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Monique Ross is a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. Hosts Liana and Amy learn about this practice and how people grieving miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, neonatal death and child loss can benefit from Nature Bathing.  "Nature bathing is a mindful way to support your health and wellbeing, connect with nature, and wash away the stresses of the modern world — no water necessary!  Inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, it involves slowing down, and immersing yourself in nature in a conscious and contemplative way."  Social media:  @glimmer_project @daydot_midwifery @brisbanegriefcounselling @heartwood_with_mon Special thank you to: - 3P Studio Hosts: Amy Larsen and Liana Quinlivan Podcast Producer and Glimmer Project Founder: Dr Ashleigh Smith  Caroline Renshaw, Fiona Jordan and all our special guests for this season    Links:  Home - Red Nose Australia Brisbane Grief Counselling Home - Amy Larsen specialising in loss, grief and trauma. Brisbane Grief Counselling Brisbane Grief Counselling Day Dot Midwifery Heartwood Nature Bathing

Associate Professor Fran Boyle shares the MAJOR research findings for improving care for parents and families after perinatal loss.  Fran is a Principal Investigator with the Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth where she co-leads the Care after Stillbirth program. Her research addresses the psychosocial impacts of perinatal loss and is committed to improving outcomes for women and families through the implementation and evaluation of best practice parent-centered perinatal bereavement care in hospital and community settings.    Social media:  @glimmer_project @daydot_midwifery @brisbanegriefcounselling @rednosegriefandloss    Special thank you to: - 3P Studio Hosts: Amy Larsen and Liana Quinlivan Podcast Producer and Glimmer Project Founder: Dr Ashleigh Smith  Caroline Renshaw, Fiona Jordan and all our special guests for this season    Links:  Home - Red Nose Australia Brisbane Grief Counselling Home - Amy Larsen specialising in loss, grief and trauma. Brisbane Grief Counselling Brisbane Grief Counselling Day Dot Midwifery Developing a parent version of a guideline for respectful and supportive perinatal bereavement care | The Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth  

Faith, traditions and spiritual beliefs can be shaken or strengthened in the wake of pregnancy loss/stillbirth/TFMR/miscarriage/child loss. Amy and Liana (season 5 hosts) talk about complexity between the layers of grief.  Special thank you to: - 3P Studio Hosts: Amy Larsen and Liana Quinlivan Podcast Producer and Glimmer Project Founder: Dr Ashleigh Smith  Caroline Renshaw, Fiona Jordan and all our special guests for this season    Links:  Home - Red Nose Australia Brisbane Grief Counselling Home - Amy Larsen specialising in loss, grief and trauma. Brisbane Grief Counselling Brisbane Grief Counselling Day Dot Midwifery Social media:  @glimmer_project @daydot_midwifery @brisbanegriefcounselling @rednosegriefandloss   

Liana Quinlivan and Amy Larsen discuss strategies, boundaries, emotions and communication options for bereaved mums who can feel really vulnerable returning to work.  Special thank you to: - 3P Studio Hosts: Amy Larsen and Liana Quinlivan Podcast Producer and Glimmer Project Founder: Dr Ashleigh Smith  Caroline Renshaw, Fiona Jordan, Courtney Amato and all our special guests for this season     Social media:  @glimmer_project @daydot_midwifery @brisbanegriefcounselling @rednosegriefandloss    Links:  Home - Red Nose Australia Brisbane Grief Counselling Home - Amy Larsen specialising in loss, grief and trauma. Brisbane Grief Counselling Brisbane Grief Counselling Day Dot Midwifery

How can you support yourself after perinatal grief and loss after miscarriage/stillbirth/neonatal loss/TFMR/neonatal loss? Liana and Amy discuss ways of:  - connecting with your baby that has passed - continuing bonds  - integrating this loss into your life  - learning about yourself   Special thank you to: - 3P Studio Hosts: Amy Larsen and Liana Quinlivan Podcast Producer and Glimmer Project Founder: Dr Ashleigh Smith  Caroline Renshaw, Fiona Jordan and all our special guests for this season     Social media:  @glimmer_project @daydot_midwifery @brisbanegriefcounselling @rednosegriefandloss    Links:  Home - Red Nose Australia Brisbane Grief Counselling Home - Amy Larsen specialising in loss, grief and trauma. Brisbane Grief Counselling Brisbane Grief Counselling Day Dot Midwifery

Friendships change after pregnancy loss.  Season 5 introduces hosts Liana Quinlivan and Amy Larsen. These women work in the grief and loss space and are long-term friends who navigated a terrible tragedy that threatened to ruin their friendship.  Filled with honesty, warmth, wisdom, the hosts put words around what many of us have experienced - you are going to treasure this episode.  Links:  Home - Red Nose Australia Brisbane Grief Counselling Home - Amy Larsen specialising in loss, grief and trauma. Brisbane Grief Counselling Brisbane Grief Counselling Day Dot Midwifery   Special thank you to: - 3P Studio Hosts: Amy Larsen and Liana Quinlivan Podcast Producer and Glimmer Project Founder: Dr Ashleigh Smith  Caroline Renshaw, Fiona Jordan, Courtney Amato and all our special guests for this season   Social media:  @glimmer_project @daydot_midwifery @brisbanegriefcounselling @rednosegriefandloss 

Samantha Payne (CEO and founder of Pink Elephants) engages Tahyna MacManus in a discussion about the grief of miscarriage, creating the documentary 'Misunderstandings of Miscarriage' and hopes for women in the future. The two professional women reflect on their own pregnancy loss' experiences and the need for letting go of shame and disenfranchised grief.   Links:  Websites:  https://www.pinkelephants.org.au/ https://www.mumdocumentary.com/ Instagram handles:  - glimmer_project  - pinkelephantssupport  - tahynamacmanus  Special thank you's to Samantha Payne for hosting this season of The Glimmer Podcast and Corey Green from transducer audio for editing and audio production.  https://www.transducer-audio.com/

A miscarriage doula is someone who provides knowledgeable guidance and support to people who experience pregnancy loss at any gestation in pregnancy. They provide emotional and mental support through grief coaching and are trauma-informed individuals. Samantha Payne (CEO and founder of Pink Elephants) engages Arden Cartrette in a heartfelt and compassionate discussion about the grief of miscarriage. The two women  have personal and professional experience working in the pregnancy loss space  and together they share wisdom and insights from their own journeys.  Links:  Websites:  https://www.pinkelephants.org.au/ https://themiscarriagedoula.co/ Instagram handles:  - themiscarriagedoula  - glimmer_project  - pinkelephantssupport  Special thank you's to Samantha Payne for hosting this season of The Glimmer Podcast and Corey Green from transducer audio for editing and audio production.  https://www.transducer-audio.com/

Sarah Roberts is a grief councilor, creator, teacher and healer. She is the founder of ‘The Empty Cradle’ which supports women who have lost the opportunity for motherhood. The Empty Cradle is a place where mourning, complexity, spirituality, hope, ambition and lifestyle collide.  Samantha Payne (CEO and founder of Pink Elephants) engages Sarah in an interview about the identity grief of involuntary childlessness, identity annihilation  and societal perceptions. Sarah is a wealth of knowledge both personally and professionally. She leaves the listener with hope for feeling whole and nurtured.  Important links:     WEBSITE -  www.theemptycradle.com  Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/involuntarychildlessness/  Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/theemptycradle/  LinkedIN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-roberts-9606b0b/  Special thank you's to Samantha Payne for hosting this season of The Glimmer Podcast and Corey Green from transducer audio for editing and audio production.  https://www.transducer-audio.com/ IG handle: glimmer_project   Host Samantha Payne linked in: https://au.linkedin.com/in/samanthapaynepesn

Fatima El-Assaad and Amanda Pain join Glimmer to share their experience of how their cultural and religious backgrounds have shaped their pregnancy and baby loss journey.  Links: https://www.theglimmerproject.com/  https://bluehearts.com.au/the-cause.html  https://stillbirthfoundation.org.au/ www.thestillnest.com   Special thank you to:  - Corey Green (podcast editor - Transducer Audio)  https://www.transducer-audio.com/ - Coby Grant (Winter Bear backing sound track) - Ashleigh Smith (Producer and creator of The Glimmer Project, Podcast and Online group)   Social media:  @glimmer_project @thestillnest.au  @bluehearts_au @stillbirthfoundation  

The online Glimmer program’s beloved specialist bereavement midwife and fellow warrior Mum Liana Quinlivan joins this episode of The Glimmer Podcast to talk about putting the jigsaw of your life back together after baby loss. Liana runs the online Glimmer Program groups and has been a midwife for 15 years. Caitlin Crowley interviews Liana in this heartfelt episode of the Glimmer podcast.     After Liana’s baby ‘Dot’ died due to a skeletal malformation disorder, she felt like everything in her life had being shattered. There was so much disbelief. Liana speaks of the irony of “being the bereavement midwife with the dead baby” and feeling the need to hide from that identity. She explains the mixture of pride, love and awe of Dot and the powerful connection she shared with her.  She talks about wanting to fast forward those early days and struggling to let go of Dot while tyring to maintain a connection.        Links: ·       https://www.theglimmerproject.com/  ·       https://bluehearts.com.au/the-cause.html  ·      https://stillbirthfoundation.org.au/     Social media: ·      @glimmer_project ·      @bluehearts_au ·      @stillbirthfoundation     Special thank you to:  - Corey Green (podcast editor - Transducer Audio)  https://www.transducer-audio.com/ - Coby Grant (Winter Bear backing sound track) - Ashleigh Smith (Producer and creator of The Glimmer Project, Podcast and Online group)

Rachel Whalen joins us in this episode of the Glimmer Podcast to discuss preeclampsia, stillbirth and maternal near-death experience in pregnancy. Caitlin Crowley interviews Rachel and asks her what it was like dealing with catastrophic grief while facing her own mortality.  Rachel is a preeclampsia loss mum and social media influencer who heads the Instagram @unexpectedfamilyouting. She is a writer, mother, griever and advocate. Rachel speaks about just wanting to go home and start the grieving process when Dorothy had died, however her medical condition was very serious.  There was a sense of ‘why hasn’t the world just stopped? Because my world has stopped. It’s standing still.’ Rachel shares her two prior miscarriages, her diagnosis of HELLP syndrome, preeclampsia and factor V Leiden mutation and the sense of needing to ‘keep going’ because she’d been through 3 pregnancies but still didn’t have a baby alive in her arms. She embarked on her rainbow pregnancy, constant monitoring and a sense of wanting to be empowered but not worried. She explains having a letter in the chart and setting the stage for how she wanted healthcare professionals to interact with her and discuss her past and current pregnancies.  Rachel explains mentally compartmentalizing during her rainbow appointment and focusing on the ‘right now.’ Caitlin expresses how hard it is to switch off the fear and try to ‘enjoy’ the moment and the rainbow pregnancy.   Rachel gives her 2 ultimate pieces of advice to the listener. She also explains how she answers people when they ask her how many children she has. Rachel explains about the relay race and ‘flying the flag’ for women who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss and severe pregnancy complications.      Links: https://www.theglimmerproject.com/  https://bluehearts.com.au/the-cause.html  https://stillbirthfoundation.org.au/     Special thank you to:  - Corey Green (podcast editor - Transducer Audio)  https://www.transducer-audio.com/ - Coby Grant (Winter Bear backing sound track) - Ashleigh Smith (Producer and creator of The Glimmer Project, Podcast and Online group)   Social media:  @glimmer_project @bluehearts_au @stillbirthfoundation @unexpectedfamilyouting

This episode of the Glimmer Podcast is all about returning to work after miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss or TFMR (termination for medical reasons). It gives helpful lived experience and advice to the listener on how to navigate interactions with colleagues, clients and everyone involved in the workplace. This episode also gives helpful advice to employers and we recommend this episode to every work place whose staff may experience this type of loss.  Our guest is Ann-Maree Imrie, a social worker trained in grief and bereavement. She is also the mother to her son, Xavier who was stillborn in 2015. She took five months leave from work after his loss and can attribute a huge part of her healing to the support she received from her workplace. Ann-Maree has developed her passion - 'The Baby Loss Project' - an online training program that upskills employers to create policy, and respond proactively to pregnancy loss, stillbirth and infant death. This episode references the startling findings from the ‘Price Waterhouse Cooper’ economic impact analysis on the cost of stillbirth to organisations through presenteeism, absenteeism and family breakdown. Anne-Maree Imrie shares about the ‘baby loss project’ and why it is so important. It aims to take all the fear out of the support people in trying to support the bereaved parent back to work and turning them into a ‘grief literate organization.’   Links: https://www.theglimmerproject.com  https://bluehearts.com.au/the-cause.html  https://stillbirthfoundation.org.au  https://www.babylossproject.com/   Special thank you to:  - Corey Green (podcast editor - Transducer Audio)  https://www.transducer-audio.com/ - Coby Grant (Winter Bear backing sound track) - Ashleigh Smith (Producer and creator of The Glimmer Project, Podcast and Online group)   Social media: @glimmer_project @bluehearts_au @stillbirthfoundation @mybabysvoice

Meagan Donaldson joins The Glimmer Podcast to talk about TFMR (termination of pregnancy for medical reasons), the importance of language and finding joy again after such heartache. Meagan is the author of ‘Still a Mum,’ which shines a spotlight on the stigma that still exists around pregnancy loss, TFMR and its impacts; not just for the parents but for other family members as well. Meagan Donaldson was 23 weeks pregnant when tests confirmed her unborn baby had a rare condition. Told the prognosis for their daughter was poor, they made a heartbreaking decision to say goodbye to their little girl. Soon after, Violet Grace was born. Still, but perfect. Meagan and Caitlin discuss the struggle of dealing with the busy practical side of babyloss and utilising writing to remember their babies. In relation to TFMR, Meagan has women writing to her saying they feel so much shame about the termination aspect of their baby loss so much so, they haven’t explained the TFMR to their families and carry the pain so privately. Meagan explains that the term ‘termination’ feels like it takes all the love out of Violet’s story and she felt this term didn’t appropriately describe the extremely difficult journey of saying goodbye to Violet Grace. She knows the choice of TFMR isn’t actually a choice and that it is made purely out of love. Meagan felt discomfort also with the word ‘died’ and preferred ‘loss’ while Caitlin feels differently.  Meagan shares about celebrating Violet’s birthday through creating cakes, donating gifts in her name and referring to her whenever asked how many children they have. She explains she has ‘muted’ certain people on social media and feels sadness when seeing babies similar aged to Violet posted on social media. Meagan used social media instead to immerse herself in a different type of community – those who have lost babies. Meagan’s psychologist told her to treat herself as she would a good friend in an effort to minimize the pressure on herself Meagan explains a need to make meaning out of this situation and try to help others going through a similar situation in the future. She created the fundraiser ‘Violet’s Gift’ which supports grieving parents after delivering a stillborn baby. Finally, Meagan explains how joy and light slowly returned to her life and that she worked hard to seek it out and actively move forward. Brunch, books, beach, looking at flowers, going for walks with her dogs, reading about resilience, random acts of kindness, meditation, seeing her psychologist, support groups and doing things to stay connected with Violet. It was hard work recovering from this immense trauma and has required a dedication that she feels has ‘felt like a fulltime job.’ At times it was too much and so at times she needed to give herself permission to just cry on the couch and ride the ‘grief hangover.’ Ultimately, what Meagan really needed to do, was to give herself some time.   Links: https://www.theglimmerproject.com/ https://bluehearts.com.au/the-cause.html https://stillbirthfoundation.org.au/   Booktopia link for ‘Still A mum’ link here. Website:https://meagandonaldson.com.au/ You may also like to refer back to another Glimmer Podcast interview relating to TFMR with Anabel Bower, author of Miles Apart : Season 1, episode 4 Special thank you to: - Corey Green (podcast editor - Transducer Audio)  https://www.transducer-audio.com/ - Coby Grant (Winter Bear backing sound track) - Ashleigh Smith (Producer) 

Edwina Symonds is a red nose volunteer support line worker whose son Sebby passed away due to a rare genetic disorder. She uses writing to help grieve and also to help those around her to understand the impact child loss creates. Caitlin Crowley interviews Edwina on her work as a volunteer for the Red Nose support line. Edwina explains that working at Red Nose feels like a legacy for Sebby and her contribution through that work is his gift to the world. Edwina reassures the listener to call the 'Red Nose Crisis line' – even if you are the father-in-law, there is no grief too distant or too ‘small.’ Edwina encourages people to just listen to grieving families and that there is literally nothing that you can do to help, just listen. She explains how often some of the people closest to us are the people that hurt us the most. Edwina advises in that situation to 'please come back to your child, come back to the love,’ and don’t spend your time or energy on that hurt from others. Be a lioness and protect yourself and say ‘no, I am not going to that event to spend time with that hurtful person.’ It is all just ‘fuzz.’ Edwina offers suggestions for friends or family trying to ‘pull grieving people up and out of the well’ and ideal ‘tones’ to use in their texts or phone calls suggesting activities. She explains what helped her through those first most painful, ravages of grief. Edwina talks about organ donation and the pivotal role registering with the online organ donation registry plays. Please find the website link below. It takes less then 60 seconds to register and can save lives.  The episode wraps with an acknowledgement of the painful journey bereaved parents walk and how time influences that path.  Links: https://www.theglimmerproject.com/ https://bluehearts.com.au/the-cause.html https://stillbirthfoundation.org.au/   https://www.thegriefyway.com/ https://rednose.org.au/page/grief-and-loss-support-services https://www.donatelife.gov.au/register-donor-today https://feelthemagic.org.au/?gclid=CjwKCAiAx8KQBhAGEiwAD3EiP1uoFvJpH3A_0wClUwkYq11msBjmR3zZdL2XmiBA9_-aeV2LRz8qLBoCa8UQAvD_BwE   Special thank you to: - Corey Green (podcast editor - Transducer Audio)  https://www.transducer-audio.com/ - Coby Grant (Winter Bear backing sound track) - Ashleigh Smith (Producer and creator of The Glimmer Project, Podcast and Online group)   Social media: @glimmer_project @bluehearts_au @stillbirthfoundation