17 | Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss | Rachel Lewis

Join us for "real talk" on pregnancy loss with Rachel Lewis, author of Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss. Rachel has five children in Heaven and regularly writes about life after loss. She is the founder of Brave Mamas, an online community for grieving mothers.

Rachel shares about her new book, Unexpecting, which walks grieving moms through loss, lament, love, and legacy after the loss of a baby.

In this episode, we discussed:

• Birth trauma and PTSD after pregnancy loss
• Foster care and grief following reunification
• Wrestling with doubt and finding authentic faith
• The Book of Job
• Heaven being "home" and familiar
• Continuing Bonds grief theory and how bereaved parents grieve differently
• Ways to create a legacy for your baby in Heaven
• How to parent your baby in Heaven in community
• Mount St. Helens and an analogy of finding beauty from ashes
• Turning the question after loss from Why? to What Now?
• All about her book, Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss

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