The Lotus Gathering honors and wanted to be apart of the call to action to raise awareness in October about Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Pregnancy and Infant loss is a situation that sadly a lot of women go through, silently. The Lotus Gathering is a space where not only are you safe but you are not alone. Sis, we are sending you the warmest embrace right now and we are here for you.
You are not alone.
1 in 4 woman will experience pregnancy or infant loss in their lifetime.
Find your community
This is a sensitive topic and we thought it best to approach it in a way that relieves any and all shame from the topic. We created a group in The Gathering Space for women to connect that have suffered and are suffering from a pregnancy or infant loss. Please follow the link here to join. If you need to cry, scream, or #justbe around a sister who knows exactly what you are going through, this is the place for you.
Leaning into Grief
That's why the loss of a baby is felt so deep in your core because grief transposes the fabric of your being.
Grief. A scary word. A even scarier emotion. Grief is unpredictable, lonely, traumatizing, and raw. That's why it's an easy emotion to automatically want to suppress and move pass whenever a tragic or unfortunate event happens in your life.
When experiencing the pain of miscarriage, pregnancy and infant loss, you feel that grief on a cellular level, it's chemical, it's hormonal. It's deep. From the moment, a woman finds out she is pregnant whether wanted or unwanted, you feel something, that indescribable feeling that your life is about to change. You can't escape it. That's why the loss of a baby is felt so deep in your core because grief transposes the fabric of your being. And, that's exactly why we recommend you lean in to grief from the start because it is a remedy to foster healing in the future.
Cultivate the courage to heal
Lean in to the hurt. Lean in to those intense feelings because to avoid them is a betrayal of your healing process. The guttural cries. The deep sorrow is all apart of the grieving process. To understand and accept that you experienced a real, visceral, tangible loss that meant something to you. Even if no one knew about your pregnancy yet or you had just posted on social media that you were expecting. That real feeling of loss is not to be disregarded but meant to lean into; so that you can learn how to edify yourself in the future. To lean in enough so that overtime, you develop the strength and courage to keep going, to uplift and will yourself to heal, it starts with leaning in.
We want to extend open arms and a warm embrace to any woman navigating these waters right now, those in the future, and whomever is still learning to cope from their past.
We see you. We know you. We understand you. The Gathering Space is open for you to join to continue this conversation and to find and create your community of sisters to help you through. Join here to gather and just be.
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