Life after loss

I interviewed Federica Attanasi, author of “The Shape of Emptiness,” a poetic collection of words and images about perinatal grief. Writing has been my way of breathing inside the void. …

The loss of a child is a deeply traumatic event that not only affects the personal sphere but is intertwined with the working and social lives of those affected. Although …

New 2026 meetings for parent members We will walk together again this year, to go through the mourning Going through grief online meetings, Friday afternoons, 6-8 p.m. Feb. 20: The …

“Mom” and “dad”: how beautiful these words, full of love and meaning, among the first words we say as children.

Mary Shelley is an ongoing CiaoLapo project that uses books and reading as tools to reflect on perinatal grief, grieving, the pitfalls of the grieving process, but also the resources, …

In 2019, during the long process for the Ashoka fellowship, at the end of a very long morning of interviews, I met the founder of Treedom who told us about …

After a perinatal bereavement, a new pregnancy is never just a “new pregnancy,” but a complex time, inhabited by conflicting emotions: desire and fear, hope and alertness, presence and absence, …

A very common feature of bereavement is that it also makes situations that are usually interesting, pleasant and easy to deal with for other people. Holidays in general, anniversaries and …

Sexuality after a perinatal bereavement is a topic that is rarely addressed in Italy because, like death, sex is also a taboo. Especially after a perinatal bereavement.

After a loss, especially after a perinatal loss, which is characterized by the painful dearth of memories, lives of bereaved parents are filled with a long series of “first time …