EP80: Navigating Pregnancy Again After a Loss with Lindsey Henke

Trigger Warning! This episode discusses loss. If it is not supportive to your journey please skip this episode and join us next week.

For those experiencing pregnancy after loss of a previous pregnancy, it can be a challenge to find the specific support you need. The experience is surely tumultuous, to say the least, and things like peer support groups can provide comfort and strategies for getting through the hard times.

However, sharing about pregnancy loss might not be well-received in a more general pregnancy support group and the grief-centered groups might not be the best place to talk about a new pregnancy.

This is where Pregnancy After Loss Support, or PALS, comes in.

In this week's episode of the FU Project podcast, I talk to Lindsey Henke, a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist specializing in perinatal loss and the pregnancy that follows.

Lindsey founded Pregnancy After Loss Support (PALS), a national non-profit for moms pregnant after a previous pregnancy loss. Her writing has been featured in TODAY Show, UpWorthy, Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine, Scary Mommy, and the New York Times. She also was shortlisted in 2016 in the UK-based Butterfly Awards for International Author and Blogger and has been featured in three literary performances called Listen to Your Mother in the cast of 2015, 2019 and 2021.

When not immersed in her work of supporting grieving mothers, she can be found with her nose in a book or getting lost in the forest with her two living children, husband and favorite furry friend, her shih-tzu, Georgie.

Listen as Lindsey and I explore this topic of navigating pregnancy after loss and the work she is doing in supporting perinatal and infant loss parents.

The topic may be triggering for some, but the conversation is inspiring and educational.

What You'll Learn

• About PALS (Pregnancy After Loss Support), their mission, and who they serve
• The personal experience that led Lindsey to founding PAL
• How to support someone during a pregnancy after a loss
• The PAL app features, functionality, and resources it provides
• Examples of strategies such as distress tolerance and emotional regulation and specific tools that support them
• Reframing guilt after a loss

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