Losing a baby changes everything, including the parts of life people rarely talk about out loud.

In this deeply honest episode of The Empty Arms Podcast, I sit down with Erin, board president of Empty Arms of Greater Bangor, and Sara — grief poet and sex therapist — for a conversation that is tender, brave, and profoundly needed.

Together, we talk about sex and intimacy after loss: how grief can reshape our relationship with our bodies, our partners, and ourselves. We explore the ways loss can create distance, longing, fear, guilt, and even confusion in places that once felt familiar. We also talk about the unspoken pressure many bereaved parents carry, the expectation to "move forward," reconnect, or somehow return to normal when nothing feels normal anymore.

Sara offers compassionate insight into how trauma and grief live in the body, while Erin brings the perspective of lived experience, leadership, and walking alongside families navigating unimaginable pain.

This episode makes space for the hard truths: intimacy after loss can feel complicated. It can feel impossible. It can feel healing. Sometimes all at once.

If you've ever felt alone in what loss has done to your relationship, your body, or your sense of closeness, this conversation was made with you in mind.

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