Description
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2017 Illumination Award Winner in the Family/Parenting category
More than 1 million women suffer fetal loss each year, yet most mothers will struggle to find words to share their grief or describe their experience. Miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant death can be incredibly isolating, with women feeling silenced by shame or guilt, by confusion and loss of control. In
Still a Mother, chaplains Joy Freeman and Tabatha Johnson share their own experiences and collect the stories of others who have sustained such loss, ending the silence and helping to equip pastors, congregations, family, and friends in ministering more compassionately to mothers who grieve.
Key features:
• A unique resource that fills a gap on the taboo topic of perinatal and early infant loss.
• Honest narratives written by clergywomen who share how the experience impacts one's faith and relationship with God.
• An insightful resource for clergy who minister to women grieving miscarriage or early infant loss.
• Features practical insights for pastoral care in each chapter.
Author Bio
Joy Freeman, MDiv, is an American Baptist chaplain serving at North Kansas City Hospital in the Kansas City metro area. She is board certified with the Association of Professional Chaplains. Also a trained labyrinth facilitator, she is a wife and a mother to a seven-year-old daughter and a precious child who is now in heaven.
Tabatha D. Johnson, MDiv, is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister serving as a palliative care chaplain. She has more than twelve years of ministry experience focused in family ministry, pastoral care, and chaplaincy. She lives in the Kansas City metro area with her husband and three children.