The Paradox of Grief + Acceptance: Navigating Pregnancy and Parenting After Loss
✨ [ABOUT THE WORKSHOP] ✨
The Paradox of Grief + Acceptance: Navigating Pregnancy and Parenting After Loss
Join Olga Montgomery, LCSW, CAGCS, a radically compassionate grief therapist who specializes in supporting women navigating tragic and traumatic loss, for this live workshop that will gently explore the paradox of grief for mothers who are pregnant or raising children after loss.
⚠️ Content Warning: This workshop includes discussion of pregnancy loss, which may be emotionally difficult or activating. Please engage only as much as feels comfortable. You are welcome to listen quietly, step away, or take breaks at any time. Resources and support will be available afterwards for anyone who needs it.
🙋🏽♀️ Who is this workshop for?
Those considering pregnancy after experiencing pregnancy or infant loss
Those who are currently pregnant with a history of loss
Those who are postpartum or actively parenting with a history of loss
Partners, family, and friends of someone who has experienced loss
Maternal health providers (physicians, midwives, nurses, physical therapists, psychiatrists, and related professionals) seeking deeper understanding of the lived experience of grief
Mental health professionals who want to strengthen their ability to support clients navigating pregnancy and parenting after loss
💜 What is the workshop about?
While grieving, the word acceptance can feel impossible, offensive, and even physically repulsive. Grieving while pregnant or mothering intensifies everything, often leaving mothers stuck in the swirl of their own grief, their family’s grief, and the tangled emotions and personal dynamics that follow a loss.
This workshop will explore:
The intense paradoxes of grieving while mothering, including holding your own pain while supporting other family members’ or children's grief.
Why the word acceptance can feel threatening or wrong after loss—how that reaction makes sense.
How to compassionately re-work “acceptance”— not as giving up, moving on, or letting go, but as something lived, experienced over time, and personal to you.
Gentle, values-based practices to help move from aversion to acceptance in ways that honor grief, self-compassion, and what matters most to you as a mother.
Exploring the emotional, existential, and spiritual layers of motherhood and matrescence after loss.
📅 Details
Date: Sunday, March 1, 2026
Time: 9:30am PST/ 10:30am MST/ 11:30am CST/ 12:30pm EST
Length: 1 hour on zoom
Cost
🎫 Participant: $15 Cost of a single ticket for parents, providers, and other supportive people.
🌳 Equity Access: Free This option ensures that finances are not a barrier to participation. We welcome people with limited resources who would otherwise be unable to join to choose this option.
Sunday Series workshops are FREE for paid members of the Trauma-Informed Maternal Health Network.
❓Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is the format of the workshop?
The beginning portion will be didactic (educational) with time for Q&A at the end.
Q: What if I don’t want to be on camera or participate?
No problem. You can change your name on Zoom if you’d like, too.
Q: Will the workshop be recorded?
Yes! We will send out the recording to all registered participants and members of the Trauma-Informed Maternal Health Network.
Q: Does this count as therapy?
Even though the workshop will be led by a licensed psychotherapist, it is educational in nature and not intended to replace individual or group therapy. Participating in this workshop does not constitute a client- therapist relationship in any way.
Q: I’m a provider. Will I receive CEUs?
While this is a future goal, at this time we do not offer CEUs. Please email [email protected] if you need a certificate of attendance for your school or workplace.
Q: I don’t have personal experience with pregnancy, parenting, and/or loss, but I want to support someone who does. Can I still join?
Absolutely! We welcome anyone and everyone to join in this important conversation.
Q: I have another question. How can I reach you?
If you have any additional questions, please email [email protected].
Q: What is your refund policy? All sales are final. If you are unable to attend live, you will still receive the replay and materials.
✨ [ABOUT THE PRESENTER] ✨
Olga Montgomery, LCSW, CAGCS, is a radically compassionate women's grief therapist and the owner of Voyager Counseling, specializing in contextual behavioral approaches for those women navigating tragic and traumatic loss. With over 12 years of experience working with grievers, Olga integrates personal, clinical, and research learnings to provide expert, trauma-informed care and teaching.
Her clinical practice includes dedicated work with the perinatal population, supporting pregnant and postpartum mothers experiencing grief and post-traumatic stress through compassionate, evidenced, process-based interventions toward post-traumatic resiliency and personal connection with a valued, heart-forward life. Olga practices Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with interwoven thread of Compassion Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Humanistic Counseling.
She helps individuals, groups, and professional learners build meaningful, heart-centered psychological flexibility in the presence of mortality by day; she is mom to a rainbow toddler and a slew of animals, wife to Justin, and cultivator of her physical and metaphorical garden by night (...and also by day).
Learn more about Olga:
Website: www.voyager-counseling.com
Instagram: @voyagercounseling
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voyagercounseling
✨ [TRAUMA-INFORMED MATERNAL HEALTH NETWORK] ✨
The Sunday Series is hosted by Olivia Verhulst and Liz Gray, co-founders of the Trauma-Informed Maternal Health Network.
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