Still Loved Coaching

The Still Loved Grief Coach Program was created to help professionals and advocates provide informed, compassionate, trauma-aware support to those navigating pregnancy and infant loss. Enroll for the winter cohort: StillLovedCoaching.com/Certification

Support after pregnancy and infant loss should never be left to guesswork. Families deserve care that is informed, compassionate, trauma-aware, and deeply human. That’s why we created both the Still Loved Grief Coach Certificate Program and our focused specialized trainings designed to help professionals, advocates, and support persons feel more prepared in the moments that matter most. Our programs include: • Foundations of Pregnancy & Infant Loss • Hospital Bereavement Basics • What To Say After Baby Loss • Supporting Families Through TFMR • Pregnancy After Loss Support And our comprehensive Still Loved Grief Coach Certificate Program for those wanting deeper education and practical application in reproductive grief support. Whether you are a nurse, doula, therapist, social worker, bereaved parent, advocate, or someone simply called to this work — these programs were built to provide practical tools, compassionate guidance, and meaningful education you can immediately apply. 100% online. Self-paced. Supportive community. Partial scholarships available. Because families remember how they were cared for during the hardest moments of their lives. Still Loved Coaching Education. Compassion. Connection. StillLovedCoaching.com

NEW TRAININGS ARE HERE 🤍 Over the past several months, we’ve had many people ask for education and support resources that felt more accessible, focused, and flexible for their specific role or area of interest. So we created something new. Our specialized Still Loved Trainings are designed for: • nurses • doulas • therapists • social workers • chaplains • support group leaders • volunteers • loss parents • loved ones supporting someone through loss …and anyone wanting deeper understanding of pregnancy & infant loss support. These trainings are self-paced, trauma-informed, and professionally designed while still remaining deeply human and emotionally safe. Topics currently include: • What To Say After Baby Loss • Hospital Bereavement Basics • Pregnancy After Loss Support • Supporting Families Through TFMR • Foundations of Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support A question we know many people will ask: “How is this different from the Still Loved Grief Coach Certification?” Our trainings are focused educational experiences centered around specific topics. The Still Loved Grief Coach Certification is our comprehensive professional certification program designed to fully train specialized pregnancy & infant loss grief coaches through a much deeper, structured curriculum, live support, mentorship, case understanding, ethics, trauma-informed care principles, and the Still Loved Method™ framework. Think of the trainings as specialized education. Think of the certification as full professional formation and specialization. Both were created with the same heart: to improve the way pregnancy & infant loss families are supported. Because families deserve care that feels compassionate, informed, emotionally safe, and deeply human. StillLovedCoaching.com/trainings

We're not supposed to talk about them. Not supposed to say their names. Not supposed to show their faces. Not supposed to keep loving them out loud. We're not supposed to grieve too long. Not supposed to fall apart. Not supposed to still be sad — Because "you never really knew them," right? We're not supposed to be angry. Not supposed to question. Not supposed to make you uncomfortable With our reality — That sometimes babies die. And when we smile? That's wrong too. Because grief must look a certain way To be believed. We're not supposed to shatter. But we're not supposed to heal either — At least not in front of you. But here's the part no one says. We weren't supposed to lose our babies. That's the only thing that makes any sense. That's what was never meant to happen. So don't hand us shame When all we ever held was love. Don't hand us silence and call it strength. Don't ask us to erase them So you can stay comfortable. Did the world hold a secret meeting And decide how we're supposed to grieve? Because we must've missed the memo While we were planning funerals Instead of first birthdays. These rules - They don't protect us. They protect you. From having to look. From having to care. From having to face what we live with. And you all know — I'll say it how it is: Silence doesn't help. Not the grieving mother still leaking milk For a baby who won't ever feed. Not the father clenching the steering wheel, Trying not to break down on the freeway. Not the broken systems. Not the aching homes. Not the marriages falling apart under the weight of invisible grief. It doesn't help anybody. It doesn't help society — Because stigma keeps the pain underground, Where it festers and multiplies. It doesn't help the medical field — Because they can't fix what they refuse to face. They miss the chance to offer real care, Real aftercare, Real trauma-informed support. Because how can they know what they've never been taught to hold? What helps is truth. What helps is being seen. What helps is not having to carry our grief Like it's something shameful. We post their photos because they were real. We say their names because they were ours. We speak our grief because silence would kill us. You think we're stuck? We're surviving. You think we're making you uncomfortable? Good. Because death is uncomfortable. Because losing your child is not supposed to be palatable. It's supposed to wreck you. And it did. We are not sorry for our sorrow. We are not sorry for our love. We are not sorry for our truth. And we will not go quiet. We speak up - For every grieving parent who's still choking on words They were told not to say. For the ones who walk out of hospitals with a memory box Instead of a baby. For the ones who deserve better care, Better support, Better humanity. We speak up because pretending it didn't happen Will never bring peace. We lost everything. And we are still here. Not healed - But honest. Not whole — But holding on. We are stitched together with memory, Fueled by love that has nowhere to land, Driven by a truth no one wants to hear But everyone needs to. We are not asking for pity. We are asking for space. For our babies to be seen. For our grief to be heard. For our stories to matter — Not whispered, But welcomed. We speak because they existed. We speak because they were real. We speak because the silence has taken enough. And maybe the world will never be ready. But we won't wait for its permission. We are the voice after the heartbeat stops. We are the love that death could not end. We are the parents of children Who changed everything - Without ever taking a breath. And we will keep saying their names Until the world says them too. - Hailey Ricks

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The Still Loved Grief Coach Program was created to help professionals and advocates provide informed, compassionate, trauma-aware support to those navigating pregnancy and infant loss. Enroll for the winter cohort: StillLovedCoaching.com/Certification

You may already support grieving families beautifully. This program was created to go deeper. The Still Loved Grief Coach Certification was built specifically around the psychology, trauma responses, nervous system patterns, identity disruption, and lived realities of pregnancy and infant loss. It is not simply about “supporting grief.” It is about understanding this type of grief with depth, specialization, and clinical-level insight while remaining firmly trauma-informed and human-centered. Learn more here: StillLovedCoaching.com/Certification

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