**UPDATE: Thank you so much for all of your beautiful and deeply thought-out responses. Over thirty women shared their hearts and their children’s stories with me, and for that, I can not say “thank you” enough. Thank you for trusting me to honour their memories and in the process, hopefully encourage other grieving mothers. The form is now CLOSED to responses but I would still love to hear your stories. Feel free to e-mail me or send me a message if you would like to share your own story of loss, grief, and hope on mommymannegren.com**
Hi everyone!
I’m looking for some help from my grieving mama followers!
Over the past eight months or so, I have been working on a book that I’ve tentatively titled, “Journaling Your Way Through Pregnancy Loss.” The goal of the book is to help encourage grieving mothers to embrace and better process their grief after a miscarriage or stillbirth. As you know, society doesn’t often talk about pregnancy loss, and it can be a confusing and isolating experience for women to go through. I’m hoping that this book will help break some of those taboos and allow women to find freedom and beauty in the story that they’ve been given – even when that story doesn’t exactly look the way we’d like it to. And ultimately, I hope that this book will point our grieving hearts towards Christ and remind us that while we mourn, we do not mourn without purpose.
In order to make this book stronger, I am in the process of revising my first draft. One of the things that has been suggested is to find some additional stories and insights from other grieving women, and add them to the book too. Here’s where I need your help!
If you’re interested in sharing your story with me, I have created an interview questionnaire for you to complete. Any of the answers that you give may be used as examples within the book, but most likely I will choose one or two of your answers to include. I may edit or re-write them slightly to fit the book. You can also let me know whether you want your answers to be anonymous (I’ll pick a random pseudonym) or whether you want me to use your first name when sharing your story.
I know that these stories are very personal and close to our hearts. Please don’t feel any pressure to participate in this. This is YOUR story and I don’t ever want to share a part of it unless you’re completely 100% comfortable with it. If you prefer to simply answer more generally – that’s fine too – any additional insight I can get into pregnancy loss would be a huge help!
It is a rather long, written questionnaire, but please don’t feel that you have to answer every question (not every question will be applicable.) I really appreciate your honesty as I know that some of these questions may be very difficult to answer. I’m hoping that this generation of women will be ones who stand up for the brokenhearted, and support the generation of grieving mothers who come after us. This book is just one step in creating that conversation and I hope you can partner with me in that.
Feel free to take a look over the questionnaire and complete it as you wish, here: http://bit.ly/2hlUI3Z
There is no guarantee that this book will be published, but I am working on making it as strong as I possibly can in hopes of helping create honest dialogue and discussion surrounding pregnancy loss.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me. Thank you so much for considering this!
Much love,
Liz
Hi Liz, my story is on my blog @ bethcreek.com. Look under the My Journey tab. I share my experience of 5 miscarriages. ♡
Thank you so much! I will check it out! So sorry for your loss but so thankful that you’re willing to share your story and experiences to help encourage other grieving families. ?
Hi there! I know this was posted over a month ago, but I was just checking to see if there was an end date to this? Or if you were still taking questionerres.
Love this idea, and your blog!!! 🙂
Yes! Still taking questionnaires! I’ll probably keep this open for another month or so (end of October) so that I can include as many stories as possible!
Oh wonderful!!! I’ll fill it out tonight! 🙂
Thank you so much!!! I really appreciate that and feel so honoured to be able to include your story. ?
Hi! I just discovered your blog through your guest writer contribution to another blog, and I’m honestly glad I did. I appreciate this idea, and would like to fill out your questionnaire as well. If you do move forward with publishing your book, I will definitely support. Books on such a topic are necessary, but scarce.
Hi Brittney, yes I would love to have you fill out the questionnaire! I too have found a gap in books on this topic and am so grateful for your support. Thank you so much for being willing to share your story. ?