Category: Creating

• One piece at a time – the power of puzzles for healing

  

  Jigsaw puzzles are perhaps the most perfect activity for people in the trenches of grief, and generally anybody who would like some mental and emotional respite. There was a long period around the time we were waiting to find out why Stewie had died, and after we did, where all I could manage to do…

  Charlotte Turner

  Creating, Living

  Activities, Bereavement, Creating, Grief, Grief rituals, Jigsaw puzzles, Loss, Mental Health, Nursery, Stewie, Wellbeing

• Symbolic sewing – Zero Waste Dress

  

  This zero waste linen dress was my first creation after Stewie was born. In the three weeks between his funeral and my six week doctors check up, when I was utterly bereft and broken and the finality of everything had really hit me, I would go into his nursery and sit at my new table…

  Charlotte Turner

  Creating, Grieving, Remembering

  Aching Arms, Baby loss, Bereavement, Creating, Grief, Loss, Nursery, Remembrance Bear, Sewing, Stewie, Stillbirth

• Rediscovering my purpose – Travels With My Son

  

  I had just attended a womens’ circle for womb healing, intended to help us become more in tune with our inner selves and our creativity, as well as healing past trauma and releasing emotional blockages. It was pretty woo woo even by my standards, but seven months on from the reality shattering stillbirth of my…

  Charlotte Turner

  Creating, Grieving, Living, Remembering

  Baby loss, Bereavement, Breathwork, Grief, Grieving, Journalling, Living, Loss, Meditation, Reiki, Sound healing, Spirituality, Stewie, Stillbirth, Support, Travels With My Son, Wellbeing, Womb healing, Writing