The Miscarriage She Kept in a Box: Why We Grieve Alone
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The Miscarriage She Kept in a Box: Why We Grieve Alone
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Lee Anne is a fundraising consultant, a stand-up comic, and a woman who spent years believing she had to handle her hardest moment alone. In this conversation, she shares publicly for the first time the story of a miscarriage at six weeks, just after moving to North Carolina in 2014.
She describes telling her husband to stay at work, driving home alone through a KFC drive-through, and going back to the office on Thursday as if nothing had happened. She did not tell her mother until after her son was born. Looking back, she names what she was protecting: the belief that she was good at everything, and that this was a personal failure.
The conversation moves from grief to anger, including a very sincere apology to Carrie Underwood, and then to the difference between being private and being secretive. Lee Anne makes the case that the people who love us have earned the right to worry about us, and that shame cannot survive in community. If you are carrying something no one knows about, this episode is an invitation to let someone walk with you.
