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A journey with child loss

Ideas on surviving, healing, and moving forward - and building a new connection to your child.

This site is from a parent’s perspective, but hopefully it will also support grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers, and everyone who loves a lost child.

Our inspiration and motivation to keep going is coming from our baby, so I named this site as messages from her - ‘love, tepley.’

 
Blog posts
Healing
Adding More Healing After Child Loss
Healing

After the first few months of losing your child, there’s still more to add to continue to heal and to move forward.

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Healing
Healing, In Loss
To Medicate or Not to Medicate After Child Loss
Healing, In Loss

Medicating for the months after child loss is a question that many encounter.

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Healing, In Loss
Prayer Ties and Grief: Weekly Non-Denominational Healing

Prayer ties are a weekly ritual we added to our grief healing to sit together and offer up intentions, prayers, and thank you’s.

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Healing, In Loss, Moving Forward
Grief Retreat: What I Took Away from Golden Willow About Child Loss
Healing, In Loss, Moving Forward

Golden Willow describes itself as a sanctuary for loss, transition, and recovery. For us, the experience allowed us time away from our day-to-day to grieve and gave us strategies to process and to move forward together.

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Healing, In Loss, Moving Forward
 
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Seven phases of grief in child loss

Originally distributed as “five stages,” a new description of these phases helped us understand both what we were going through - and ways to find the light at the end of the tunnel.

Read about our seven phases here