Guys & Grief

​Father's Day is coming up on Sunday June 18th, 2017. To all the bereaved fathers, we're thinking of you.

In advance of that, we wanted to share with you a recent article written by the Love & Loss Project about "Guys and Grief" - the Love & Loss Project shares 3 tips for supporting bereaved fathers.

To come up with these 3 tips, the Love & Loss Project interviewed Mr. Kelly Farley, author of Grieving Dads: to the Brink and Back. After experiencing 2 of his own losses through miscarriage, Kelly interviewed almost 1,000 other bereaved fathers to better understand the male experience of grief.

"I often talk about the invisibility surrounding women’s experience of  losing a baby.  However, I believe this invisibility is even more extreme for fathers.  Their experience of grief within their social circles is often reduced down to the role of the supporter for their partner, where often the discussion with friends and family focuses on the female partner, 'how she is doing' and encouraging him to 'take care of her'."

read more here

Thank you to the Love & Loss Project and Grieving Dads for raising awareness about pregnancy and infant loss, and not forgetting about the male experience.