Life After the Hardest Goodbye

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  11 I Opened TikTok And Found Loss and Joy 30.09.2026 15min

  Send us Fan Mail TikTok surprised me and not in the way I expected. I went looking for community around pregnancy and infant loss, and within a few minutes I felt the full swing of grief: proud of the vulnerability and advocacy I saw, then suddenly in tears, even though I started out hoping for something uplifting. That emotional whiplash is real. We talk about what’s helpful about online support groups and what’s hard about having limited control over what shows up on your screen. I’m encou...
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  10 There Is No Universal Way To Handle Baby Items 23.09.2026 11min

  Send us Fan Mail The quietest grief decisions are often the heaviest: what do you do with the diapers, the crib, the stroller, and the baby shower gifts when you come home without a baby? I’m Gina Gonzalez, and I’m opening up an honest conversation many of us get left to figure out alone, the emotional and practical reality of baby items after pregnancy loss. I walk through how my choices changed over time, from passing along wipes and samples before they expired, to wrestling with the unspo...
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  09 How Two Songs Helped Me Find Light Again 16.09.2026 17min

  Send us Fan Mail A song can be background noise for years, and then one day it becomes a mirror. I’m Gina Gonzalez, and I’m sharing how music opened a new awareness for me after the loss of our son, especially during seasons when life keeps moving but you feel like you’re only surviving. Sometimes the smallest details become a gateway back into the richness of living, and for me, that gateway was listening to lyrics I thought I already knew. We walk through two songs that landed with u...
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  08 We Stop Treating Our Pain Like A Problem To Fix 09.09.2026 53min

  Send us Fan Mail You can “keep going” and still be shattered inside. That’s the tension Shruti Tarebi names with heartbreaking clarity as she shares what it’s like to live through perinatal loss, return to work before you’re ready, and carry grief quietly while parenting your living children. Shruti is a former IT professional turned transformation coach, and she speaks as both a bereaved mother and a parent navigating everyday life after losing three babies, including identical twin boys los...
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  07 Secondary Losses Keep Grief Alive Longer 02.09.2026 23min

  Send us Fan Mail Grief after pregnancy or infant loss isn’t only about the day everything changed. It’s also the quiet, repeated losses that follow you into regular life: the milestones you never get to see, the identity shift that hits when you don’t have a living child to parent day to day, and the gut-punch reminders that show up on birthdays, holidays, and even back-to-school photo season. We take a deeper dive into secondary losses after perinatal loss and how they can complicate healin...
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  06 How To Respond When Someone Asks If You Have Kids After Losing A Baby 26.08.2026 10min

  Send us Fan Mail “Do you have children?” can be a casual question for most people, but after pregnancy or infant loss, it can hit like a wave. Today's episode makes space for the reality that these questions can impact us, and that many of us were never given advance notice of this potential emotional trigger. We can walk through how to decide what to say in the moment by looking at a few grounding factors: which question was asked, how long the interaction will last, and your emotional band...
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  05 You Can Grieve And Rebuild On The Same Day 19.08.2026 17min

  Send us Fan Mail I’m Gina Gonzalez, and I’m walking you through the dual process model of coping, a grief framework that finally put words to what my own journey after stillbirth has looked like over the years. We will discuss some specific examples of loss-oriented and restoration-oriented coping strategies. From memorial rituals like wind chimes, butterfly plants, and meaningful symbols to counseling, peer support, journaling, and creative mementos, we talk through loss-oriented stra...
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  04 Two Ways We Cope With Loss And How To Balance Them 12.08.2026 14min

  Send us Fan Mail Grief can feel heavy enough on its own, then life keeps demanding that you function like nothing happened. I’m Gina Gonzalez, and I’m introducing a practical grief framework to guide your healing journey: The Dual Process Model of Coping. According to this model, there are two modes of coping: loss-oriented coping and restoration-oriented coping. Loss-oriented coping is the part of grieving that leans into the emotional reality of the death. Whereas restoration-oriente...
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  03 Healthy Coping Starts With What You Can Control 05.08.2026 19min

  Send us Fan Mail Coming home without your baby can take your breath away, and sometimes the first thing you notice isn’t tears, it’s numbness. I talk through why that shutdown can be protective, what it might be telling you, and how self-care and self-compassion become essential parts of perinatal bereavement, whether your loss was recent or years ago. If you’ve ever wondered why you feel detached, overwhelmed, or like you’re just going through the motions, you’re not broken. You’re respondin...
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  02 Grief Does Not Follow A Straight Line 29.07.2026 15min

  Send us Fan Mail Grief after pregnancy loss or infant loss can feel like you’re carrying a life-altering truth in a world that wants you to stay quiet. We open with a clear, compassionate look at different kinds of perinatal loss, including miscarriage, stillbirth, termination for medical reasons, and neonatal deaths. We name something that hurts many families: comparison narratives that imply one loss should be “easier” than another. We hold firm to a simple truth here, every loss has ...
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  01 Introduction 22.07.2026 5min

  Send us Fan Mail We’re opening the door to honest, compassionate conversation about pregnancy loss, infant loss, and perinatal loss and what life can look like after the hardest goodbye. I’m Gina Gonzalez, and I’m coming to this work from multiple angles: my own experience with a stillbirth at 40 weeks and an early term miscarriage, plus my clinical background as a licensed mental health counselor with advanced training in perinatal loss and doctoral research on how loss impacts mental healt...
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  00 Teaser 18.07.2026 1min

  Send us Fan Mail Coming Soon!! If you have a topic you’d like me to cover on the podcast, or if you would like to share your creative coping strategies to help our listeners, I’d love to hear from you. Please contact me by: Email- [email protected] Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/moderncounselingsolutions Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/moderncounselingsolutions?utm_source=qr TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@gina.g.psyd These episodes are fueled by sunshine and plenty ...