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
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