Coping with Miscarriage: Making Sense of Your Feelings and Moving Forward

Combining the authors’ professional experience as clinical psychologists with their personal experience of pregnancy loss, this book is a compassionate guide for anyone navigating the experience and aftermath of miscarriage. The nature of the experience of miscarriage and the associated losses lead to unique forms of trauma and grief, which are often not well understood.Chapters explore psychologically informed explanations of emotional experience then provide actionable strategies for supporting wellbeing, with topics covered including, but not limited to:Trauma and grief, and emotions that may emerge after miscarriageRelationship patterns while navigating lossFinding the words to have conversations about miscarriageNavigating healthcare systemsChoosing to try to get pregnant again, and choosing to stop tryingExperiencing pregnancy after miscarriageMiscarriage is not a single event, but a series of moments and encounters and experiences, some of them happening long after the pregnancy