Navigating the Holidays After Pregnancy or Infant Loss | Episode 058 with Mary Catelyn Stamm
Episode 58
Each week during the month of November I am interviewing women about what it looked like to navigate the holiday season while grieving. If you are joining us for the first time, make sure you go back and listen to Episode 56 with Lindsey Dennis & Episode 57 with Ashlee Karasch for incredibly helpful and relatable wisdom about navigating the holidays while grieving.
In today’s episode I have the privilege of interviewing Mary Catelyn Stamm. She offers gracious and tender words that are honest but bring comfort and hope. We talk about what makes the holidays so hard amidst grief, we work through the expectations we put on ourselves and expectations others put on us and how to navigate that.
Mary Catelyn offers invaluable wisdom about communicating expectations with your spouse or partner and how even though those conversations are messy it’s vital and incredibly worth it. We talk about creating traditions and I loved that Mary Catelyn said “I wish I had given myself permission to not expect myself to do all the holiday things that first Christmas as if she was still with us.” She goes in to more detail about why she feels that way, what traditions she will keep and what she will not be doing any longer.
Her thoughts on having a niece very close in age to her baby girl who died, is incredible and will surprise you. And if you are listening because you love a grieving mom, Mary Catelyn shares very freeing words of wisdom for you as well.
Lastly, make sure you listen all the way to the end -- Mary Catelyn’s last words of encouragement may be just what you need to get through this holiday season. I promise, they are that amazing.
Mary Catelyn
Learn more about Mary Catelyn over on her website House of Stamm or follow along via instagram, @houseofstamm
