Baby loss can impact so many aspects of your life, relationships being one of them, so what do you do and how do you cope?
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Dealing with grief can be an incredibly difficult and challenging experience. It can be hard to process the emotions and feelings that come with the loss of a loved one or a significant change in one's life. Mindfulness and journaling can be powerful tools to help navigate through the grieving process.
Mindfulness is the practice of being present in the moment, aware of one's thoughts, feelings, and surroundings without judgment. It can be a useful tool to help manage the overwhelming emotions that come with grief. When we are mindful, we can observe our thoughts and feelings without becoming overwhelmed by them.
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Yes, meditation can be a helpful tool for coping with grief. Grief is a complex and individual process, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution for everyone. However, meditation can be a useful practice to help manage the difficult emotions and thoughts that often come with grief.
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The experience of losing a baby is one of the most devastating things that any parent can go through. The grief and pain can be overwhelming, and it can be difficult to know how to cope with such a profound loss. In these difficult times, mindfulness can be a powerful tool to help parents manage their emotions and find some peace.
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Living after loss is hard!
Words by Lucy ' When my baby died in the days that followed, I remember feeling numb, in my mind I knew it would take time to pick myself up but I felt broken.
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We know from our research that connecting with others who know what it's like to experience loss in this way, is so helpful after loss.
So we are redeveloping our app to offer more support so we can help just a little bit to ease some of this suffering.
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The Ellie's gift app is a free baby loss support app to help support people during and following baby loss.
We have a new community space coming soon where parents can connect with others parents no matter what time of day in a safe and confidential space.
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Words by Lucy Livesey - Founder of Relax With Lucy & Co and Ellie’s mum.
When we lost ellie, I remember our grief felt unbearable, Ellie died when the Manchester Arena bombing had happened and there was so much sadness around us ontop of what had just happened. Our baby Ellie passed away at under 24 weeks, following her passing it was a hard time. Some days the physical and emotional pain felt too hard to carry, but we did, because we had to figure out how to move forward. Read on to find out what helped us.
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The Ellie's gift app is an app that was developed to help support families experiencing baby loss before, during and following birth 😔
Our story with the app began when we launched our prototype app in 2020 and since this time we have been working hard laying the foundations down to take our app to the next level of support. We are proud to say that we now have support from the NHS and in addition to this have been awarded more funding to take our app through phase one of our redevelopment stage.
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New Year & New Project Launch
The Ellie’s Gift Project has been set up to help support the baby loss community through the provision of wellbeing interventions. This year we are proud to move forward with the support from the NHS and have been awarded further funding to develop the apps capabilities and support
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