Pregnancy and infant loss are not a typical dinner table conversation unless you, like me, have empty seats at that table. Please consider this your invitation to my metaphorical weekly dinner party, where we discuss it with care and without judgment.
I’m your host, Gina Gonzalez. In me, your host, you get a mom who experienced loss, a licensed mental health professional, and a PsyD graduate as a subject matter expert on perinatal loss.
This is where we speak candidly about living life after the death of a baby. This topic is not for the faint of heart, but neither is the experience of losing a baby. Here we are willing to go deep, get muddy, and embrace all the mess this journey can involve.
We will explore different aspects of life that we are often not given a heads-up about in order to prepare and then left with a full mix of unexpected thoughts and emotions.
This Podcast is where:
Where lived experience laid the foundation.
Clinical expertise strives to empower resilience.
Curiosity drives passion for how we can enhance support for our community.
13 October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month Part 2
Send us Fan Mail A single candle can connect grieving families across the planet and it starts with one hour. We’re in the second week of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and I’m sharing what this month is really here for: remembering our babies who were gone too soon, making space for honest grief, and reminding bereaved parents they are not alone in a journey that can feel painfully isolating. I walk through meaningful ways communities show up, from memorial walks and hospital re...
7 Oct 2026
12 Pregnancy And Infant Loss Awareness Month 2026 part 1
Send us Fan Mail Silence can linger for decades, even after a national awareness month exists, and that’s exactly why October is especially important for all of us. Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month was designated back in 1988, yet parents navigating miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss still run into stigma and shame. I’m naming that reality out loud, and I’m also naming what can change when we choose solidarity over silence. I talk about why participation matters, even if it’s ...
30 Sept 2026
11 I Opened TikTok And Found Loss and Joy
Send us Fan Mail TikTok surprised me and not in the way I expected. I went looking for community around pregnancy and infant loss, and within a few minutes I felt the full swing of grief: proud of the vulnerability and advocacy I saw, then suddenly in tears, even though I started out hoping for something uplifting. That emotional whiplash is real. We talk about what’s helpful about online support groups and what’s hard about having limited control over what shows up on your screen. I’m encou...
23 Sept 2026
10 There Is No Universal Way To Handle Baby Items
Send us Fan Mail The quietest grief decisions are often the heaviest: what do you do with the diapers, the crib, the stroller, and the baby shower gifts when you come home without a baby? I’m Gina Gonzalez, and I’m opening up an honest conversation many of us get left to figure out alone, the emotional and practical reality of baby items after pregnancy loss. I walk through how my choices changed over time, from passing along wipes and samples before they expired, to wrestling with the unspo...
16 Sept 2026
09 How Two Songs Helped Me Find Light Again
Send us Fan Mail A song can be background noise for years, and then one day it becomes a mirror. I’m Gina Gonzalez, and I’m sharing how music opened a new awareness for me after the loss of our son, especially during seasons when life keeps moving but you feel like you’re only surviving. Sometimes the smallest details become a gateway back into the richness of living, and for me, that gateway was listening to lyrics I thought I already knew. We walk through two songs that landed with u...
9 Sept 2026
08 We Stop Treating Our Pain Like A Problem To Fix
Send us Fan Mail You can “keep going” and still be shattered inside. That’s the tension Shruti Tarebi names with heartbreaking clarity as she shares what it’s like to live through perinatal loss, return to work before you’re ready, and carry grief quietly while parenting your living children. Shruti is a former IT professional turned transformation coach, and she speaks as both a bereaved mother and a parent navigating everyday life after losing three babies, including identical twin boys los...
2 Sept 2026
07 Secondary Losses Keep Grief Alive Longer
Send us Fan Mail Grief after pregnancy or infant loss isn’t only about the day everything changed. It’s also the quiet, repeated losses that follow you into regular life: the milestones you never get to see, the identity shift that hits when you don’t have a living child to parent day to day, and the gut-punch reminders that show up on birthdays, holidays, and even back-to-school photo season. We take a deeper dive into secondary losses after perinatal loss and how they can complicate healin...
26 Aug 2026
06 Do You or How Many Children Do You Have?
Send us Fan Mail “Do you have children?” can be a casual question for most people, but after pregnancy or infant loss, it can hit like a wave. Today's episode makes space for the reality that these questions can impact us, and that many of us were never given advance notice of this potential emotional trigger. We can walk through how to decide what to say in the moment by looking at a few grounding factors: which question was asked, how long the interaction will last, and your emotional...
19 Aug 2026
05 Daily Coping: Loss and Restoration Strategies
Send us Fan Mail I’m Gina Gonzalez, and I’m walking you through the dual process model of coping, a grief framework that finally put words to what my own journey after stillbirth has looked like over the years. We will discuss some specific examples of loss-oriented and restoration-oriented coping strategies. From memorial rituals like wind chimes, butterfly plants, and meaningful symbols to counseling, peer support, journaling, and creative mementos, we talk through loss-oriented...
12 Aug 2026
04 Dual Process Model of Coping
Send us Fan Mail Grief can feel heavy enough on its own, then life keeps demanding that you function like nothing happened. I’m Gina Gonzalez, and I’m introducing a practical grief framework to guide your healing journey: The Dual Process Model of Coping. According to this model, there are two modes of coping: loss-oriented coping and restoration-oriented coping. Loss-oriented coping is the part of grieving that leans into the emotional reality of the death. Whereas restoration-oriente...
5 Aug 2026
03 Coping and Self-Compassion for Perinatal Bereavement
Send us Fan Mail Coming home without your baby can take your breath away, and sometimes the first thing you notice isn’t tears, it’s numbness. I talk through why that shutdown can be protective, what it might be telling you, and how self-care and self-compassion become essential parts of perinatal bereavement, whether your loss was recent or years ago. If you’ve ever wondered why you feel detached, overwhelmed, or like you’re just going through the motions, you’re not broken. You’re respondin...
29 Jul 2026
02 Grief Does Not Follow A Straight Line
Send us Fan Mail Grief after pregnancy loss or infant loss can feel like you’re carrying a life-altering truth in a world that wants you to stay quiet. We open with a clear, compassionate look at different kinds of perinatal loss, including miscarriage, stillbirth, termination for medical reasons, and neonatal deaths. We name something that hurts many families: comparison narratives that imply one loss should be “easier” than another. We hold firm to a simple truth here, every loss has ...
22 Jul 2026
01 Introduction
Send us Fan Mail We’re opening the door to honest, compassionate conversation about pregnancy loss, infant loss, and perinatal loss and what life can look like after the hardest goodbye. I’m Gina Gonzalez, and I’m coming to this work from multiple angles: my own experience with a stillbirth at 40 weeks and an early term miscarriage, plus my clinical background as a licensed mental health counselor with advanced training in perinatal loss and doctoral research on how loss impacts mental healt...
18 Jul 2026
00 Teaser
Send us Fan Mail Coming Soon!! If you have a topic you’d like me to cover on the podcast, or if you would like to share your creative coping strategies to help our listeners, I’d love to hear from you. Please contact me by: Email- gina@moderncounselingsolutions.com Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/moderncounselingsolutions Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/moderncounselingsolutions?utm_source=qr These episodes are fueled by sunshine and plenty of coffee. If you want to help keep th...
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