Working with Infertility and Grief
Working with Infertility and Grief

Author: WHITNEY L. JARNAGIN

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2023-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781032367927

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Working with Infertility and Grief: A Practical Guide for Helping Professionals explores issues of grief, including disenfranchised grief and chronic sorrow, related to infertility and reproductive loss. Out of the small handful of books related to this topic, this is the first of its kind geared toward equipping helping professionals who assist those grieving unrecognized losses. Written through the lens of the literary framework of The Hero's Journey, this comprehensive practitioner guide directly targets mental health professionals working with clients, supervisees, or students who have experienced infertility, miscarriage, or death of an infant. This book is also for those who experienced it themselves. Readers will learn more about the crisis of infertility and reproductive loss, gain insight into the experience of those suffering, and acquire practical tools and strategies for helping and healing. This text is broad enough to be integrated into a course for a graduate program and specific enough to serve as a shelf reference for those in practice.

The Grief of Infertility
The Grief of Infertility

Author: Alan Wolfelt

Publisher: Companion Press

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1617222925

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When you want to have a baby but are struggling with fertility challenges, it's normal to experience a range and mixture of ever-changing feelings. These feelings are a natural and necessary form of grief. Whether you continue to hope to give birth or you've stopped pursuing pregnancy, this compassionate guide will help you affirm and express your feelings about infertility. Tips for both women and men are included.

Barren
Barren

Author: Rosa Miller

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2018-12-11

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1643492071

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"I had to walk along my journey to be able to share my testimony to someone whose story is still being written." (Rosa Miller) Rosa details a very personal and inspiring memoir through her and her husband's experience to grow in faith and family. If you are expecting perfection, you will not find it here. You will only find shades of yourself and tools to help. We were never meant to be perfect and faith is not belief without doubt. It is belief despite doubt, trial, failings, suffering, naysayers, and circumstances""life. And this is very much the story of life. We know these walls of reality. Faith is strengthened by the unchanging decision we make on a day-to-day basis to follow through. With grace, determination, and a very human nature, we see the journey of one little seed of faith as it faces the lifestyle that is infertility. We listen as it is tried and found wanting. Listen as it flexes and grows. Here is the hope you were looking for. The voice to give you support, in experience, story, scripture, and insight, to guide you on your path. The equivalent of the call in the wee hours to the friend who gets you. The solace to tie your sanity to. Some answers in the dark. You are never alone.

When You Are Coping with Infertility
When You Are Coping with Infertility

Author: Vera Snow

Publisher: Augsburg Books

Published:

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781451419429

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Offering biblical promises and prayers for comfort and strength, Snow guides readers through the often rocky terrain of infertility, encouraging them to recognize what they can and cannot control in their situations and suggesting ways to live with these challenges.

What to Expect When You're Experiencing Infertility
What to Expect When You're Experiencing Infertility

Author: Debby Peoples

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780393041040

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Written in a question-and-answer format, this sympathetic and practical book offers practical advice on how to contend with the emotional ups and downs of infertility--from learning how to communicate feelings more effectively to coping with the losses of failed treatments or miscarriages.

Grieving Reproductive Loss
Grieving Reproductive Loss

Author: Kathleen Gray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1351844121

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Grieving Reproductive Loss: The Healing Process acknowledges the devastating impact these losses can have. Written in ""plain language"", the book attempts to bring about a greater understanding of the grief associated with reproductive loss and, through the Healing Process Model[copyright], offers a holistic approach for constructive healthy grieving and healing of body, mind, and spirit.

Through, Not Around
Through, Not Around

Author: Allison McDonald Ace

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2019-01-26

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1459742974

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These stories, written by Canadians, paint a picture of what it's like to experience the emotional and physical facets of infertility, miscarriage, and pregnancy loss: the pain, sadness, desperation, hope, humour, frustration, and also the knowledge that while these issues are often out of our control, there is a way through them.

Under the Laurel Tree
Under the Laurel Tree

Author: Nicole M. Roccas

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-25

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781944967697

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Infertility ranks among the hardest griefs a couple can face. Yet this painful issue is all too often neglected in both Church and society. Under the Laurel Tree traces one God-fearing couple's journey through the emotional turmoil of childlessness. By following the story of Saints Joachim and Anna, this book helps individuals and couples navigate the loss inherent in infertility amid the pain of shame, separation, anger, bargaining, and blamelessness. In walking alongside Joachim and Anna, we encounter not only a life-giving template for grief, but also the path back to ourselves, our partner, and our God-given vocation of eucharistic thanksgiving.

Tears of Sorrow, Seeds of Hope
Tears of Sorrow, Seeds of Hope

Author: Nina Beth Cardin

Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1580230172

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A spiritual companion for those grieving infertility, pregnancy loss, or stillbirth, bringing solace from Jewish tradition.Many people who endure the emotional suffering of infertility, pregnancy loss, or stillbirth bear this sorrow alone. Pregnancies that end too early are hidden; failed attempts at conception are barely mentioned. Many women and men long to find solace in religious ritual and tradition to ease the emptiness felt from a loss that is without a face, a name, or a grave. At last, there is a source that acknowledges and encourages expressions of their grief, and offers comfort in the moments of their pain. Providing companionship and strength for healing from others who also have grieved, Tears of Sorrow, Seeds of Hope is a spiritual companion that enables the reader to mourn within the words and ways of Judaism. Drawing deeply on the wellspring of comfort found in traditional Jewish texts and prayer, it also offers readings and rituals created especially for parents struggling with the uncertainty and sorrow of pregnancy loss and infertility?providing a source of compassion, healing, and hope.