In the aftermath of her miscarriages, doula Chloe Dierkes says there was no obvious place for her to turn for emotional support or to connect with others who had similar experiences.
“I figured, if there was, my midwives would have pointed me in the right direction,” she says. “But they didn’t, and I really didn’t have the resources at the time to go looking.”
So when the opportunity came to help some doula-colleagues bring a support program for people coping with the loss of a baby under one-month old, she took it.
“It was four years following my first miscarriage when I started facilitating this program, I thought I had healed,” said Dierkes. “But having made the space and the time to focus on the experience helped me heal in new ways.”
Now living on Bowen, Dierkes wants to facilitate another In Our Hearts group here.
She says it is open to absolutely anyone who has lost a child through termination, miscarriage, still birth and neonatal death.
Bowen Island Yoga has donated their space for these meetings. The first will take place on Wednesday February 8 at 7:30pm.
Registration is required (contact Chloe at [email protected]) and voluntary donations will be put towards operating costs.
This group is LGBTQ inclusive.
