ABSTRACT
The Healing Process Model is a way of viewing grieving that can guide bereaved individuals and their helpers through the grieving/healing process in order to bring about constructive healthy grieving of reproductive losses. Acknowledgment of loss, as a significant reality of the grief experience, became one of the operations/actions/components in the healing process model. Telling the story and re-telling the story of grief and loss to a compassionate, non-judgmental listener is essential to healing. In addition to a reproductive loss history, it is important to know what other losses a person has experienced, especially if they are recent or concurrent losses. Losses and life transitions, even the happy ones, are stressful experiences. Establishing, reconnecting, and continuing the bonds of the relationship with the miscarried, stillborn, or aborted baby is a most effective and comforting component in the healing process. Guilt, remorse, and regret often accompany self blame following reproductive loss. Feelings of guilt are more prevalent than most people realize.
