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Travel After Child Loss: Navigating Vacations with a Broken Heart
Navigating summer vacations after child loss can bring a wave of grief, guilt, and unexpected emotions. In this blog, we explore how to travel with a broken heart, honor your child’s memory, and still allow space for healing. Whether it’s your first trip after loss or one of many, discover gentle tips for grieving while on holiday, coping with emotional triggers, and finding small moments of peace during summer travel.
Lisa K. Boehm
7 hours ago3 min read


How to Survive the First 6 Months After Child Loss
Survive the first 6 months after child loss with gentle grief support, routines, and healing tips.
Lisa K. Boehm
Aug 123 min read


Dreams After Child Loss: What They Mean & How to Have More
Have you ever dreamed of your child after loss and wondered if it was real? This post explores visitation dreams, a powerful way grieving mothers may feel spiritually connected to their children. Learn what grief dreams are, why they matter, and how to invite this comforting experience. Whether you’ve had a dream or are still waiting, you’ll find hope, healing, and validation here.
Lisa K. Boehm
Jul 293 min read


Can Your Marriage Survive Child Loss? The Essential Guide for Grieving Moms
Losing a child can shake even the strongest marriages—but that doesn’t mean your relationship is doomed. Despite what many believe, most marriages do not end after child loss. The truth is, grief impacts everyone differently, and with open communication, empathy, and patience, couples can not only survive but grow stronger together. If you’ve ever worried about your marriage after loss, this blog offers hope, honesty, and support.
Lisa K. Boehm
Jul 223 min read


Grief & Joy: Is it OK to feel joy after Child Loss?
Is it OK to feel joy after losing a child? For many grieving moms, guilt makes joy feel impossible. But grief and joy can coexist. In this heartfelt post, discover how to gently invite joy back into your life without guilt. Learn 5 compassionate strategies to honor your child while embracing healing, hope, and small moments of happiness after loss. A must-read for anyone navigating grief after child loss.
Lisa K. Boehm
Jul 83 min read


Child Loss and Grief Brain: 7 Ways to Gently Navigate It
If you’ve ever walked into a room and forgotten why, struggled to finish a sentence, or felt like your brain is moving through fog—you’re not alone. This is grief brain, and it’s a real and normal response to deep loss. In this post, I’m sharing 5 gentle, practical tips to help you navigate the mental fog that follows child loss, plus the science behind why it happens. You'll also learn 5 ways to deal with grief brain too.
Lisa K. Boehm
Jul 13 min read


Balancing Grief and Work After Child Loss: 7 Gentle Strategies
Returning to work after child loss is one of the hardest things a grieving mother can face. Grief brain can make it difficult to focus, remember tasks, or function like before. This blog offers seven gentle tips to help you cope at work, from grounding techniques to redefining productivity. If you're walking through this painful season, know you're not alone—and there are ways to support yourself with compassion as you navigate your return.
Lisa K. Boehm
Jun 173 min read


Grief & Child Loss: 7 Gentle Ways to Mark Your Child's Birthday
Honoring your child’s birthday after loss can feel overwhelming — but it can also be a sacred opportunity to connect, reflect, and celebrate their life. In this blog, I share 3 heartfelt ideas that have brought comfort to many grieving moms, including buying a birthday cake, releasing butterflies, and doing acts of kindness in their name. These rituals can bring meaning to a difficult day. Listen to the podcast for 4 more healing ideas.
Lisa K. Boehm
May 273 min read


Surviving Grief & Child Loss with This Approach
Discover 3 simple ways to honor your child’s life and legacy after loss. Celebrate their impact and find healing through meaningful actions.
Lisa K. Boehm
Jan 73 min read


New Year's Grief Tips for Bereaved Moms
Discover gentle tips for grieving moms on self-compassion, honouring memories, and finding moments of peace as well as unique resolutions.
Lisa K. Boehm
Dec 30, 20243 min read


5 Tips from a Bereaved Mom after Child Loss
Grieving mother Lisa K. Boehm describes the five things that have helped her most on her own grief journey. After the loss of a child...
Lisa K. Boehm
Nov 24, 20242 min read


7 Hidden Grief Struggles Every Bereaved Mom Faces
Learn how a grieving mother copes with the challenges of child loss by acknowledging emotions, staying connected, and honouring her child's
Lisa K. Boehm
Sep 28, 20243 min read


A Grieving Mother's Greatest Fear after Child Loss
The loss of a child is a life-altering event. Grieving mothers do everything in their power to ensure that the child is never forgotten...
Lisa K. Boehm
Sep 22, 20244 min read


7 Confessions of a Grieving Mother
There are very few people who understand the loss of a child. Sadly, anyone who has experienced the death of a child can relate to this blog
Lisa K. Boehm
Jul 9, 20243 min read


Our 'New Reality': Life after Child Loss
When your child dies, you have a new identity: grieving mother. This grief blog shares all the changes grieving moms face after child loss.
Lisa K. Boehm
Jan 31, 20244 min read


Child Loss: 40 Ideas to Mark Your Child's Death Anniversaries
After the loss of a child, the thought of facing their death anniversary is unimaginable. In this grief blog, I share the one thing that...
Lisa K. Boehm
Jan 12, 20242 min read


Child Loss, Grief & the Fears of a Grieving Mother
Healing after child loss can seem impossible to a grieving mother who often equates this idea as her leaving her child behind or forgetting
Lisa K. Boehm
Jun 10, 20233 min read


Grieving Moms & Child Loss: Feel Like You're Going Crazy?
It changes every aspect about you - physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and socially. This can leave grieving mothers feel as if
Lisa K. Boehm
May 16, 20233 min read


3 Ways to Find Grief Support after Child Loss
After my daughter died, I found my tribe in a strange place—a support group for grieving mothers, crazy, I know. After the loss of a child,
Lisa K. Boehm
Apr 16, 20233 min read


5 Ways for Grieving Mothers to Keep Going after Child Loss
A grieving mother will never 'move on' after the death of her child. She can, however, learn to live again by taking baby steps on her grief
Lisa K. Boehm
Mar 5, 20233 min read
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