The Physical Impact of Grief on Your Body — and How to Recover

🌷 The silence of stillbirth carries a weight words cannot capture, yet within it blooms an unbreakable bond that transforms loss into love.

In this insightful episode of The Forties Formula podcast, hosts Jasmin Dhillon and Amanda Lim sit down with JAYNE STREET, a passionate advocate for mental health and wellbeing. A former lawyer turned fitness studio owner, she is now pursuing a Masters of Counselling, drawing on her personal journey and expat experience to support others through life’s challenges.

They talk about the painful experience of losing a baby, the heartbreak of being in a maternity ward filled with newborn cries, and the tender ways Jane continues to honor her daughter Summer’s memory. She also shares her journey through postnatal struggles, the role of support in healing, and how grief can be transformed into compassion for others.

Together, they explore:

• The experience of delivering a stillborn baby and its impact on the family

• The role of counseling, community, and open conversations in healing

• Rituals and keepsakes that honor a baby’s life, no matter how brief

• How postnatal anxiety can quietly build and show up in daily life

• Why advocacy is key in getting the right care and treatment

• Gentle ways friends and family can support after loss and heartbreak

Grief changes a person. It leaves an emptiness that hurts, but it also stretches the heart to love in deeper ways. Stillbirth is a painful reminder that life and loss can arrive together in one moment, a child born but silent, a mother holding both love and sorrow in the same embrace.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 – Episode Snippet

01:26 – When the kicks stopped

03:40 — Post lost self and Pre-lost self

06:39 – Pregnancy after loss

10:00 – The power of community

13:32 – Heartbreak in the maternity ward

16:53 – Keeping Summer’s memory alive

19:20 – Healing through nourishment and self-care

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26:02 – Postnatal anxiety, depression, and treatment journey

30:05 – Advocating for hormonal health

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34:48 – Balancing motherhood and loss

36:47 – Supporting someone through grief

41:15 – Deciding on another child after loss

43:29 – Advice for grieving parents

47:23 – A father’s silent trauma

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