Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 10:30 am PDT/12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Who: Bereaved Parents
Facilitator: Holly Ann Abel
In this 90-minute, interactive workshop, bereaved parents will be guided through the process of writing a heartfelt letter to themselves—acknowledging their grief, honoring their strength, and offering words of love and kindness. Often, in the aftermath of loss, we forget to care for ourselves as we navigate the intense emotions that come with grief. This session is designed to help participants release guilt, embrace self-compassion, and recognize the growth in themselves during their healing journey. Gentle prompts will guide the writing process, and participants are welcome to share their letters if it feels right for them, fostering a sense of support and community.
Workshop Objectives:
Create a compassionate space for parents to acknowledge and honor their own emotional journey.
Guide participants in writing a letter to themselves, fostering self-love, forgiveness, and acceptance.
Encourage letting go of guilt and embracing self-compassion as part of the healing process.
Provide gentle prompts that help participants reflect on their strength and growth after loss.
Foster connection and mutual support through optional sharing and listening among participants.
This workshop seeks to empower parents to nurture and honor themselves as they continue to heal, helping them step into a new version of themselves with love and acceptance.
Cost: Free
Appreciated Donation: $10.00
Choose the "Pay what you Want Amount" at registration to customize your donation amount.
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The journey of love, loss and life after loss looks different for everyone. Return to Zero: HOPE will be hosting a workshop series designed to provide supportive spaces for the diversity of our lived realities that come with our individual pregnancy and infant loss experiences. Our hope is to provide helpful resources and tools that encourage holistic healing. These workshops will uniquely support parents and providers through a trauma informed, resilience-focused, somatic approach.
These workshops will be interactive. There will be time to share, time to write and reflect, and in some sessions opportunity more movement. Please have available a water bottle, paper and pencil, and a quiet space.
Consider joining a workshop if:
-It is true to your lived experience
-You want to better understand a topic to support loved ones
-It piques your interest
-It feels like it might be supportive to where you are on your journey.All are welcome.
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Holly Ann is passionate about helping others find hope and joy within their grief journey after she lost her daughter, Magnolia, who was stillborn, and experienced a miscarriage of her “Poppy Seed.” A former first grade teacher, Holly Ann realized the importance of not only telling her own story of love and loss, but honoring other babies gone too soon, which led to her writing a children’s book and starting a nonprofit. She lives in Oskaloosa, KS with her husband and daughter, Marigold, where she is a family photographer.