“This book is a wonderful resource for couples and families facing the loss of a child. It is full of excellent advice for friends and families of the bereaved. Recommend highly.”
– Tara Shafer – Co-founder, Reconceiving Loss
“Grieving Parents takes the important step of normalizing grief and is filled with personal insights of bereaved parents who have experienced what so many of us have after our losses. It is practical yet intimate, and can help you navigate your journey through grief to healing.”
– Sean Hanish and Kiley Krekorian Hanish – Return to Zero
“This is more than a critical resource to assist grieving parents, this book is for each and every one of us; friends, family and colleagues to learn how we as a community can support, grow and evolve through our grief”.
– Michelle Duval – Professional Coach, Author and Researcher
“Though every individual’s experience with grief is very personal, a person’s grieving journey is influenced by and has direct effects on his or her relationship with others. This book reinforces that fact and encourages bereaved couples to find ways to support each other while holding sacred each unique path of healing.”
– Carrie Fisher-Pascual – The STILL Project
“This book is a valuable healing tool filled with personal insights of parents who have experienced profound grief and emerged to find real heart-healing as a couple and as individuals.”
– Rachel Tenpenny Crawford – Teamotions
“As a reproductive loss counsellor, birth and bereavement doula and an interfaith palliative care chaplain, I have read many, many books about reproductive loss and parental bereavement. This one sets a new standard in bereavement care literature by artfully providing the tender insights, intellectual skills and grief and bereavement resources to cultivate the compassion to provide support to the grieving parent.”
– Rev Liz Lotscher – Interfaith Palliative Care Chaplain
“This book can show you a roadmap through grief, filled with personal insights of parents who have experienced what you have and how they have emerged and embraced their healing. The 5 steps to survive as a couple are especially helpful and hopeful.”
– Sherokee Ilse – International Bereavement Educator/Speaker and Author of Couple Communication After a Baby Dies
“Losing a baby is often so intangible, like a bad dream. This book lets you know: your feelings are normal and you are not going crazy. A valuable tool in finding peace again.”
– Monique Caissie – Family Life Educator, Grief Support Group for Women
“Grief will be on our journey sooner or later. Every person should know about grief and how to deal with the grieving. This book sheds light into the darkness of the grieving journey for a personal and professional point of view.”
– Rebecca Bustamante – Familylab Coach
“Powerful, heartfelt and practical advice from someone who’s been there. If you’re looking for the ultimate couples’ guide through the bumpy road of grief, look no further. A must-read for bereaved parents everywhere.”
– Angela Miller – Author of You Are the Mother of All Mothers
“Grief and loss of a child can be the silent nail in the coffin of any relationship if not dealt with in a loving, practical way. Nathalie opens the doors wide open for couples to navigate this heart-wrenching time with practical and compassionate tips, told candidly and honestly, from one who has lived it. This book is the essential guide for health care professionals, parents and their carers.”
– Janet McGeever – Speaker, Relationships Educator and Counsellor
“Finally there is a book that not only delicately finds you wherever you are on your personal journey with grief but also manages to simplify the often complicated and avoided subjects of child loss. Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple is not just a helpful resource but also a raw and tragically honest representation of how to manage life after your baby is gone.”
– Paul De Leon – Contributing Writer, Still Standing Magazine
“This is indeed the book I would have liked to have in my hands after our 8 month old Ingrid passed away. It’s so wise and loving, filled with both practical and emotional advice. I will definitely be giving this away as a gift to the bereaved parents I meet daily in my work as a grief recovery specialist.”
– Karin Andersson Hagelin – Grief Recovery Specialist & EFT Tapping Practitioner
“Knowing that women and men grieve very uniquely and individually, finding resources that specifically address grieving loss together as a couple are few and far between. Nathalie’s book offers the insight as could only be garnered from real-life couples and is an invaluable compilation. The book offers hope for couples to not only weather the intense emotions, but also deal with the ‘new normal’ that they will face together.”
– Lori Mullins Ennis – Editor of Still Standing Magazine
“A powerful & heartfelt guide for anyone rebuilding their life after grief and loss.”
– Emily J Rooney – Founder, Suddenly Homeless: The Journey Home Project
“In her book Nathalie combines her willingness to share the pain of her most vulnerable moments within insightful and practical steps you the grieving parent/partner can take. She beautifully exemplifies that each of us has a unique journey to undertake emotionally, physically and spiritually and leads us to understand that while often natural, responses such as judgement, expectation, ‘mind-talk’ and frustration for yourself and others can affect your healing path.”
– Brandon Bays – Internationally Best-Selling Author of The Journey® and The Journey for Kids®
“This book finally shines the spotlight on the most crucial aspect of grief recovery – that of keeping our most valuable relationships, not just intact, but healthy after the loss of a child. By opening up the conversation of surviving as a couple Nathalie has given hope to all couples as they find themselves in this most undesirable circumstance. The blend of personal reflections of couples who have weathered this storm alongside her insight and research as a therapist make this a useable tool for couples to heal.”
– Paula Stephens – M.A., Founder, Crazy Good Grief, Self-Care Through Loss
“This book speaks truthfully about the loss of a child, and parents’ grief, giving hope for moving through grief and finding a new way of being in a practical and powerful way. A must-read for every grieving parent.”
– Femke Stuut MSc.
“Nathalie is an inspiration to us all. We know her as a very deep, down to earth, sensitive, strong and courageous being…the way she dealt with the terrible loss of one of her daughters was, and is, absolutely inspiring. This book will be a great support for many people.”
– Deva Premal & Miten
