Finding Hope After Child Loss with Grief Coach, Megan Hillukka

Losing a child is an experience that can turn your life upside down. You wonder how you will ever find hope again or how you can keep going. This week we had the chance to talk with Megan Hillukka who is a grieving mother herself and who is now working with other grieving mothers as a grief coach.
 
Megan is a grieving mother turned grief coach who is encouraging, coaching, and supporting grieving women as they navigate one of the most difficult experiences of their lives. She has found that with the right tools and support, every woman can have life and happiness after child loss, if they want it. She has 6 children, one of them, Aria, lives in Heaven. Megan lives in Minnesota with her husband of 9 years, Justin. She is passionate about showing what's possible, and continually learning and doing the work in her own life as well.
 
She shared her story with us about how she and her husband, Justin, lost their 15 month old daughter Aria, and about the trauma and PTSD that came after. She shared her journey of healing and how she then turned to grief coaching to help other women.
 
She believes in post traumatic growth. That it’s possible to have a life that’s better than before.
 
She says, “I support grieving moms in being able to discover life again to be able to instead of just surviving everyday instead of living under the mask, instead of just functioning everyday but not truly living. I help them connect with their bodies and their emotions and be able to move through grief in a way that I think a lot of people don’t think is possible.”
 
To connect with Megan
Check out her podcast at www.meganhillukka.com/podcast
Join her Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/cultivatedfamily
IG @cultivatedfamily
 
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Hi friends, welcome to the Fit For Motherhood Podcast!!! Thank you for taking time out of your day to listen, we are SO excited to have you with us! We have been friends since early childhood, grew up together and are currently the moms of littles 5 and under. A LITTLE BIT OF INFO ON US Ali lives in central Illinois with her husband, Matt, and their three kids (4, 3 & 1). She is a part time hair stylist and spends the rest of her time at home with her kids. She is an enneagram 9w1. Alyssa lives in Chicago with her husband, Grant, and their two toddlers (3 & 1). She works part time as a pediatric oncology nurse and is also a certified holistic health coach & life coach and the owner of Grounded Roots Coaching. She especially loves working with women during their first year postpartum. She is still trying to figure out her enneagram. WHY ARE WE PASSIONATE ABOUT THE TOPIC OF MOTHERHOOD? • We’re MOMS • We’ve both experienced difficulties in our journeys as moms and have felt alone in dealing with those challenges. • We’re tired of the perfect images that are crafted on social media to which we find ourselves comparing our lives. • For Ali, she has become more self-aware in the last year or so and is tired of being dragged along by life. She has challenged herself to find ways to be more proactive about her mental and physical health because she realizes how much those things affect her ability to parent effectively. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS PODCAST? • Letting moms know that they are not alone in questioning their fitness for parenting • Encouraging other moms to know that we can do the hard things of motherhood, even when we doubt our abilities. • Sharing practical applications and also ideas that can be helpful in keeping ourselves mentally and physically fit for motherhood. We would love to have you with us every week as we talk together through topics that are important to us (and hopefully you!), interview other moms who are walking through all the different issues that come with the different stages of motherhood, and bond together over the things we have in common that truly make us fit for motherhood.