Female Voices: Life and Loss

Alyse Dusseault is an Energy worker, Grief Coach, and psychic medium based in Nashville, TN . After losing her partner in 2020, she discovered a spiritual connection with him and her other loved ones in spirit, helping ease the horrible ache of grief. Now, she helps others reignite their connections with loved ones in spirit through 1 on 1 grief coaching; helping them move forward with them, inste...

There needs to be healing physically, emotionally, and spiritually on the grief journey. All areas of your life are affected by the loss of a loved one and it is so important to focus on all of them. Be gentle on yourself and work through each area at your own pace. Teresa shared how a few clients felt stuck in their grief and how they found an area to work on to move them forward on their grief j...

Shannon Dalton has been a registered nurse for eleven years. Her background is mostly in neonatal intensive care and has lots of experience with the pediatric population and that is where her passion is. Helping the next generation master their own health and well-being is what she came here to do. Shannon has grown tired of the current mainstream health model and decided to break the mold to prov...

Olga Mister shared her grief journey through the first year of the loss of her six and half year old son TJ and the beginning of year two . She said I remember walking out of the hospital and thinking I will see him tomorrow. Olga said numerous times that no one talks about your whole body going through a change and how exhausting grief is. Her pastor shared with her that she needed to heal emotio...

Kristen Probst proudly shares that she has three children, two girls on earth and a child in heaven. She is very open about sharing her miscarriage journey to help support other women and has even gone back to her doctor's office to share information she learned so others have a better miscarriage experience. Her doctor's office instructed her to go home and make herself comfortable and wh...

Patricia (Pat) Sheveland sees herself as a holistic healing guide for families. Helping them find healing of mind, body, and spirit from the impact of emotional trauma such as grief and abandonment. In 2012, Pat began the reinvention of her life to pursue her dream of being a life coach and was certified by the International Coaching Federation in 2015. She became certified as a Spring Forest Qigo...

I have taken off a couple of weeks which if you have been following me I’m sure you noticed. The last couple of weeks I have missed sharing with you. WOW that was harder than I thought it would be. I guess when you totally love what you do and your passion is to support and help others it's super hard to take time off. This month I have been reflecting, thinking and focusing on my life and foc...

In our world there are way to many stories of child loss and infertility. This podcast celebrates the strength of an extraordinary group of women. Welcome to all moms whether you feel or see yourself as resilient or not, let me reassure you that you are. Join me weekly as we meet these incredible moms who have endured the heartbreak of losing a child or the dream of never having a child. These exp...

Stacey Micklevitz shared about having two back to back traumatic miscarriages. The doctor referred to the first miscarriage as an atopic ectopic pregnancy. They could not find the fetus and were concerned it could have moved outside the reproductive system. She was given a round of chemo to kill the fast growing cells. She indicated that she went through the protocol, the emergency situation and d...

WOW! It is hard to believe that year three is coming to a close and year four is about to begin. I shared in this episode how I needed to honor myself on my own grief journey the last few weeks. I was navigating my grief while going through my mom's things to be distributed between myself, my twelve siblings and extended family members. There have been so many new learnings for me since my mom...

Aspen Wood remembers wanting to be a mom from a very young age. She was told as a teenager that it was unlikely that she would ever become pregnant due to scar tissue left from being sexually abused at a very young age. During her teenage years she was admitted to the hospital due to a suicide attempt and later went through a program to help her work through the sexual abuse trauma. Things you wil...

Carissa Hess and her husband discovered after not getting pregnant on their own, that they had both female and male infertility factors. Carissa's doctor told her that she had a greater chance of getting mauled by a bear, being struke by lightning, and winning the lottery all on the same day, then getting pregnant on their own. This was hard news to hear and with this news they did not follow...

Traci Daniels struggled with abnormal female cycles for years, bleeding for over one hundred days at times . She would take birth control and had several D&C's to help with the bleeding. After marrying, she took fertility drugs in hopes to become pregnant with no success. She wanted to be a mom. Her and her husband talked about adoption and surrogacy, they had agreed that they would only p...

It is so important to give yourself grace and space as you navigate both Bereaved Mother's Day and Mother's Day whether you have lost a child or lost your mom. As these days become closer, can you feel your emotional state changing? Is your mind wondering? Are you feeling some anxiety and maybe worried? It's your day to remember, celebrate and honor your child, your mother and most imp...

Terry Kitzmiller was told due to a birth defect she may not be able to carry a pregnancy to full term . After experiencing several traumatic miscarriages and almost losing her life, the decision was made to not try again. Terry became focused on her career. The miscarriages and the loss of never having children would surface in many ways for years. Until it surfaced, big time in a class. During th...

Betty Mertens is a speaker, author, and co-founder of the non-profit Ella's Umbrella. She is mother to three children. Her oldest daughter, Ella passed away at the age of one in 2017 due to an undiagnosed heart defect. After her tragedy, she and her husband Kyle realized that they had a unique ability to support others through grief. Since then, they have taken what they learned from their exp...

Betty Mertens is mother to three children. Her oldest daughter, Ella passed away at the age of one in 2017 due to an undiagnosed heart defect. As you can only imagine this experience changed the course of their lives completely. After being told that this type of tragedy rips marriages apart. Betty said, "I hope our daughter's legacy doesn't rip us apart so we are going to figure this...

David and Victoria talked and planned to have a family.  Less than a year after they were married, Victoria started to have some weird illnesses. After lots of tests they found that it was all related to a weak heart valve that she was born with. She went through antibiotic therapy for the infections and thought she was in the clear. Open heart surgery was performed in November 2020. They were the...

Jenn Cobbel and her husband , a US Navy Seabees, struggled with secondary infertility. They had testing done which found nothing and three rounds of clomid. The military coverage of infertility treatment is very limited. After trying for 6 years, they decided to get rid of all the baby things, after saving them for 11 years. Jenn had decided to start focusing on herself. She was ready to go in for...

Nick and Sabrina Kohlberg were told at their 20-week anatomy scan that their daughter Collins had anencephaly. This condition is not compatible with life. They were given a couple weeks to decide whether to terminate the pregnancy or continue with the expectation that she could pass at any time. They were told if she made it to delivery, she could live a few minutes or a few hours. Sabrina said, &...

Natalie Fallert was very aware that couples can struggle with infertility. Multiple women on her husband’s side had infertility problems. She wasn't sure if they should look into it right away after marriage or wait as planned. After a year they began the journey with testing first. They would find a problem … We would fix it … They would find something else … We would fix that. This seemed to go...

After having two healthy boys, Tammy’s third pregnancy ended in a loss at 12 weeks . This loss was followed by another pregnancy where she delivered her third healthy boy. When Tammy became pregnant again she was sure this was her little girl. Being so sure she scheduled her ultrasound on Valentines Day. On that day she was told that her baby boy had Down Syndrome and had no heartbeat . Tammy Shar...

Lindsay Gustin endured a lot of unworthiness during her journey to become a mom. She struggled with infertility for several years and received little to no support from doctors. The doctors seemed to blame all her infertility on her weight. She felt like because she was a bigger woman, she wasn't good enough to be a mom. After several years of work to lower her BMI with no success … she began to d...

Self-Love can be hard to do when our body is not doing what it is meant to do and we are grieving a baby … grieving the dream of a family. Teresa shared some helpful tips for self-love and self-care. · Rejuvenating our body with sleep is so important. Having a good bedtime routine: no blue light for 30-60 minutes before bed, hot bath, essential oils, herbal tea, journaling, meditation, listening t...

Katie Dewhurst is a certified functional medicine health coach and founder of the health and wellness company Hello Balance . She’s passionate about teaching women how they can optimize their health for fertility and pregnancy through food and lifestyle. She created the Hello Baby Prenatal Nutrition Course that teaches women exactly how to optimize their nutrition for pregnancy. As you listen to t...