My partner and I went through a devastating miscarriage two years ago and we've slowly built something beautiful from that experience — deeper intimacy, clearer priorities, a different kind of hope. But now that we're trying to conceive again, we're both terrified that new joy might somehow betray the growth we found in our loss, like we'd be abandoning the people that pain made us into.
More people experience this than they realize.
The very growth born from loss can create its own fear — that moving forward means losing the precious transformation that suffering brought.
“Where Are You with Post-traumatic growth — what can grow in the soil of loss?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.