Chapter 2: Foundations of strength & connection
Welcome to chapter two.
This chapter builds gently on the foundations of Chapter One, beginning to develop early core awareness, soft balance work, and a growing sense of what your body is communicating. Alongside the movement sessions, you'll find a grounding exercise and guided meditation to support your emotional wellbeing, as well as a guide on what grief does to the body and practical guidance on exercising after loss.
Work through the content in whatever order feels right, and return to the exercises and practices from this chapter, or chapter 1, as often as you need. If hard emotions surface, that's completely normal, there is nothing here you need to push through.
Movement
Main Session 1
Focused Session 1
Main Session 2
Focused Session 2
Your Toolkit
Sometimes thoughts and feelings can arrive so fast and so intensely that it's hard to know where to start with dealing with them. Grounding techniques work by gently interrupting that overwhelm, anchoring your attention to the present moment before it pulls you under.
In this video, Anna guides you through the 5-4-3-2-1 technique, a grounding practice that uses your five senses to bring you back to the present when anxiety, grief, or overwhelm takes hold. Simple enough to use anywhere, effective enough to return to again and again.
This video is delivered by Dr Anna Galloway, Perinatal Clinical Psychologist. Anna specialises in supporting women through pregnancy loss, birth trauma, and the emotional complexity that follows.
This short guided meditation from Sarah, invites you to pause, breathe, and simply be with yourself for five minutes.
Stillness can be hard when you're grieving. If you can't get through it today, that's okay. Come back to it when you're ready.
Expert Insight
Grief isn’t a linear process and no two people will experience it in the same way or in the same timeframe. No matter how far along you were in your pregnancy you are allowed to grieve fully. This guide from Anna explores the different ways that grief can show up emotionally and physically, and where to go when it feels overwhelming.
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