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Dr. Kimber shares her journey of weaving together grief, anxiety, and trauma into a meaningful whole in her memoir chronicling her journey of grieving the death of her son, which hit the top 100 of pregnancy and childbirth books on Amazon.
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Still: Making A Whole When Parts Go Missing
Few things in life drop us into a state of grief and trauma like feeling your body go into labor months before you expected or hearing the words “I’m sorry. I can’t find a heartbeat.” Whether during the delivery or too soon afterward, pregnancy and infant loss requires us to find our way through the wreckage where joy, anticipation, and “an already love” get replaced by numbness, confusion, and emotional pain so elemental words can’t form.
It’s a slow journey out of devastating loss, one that requires community. On the way to wholeness, there are many questions, Can I get pregnant again? Are we done getting pregnant? What if our next baby dies? What do I tell our living children so they won’t get scared?
Pregnancy loss asks women to risk bonding again, navigate heightened anxieties and should she get pregnant, it asks her to make it through a medical system that isn’t equipped to manage the understandable anxiety and trauma responses at check-ups or worse.
There’s never a perfect way to grieve loss or overcome trauma. There’s never a known outcome of your pregnancy loss until you find a way through without isolating or becoming depressed. When processed, grief and trauma dare us to keep living, feeling, and even, audaciously, find our way to thriving.
In this story, through the eyes of her clinical psychology training, Dr. Kimber shares her journey of weaving together grief, anxiety, and trauma into a meaningful whole. Perhaps in her story you will find pieces of your own. Perhaps you will even be able to dig into what’s gone missing inside of you and discover what needs to be found.
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Join Dr. Kimber as she shares her journey of weaving together grief, anxiety, and trauma into a meaningful whole in her memoir chronicling her journey of grieving the death of her son, which hit the top 100 of pregnancy and childbirth books on Amazon.
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"'Still' by Dr. Kimber Del Valle is a detailed narrative covering a family's recovery after a 34-week stillbirth. The book is well-written, poetic and lyrical, honest in tone, and full of real emotion. Part of what makes this story highly compelling is that the author, Kimber, and her husband, Dennis, are well-credentialed psychologists. Insight abounds on every page as they wrestle with grief, hope, loss, anger, joy, and faith. The story continually points to restoration, yet allows the reader to experience the rawness of real life too. ‘Still’ will grab at your soul and stay with you long afterward."
MARCUS BROTHERTON, Bestselling New York Times author
"...Along the way, occasional poems by the author vividly tap into deeper emotions: ‘We all come with something. / Spoken and Unspoken. / Fragile. / Tenuous, / Unbreakable.’ Overall, this is a chronicle that deserves attention, especially from readers who have suffered similar pain. A moving story that seeks an understanding of one woman’s overwhelming grief.”
Meet Dr. Kimber
In her day job, Dr. Kimber is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in grief work and trauma healing. She's a recent author of Still: Making A Whole When Parts Go Missing, a memoir chronicling her journey of grieving the death of her son, which hit the top 100 of pregnancy and childbirth books on Amazon. As one who loves to live outside of boxes, she’s especially known for her “growling” activities when leading executive leadership retreats. She shares perspectives on healing mental health challenges and practicing slowing down on her podcast, I Thought I Was Over This. Dr. Kimber publishes a spiritual daily reflections journal and invites readers to pause and ponder in her biweekly newsletter. Though a country girl at heart, she’s spent the last three decades in the Southern California area where she’s cultivated deep friendships, dance moves and yearly communal camping trips where spirituality is discussed and only the children age year after year. Married with two living children, 20 and 15, her favorite activities include being outside, watching sunsets, and laughing.