, eventually leading to the creation of her book.

Listen in to hear about:

• Lindsey’s heartbreaking experience of losing her daughter
• The journey to rediscovering happiness
• The difficulties around trying again, and complexities with her rainbow babies
• The power of therapy and finding support
• Finding solace in writing and penning letters to her daughter during her grief
• How important the hospital staff’s immediate reaction to a loss truly is

To find out more about Lindsey and her beautiful book ‘When Skies Are Gray: A Grieving Mother’s Lullaby’ please visit: https://lindseymhenke.com/

The Warriorship is a membership to help you navigate life after baby loss. It covers every stage of the recovery pathway, and provides support, advice, and a range of emotional tools to help you through this difficult time. This is more than a support group. For more information and to join The Warriorship go to: https://theworstgirlgangever.co.uk/warriorship/

The Worst Girl Gang Ever is a real, honest emotive podcast that covers the heartbreaking subject of miscarriage, infertility and baby loss, expect honest conversations about unspoken experiences. Hosted by TWGGE founders Bex Gunn and Laura Buckingham, this show is a chance to break the silence and really open up the dialogue around the topic of miscarriage and pregnancy loss. No more shame, no more taboo - let's ditch that for our children; the ones that will come, the ones that are and the ones that never came to be.

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