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Grieving Loss Experienced During Pregnancy & Birth

August 4, 11am-12:15pm Pacific

Grieving Loss Experienced During Pregnancy & Birth is part of our monthly series in 2025 called Grief Conversations.

What if grief and death are not interruptions to the sacred journey of pregnancy and birth, but woven into its very fabric?

In the profound territory of reproductive experience, we encounter one of life's deepest mysteries: there is no life without death, no birth without loss, no becoming without letting go. Every pregnancy, every birth, every postpartum transformation carries within it both the creative force of new life and the necessary deaths that allow for rebirth.

When we approach pregnancy and birth as sacred physiological rites of passage—initiations that transform the very biography of our bodies—we begin to understand that grief is not an unwelcome visitor, but an essential companion on this journey. The grief of who we were before conception. The death of innocence as we enter the raw power of gestation. The profound letting go required in birth. The mourning of our previous self as we cross the threshold into new identity.

In this tender exploration, Autonomous Midwife-Partera Aya Maria and Wild Heart co-founder Willow Brook invite us to recognize how the life realms of pregnancy naturally open us to the grief and death realms—not as pathology, but as sacred territory where we remember ourselves as extensions of raw natural power, moving through conscious ceremony with the earth's own cycles of creation and dissolution.

This Gathering Is For You If You Are:

Navigating any form of reproductive grief—from obvious losses to subtle transformations
Seeking to understand pregnancy and birth as sacred rites of passage
A birth worker curious about honoring grief as part of the reproductive continuum
Longing to connect with ancestral wisdom about life, death, and renewal
Ready to explore how grief and joy dance together in reproductive experiences
Wanting to reclaim ceremony and elemental wisdom in your healing journey

Through Our Time Together, You Will:

Discover how grief is woven into the sacred fabric of all reproductive experiences
Explore pregnancy and birth as physiological rites of passage that include necessary deaths
Learn from ancestral technologies that honor both creation and dissolution
Understand how to move through reproductive grief as conscious ceremony
Connect with elemental wisdom that sees us as part of earth's cycles of renewal
Find ways to hold space for both profound loss and the continuation of life force

Questions We'll Explore:

How are grief and death inextricably woven into the sacred territory of pregnancy and birth?
What do ancestral technologies teach us about honoring transformation through loss?
How can we approach reproductive grief as sacred ceremony rather than pathology?
What does it mean to move through physiological rites of passage consciously?
How do we honor ourselves as "extensions of raw natural power" in times of loss?
How can elemental wisdom guide us through the cycles of creation and dissolution?

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