What Do I Do? by Kimberly Calabrese

How to Help a Loved One Cope With The Loss of a Child

Each year in the United States, approximately 12,000 children ages 1 to 19 will die, according to the CDC. 1 in 4 women will experience a miscarriage, and over 11,000 infants will die in their first year. While these are things no one wants to talk about, it?s likely that you will know someone that loses a child, infant, or pregnancy. The loss of a child is one of the most devastating things that can happen to a parent.?

So many people are completely paralyzed when it comes to saying or doing the right thing to support their friend or family member after their child dies.? No one knows that as well as a parent who has been inundated with requests, or even worse, ignored by their friends and family who didn?t know how to respond to them after the child died. Kimberly Calabrese experienced the loneliness after the devastating loss of her child and has since dedicated herself to helping others who have suffered their own tragic loss, by providing a resource to the friends and family with guidance and action steps for helping a family grieving a child.

Kat Biggie Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of our newest title, What Do I Do?: A Step by Step Guide for Friends and Family to Support Anyone Who Has Lost a Child, by Kimberly Calabrese. (ISBN 978-1-948604-44-4, ebook 978-1-948604-45-1)

Currently available for pre-order everywhere, What Do I Do? is slated to be released on August 6, 2019.??

As Kimberly says, ?You never get over the loss of a child, you evolve.?? In her book, ?What Do I Do??, her mission is to reach as many people as she can with the intent of aiding the healing process for those who have lost a loved one.?

Filmmaker Jessica Steinman Sternin says, ?…this book is an excellent starting point for anyone who wants to support and love someone through their darkest hours.??

Digital ARCs? are available by contacting the publisher or filling out this form.?

Download the full press release HERE.

Join the Blog Tour for What Do I Do?

What Do I Do? A Step by Step Guide for Friends and Family to Support Anyone Who Has Lost a Child by Kimberly Calabrese will be released by Kat Biggie Press on August 6, 2019. The book is available for pre-order on Amazon.

??…this book is an excellent starting point for anyone who wants to support and love someone through their darkest hours.?? – Jessica Steinman Sternin, Filmmaker

This book is full of ideas, checklists, resources, and stories to help and guide the family and friends (not the grieving parents) when they ask themselves – How can I help? What Can I do? after a friend or family member has a baby or child die. It’s the book many grieving parents wish they’d been able to point people to after their child died.

Kimberly Calabrese decided to write this book to help others get through the devastating loss of a child and talks about the critical need of helping family and friends.? She has since dedicated herself to healing others who have suffered their own tragic loss.

As Kimberly says, ?You never get over the loss of a child, you evolve.?

In her book, ?What Do I Do??, her mission is to reach as many people as she can with the intent of aiding the healing process for those who have lost a loved one.

Kat Biggie Press is currently organizing the blog and review tour for What Do I Do?

We are looking for influencers – bloggers, community builders, Instagrammers, people with large Facebook followings, authors, and other grieving parents who really would have loved to have had this book to direct people to every time they got the question – How can I Help? to join us in sharing the news about this book.

If you join us, we’ll provide you with plenty of resources to help you share about the book – links, copy, suggested posts, images, and so forth. If you’d like to run a giveaway, we’ll be happy to send a print copy to the winner you choose. This is an important book, and we’ll do whatever we can to make this easy for you to share.

If you’d like to participate, just fill out the form at the bottom of this page.

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Learn more about Kimberly at http://supportofalovedone.com

Featured Author: Amie Lands

Amie’s writing journey began when her daughter died in 2011. Her newborn daughter Ruthie Lou received a life-limiting diagnosis soon after birth and knowing that she would eventually die, Amie needed support, or an experienced friend, to walk her through this loss. ?After leaving the hospital with limited resources to guide her, she ?searched high and low for a book to help her on this journey. She never quite found what she was looking for. After five years of grief work, tending to her broken heart and eventually becoming a person of support for other bereaved moms, Amie found that she was often answering the same questions that she had in her early grief. Through helping others Amie realized there was a need in this community for a book, an experienced friend, to walk families through this unknown journey. This was the book that she was looking for, and came to write. ?Navigating the Unknown was released in January of 2017 by Kat Biggie Press.?

Our Only Time, Amie’s follow up to Navigating the Unknown, ?was created to motivate, inspire and show appreciation for medical professionals through experiences told from a patient’s perspective. Through heartfelt stories, families share the sacred time spent with their baby ? whether in utero or after birth ? and offer insights into how medical professionals positively impacted their experience. Also included are recommendations on how best to be supportive of patients and what types of actions to avoid during this devastating experience.

Through these incredibly intimate stories of loss, medical professionals can better understand a grieving family’s experience and become equipped to support bereaved parents when they leave the hospital without their baby. Medical professionals will come away with new insights on how to guide parents, empowering them to have the least amount of regret during this loss, and allowing for the greatest chance of healing in their grief as they re-enter the world.

Amie Lands is a teacher, wife, and mama to three beautiful children. She is the author of Navigating the Unknown:An Immediate Guide When Experiencing the Loss of Your Baby,?a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist?, founder of The Ruthie Lou Foundation, and an ongoing contributor at Still Standing Magazine. Since her daughter?s brief life, Amie?s passion is offering hope and providing support to bereaved families during their grief journey. Amie lives in northern California with her husband and their two sons.

Visit Amie on Facebook, Twitter and her website.

Featured Author: Athea Davis

Today’s Gonna Be Awesomesauce!

Available Wherever Books are Sold, September 2017

Today?s Gonna Be Awesomesauce?is a daily mindfulness meditation book for youth, parents, and families (and educators too!) filled with practical wisdom, quirky wit, and edgy savviness created with an educator?s lens, a yogi mom?s heart, and a superhero love for humanity.?

It?s also a book about turning grief (including our daily roadblocks) into rainbows. There are a lot of plans, strategies, checklists, and classes out there that help us try to cope with the stresses of life. Yet, if we don?t know how to practice focus and sustained concentration; identify and self-regulate our emotions; commit time to self-inquiry to gain better awareness about ourselves, how we relate to others and our environment; and learn tools that spark our creative power, then all those plans, strategies, and checklists are nothing more than what appears on the surface. My book takes readers below the surface to tap into a limitless reservoir of the special sauce,?Awesomesauce, which feeds all that stuff on the outside to bring authentic transformation to how we relate in and to life.?

Also included in the book are?365 mindful breathing mantras. If you are short on time and can?t read the day?s entry, take note of the mindful breathing mantra. The book isn?t meant to be analyzed; it?s meant to be?felt?and?practiced?and, to be read with a contemplative lens. Let the words clear your mind and dance in your heart space.?

The book has something for everyone in the family and it?s great for educators too. Whether you read an entry a day or read a few, mindfully breath in the mindful breathing mantras in solitude, with your family, or your class, you will notice a shift in your heart and mind space. In that shift you will feel deep inside that?Today?s Gonna Be Awesomesauce?!

Athea’s Story:

My story in conceiving and writing my first book,?Today?s Gonna Be Awesomesauce: Daily Meditations for Youth, Parents, and Families?began over two years ago when my life, as I then knew it, completely changed from the inside out. I had to dig deep inside for something beyond myself that gave me vision and purpose.?

The words you will find in?Today?s Gonna Be Awesomesauce?infused my life with the breath of new meaning and I trust they will infuse your life with new meaning, too.?

My former spouse and father to my son unexpectedly died in a tragic accident in the spring of 2015. My son was 9 years old at the time (he is now 11). There are seemingly no words that can describe the tailspin of unfathomable pain that this event ignited in my life. But, paradoxically, it was through words ? both written and spoken ? that healed a deeply seeded wound in my body, mind, and spirit.?

So, I tuned into my own?Awesomesauce?and spread it in the pages of my book. As an educator, youth mentor for youth in the juvenile justice system, and mom I use all the tools and techniques that I write about in this book. I live and breathe the Awesomesauce every day and I?ve experienced and see the transformative impact that they?ve had in my life, my son?s life, my students? lives, and the lives of our youth serving time in our state?s prison system.

About Athea:

Athea Davis, CP, E-RYT, RYT 500, RCYT, is a health and wellness educator, youth mentor, and owner of Sol Sense Yoga. She writes, lectures, and consults youth, families, educators, and businesses on topics such as mindfulness, meditation, health and wellness, classroom management, family/conscious parenting, and a variety of social and emotional learning topics. Athea has a multi-faceted background of corporate and public law experience with health and wellness education. She brings an innovative and unique approach to the education/health and wellness sectors. She is committed to increasing social and emotional performance for youth, parents, and educators. In her spare time, Athea takes adventures of all kinds, relishing her most favorite adventures with her son. Together they love to create and spread the awesomesauce in each breath, step, and light and love dab along the way.

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