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182: When Your Perspective Changes With Jen Burgard

182: When Your Perspective Changes With Jen Burgard

Welcome to another episode of the Grieving Moms Podcast. In today’s episode, we are joined by Jen Burgard.

We talked about Jen Burgard's story and how she came to know about grief. Jen opened up and shared her first grief experience in her younger years. The grief she had experienced in the year 2017 when she was pregnant with her second child. Tune in, as she shares her experience on the day her water broke and was suddenly rushed to have an emergency C-section and the aftermath of that event. 

Jen shared how she sees the world differently, and how she can now appreciate the little things and what matters most in our lives. 

We talked more about:

  • How she did do all the right things during her pregnancy

  • Going from one typical mom to deciding when to end her child’s life support

  • How she felt and her family’s experience during the 13 hours that baby Henry lived

  • The feeling of everyday guilt she experienced, the never-ending thought of what could she possibly do to protect her child

  • How she struggled with worrying about the safety of her children after the incident

  • The process of knowing she was not alone and the connection she started with others

  • How she found her first flicker of Hope

  • How Jen’s support system changed her healing experience

  • How her encounter with loss and death changed her perspective on life

  • The moving-on process they had when they decided to grow their family and have another baby after Henry

  • What Jen had learned from going through this experience

  • Jen also shared how she founded Haven and what they do as an organization since late 2017 

  • Jen’s advice to someone who is struggling and feels alone in their pain.

If you want to connect and follow along with Jen, here are a few places you can do that!

IG - @haven_midwest

FB - @havenmidwest

Website - www.havenmidwest.org

Podcast - www.havenmidwest.org/podcast or wherever you get your content!

 

Books mentioned in the podcast episode:

Bearing the Unbearable by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

Are you ready to stop cycling in the pain and anguish of grief? What if you could get a moment of calm and respite? After your child dies, everything feels hopeless and dark, and it’s hard to even think straight. Staying in survival mode keeps the cycle going.

Register to watch this free video on how to stop the pain, and feel better again.


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