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Providing help and healing after the death of a baby in Plymouth
My Plea:
I have volunteered at the Acorn Centre for nearly two years now, going from a student volunteer to a qualified person-centred counsellor. I chose to volunteer at the Acorn Centre as it is a charity close to my heart providing specialist pregnancy counselling for men and women throughout Warwickshire. Supporting those who are facing difficult pregnancy and birth related issues, such as fertility, miscarriage, still birth and post-natal depression; amongst other issues.
I feel honoured and privileged to be able to carry out the work that I do supporting individuals through their hardest and most heartbreaking lows and losses. When I found out that I had been nominated by Sarah for this award, I was truly speechless (which believe me, doesn’t happen often!)
I thought how can I truly do this plea justice? How can I say what I want to and get the message across about how passionate and important baby loss and bereavement work are for me. With this in mind I’ve decided to keep it simple.
The key messages behind this plea for me are:
*To continue to raise the profile of baby loss by supporting and educating people in whatever individual way they need to be supported with empathy, compassion, patience and non-judgement. We have a duty to be; “stronger together”; and to continue the difficult conversations to ensure every loss has been recognised and honoured.
*To thank Sarah for trusting me enough to share in her story and to allow me to hold her hurt and grief for her until she was able to hold it for herself. My college tutors and supervisor always said “you get the clients you need” and I truly believe this about Sarah. I have heartfelt admiration for her and she has taught me what great strength, humility, determination and pure love there can be in loss and grief.
Most importantly, this plea is to remember a sweet baby boy, Finlay Watts. A beautiful butterfly.
What Other’s Have Said
“Kerry has shown such great empathy and compassion towards me over the past few difficult months. Most importantly though, despite our open and honest discussions about my thoughts, feelings and experiences, never once have I felt judged for the actions I have taken over the past five years since Finlay died. She makes me feel like she really wants to help me work through my difficulties and that she will walk with me until I feel able to continue this hard journey of grief without her by my side.”
Congratulations on your nomination Kerry, you represent the centre so well and our clients with the time you give.
Well Done Kerry. No more than you deserve. Keep up the great work x
Congratulations on being nominated; a deserved nomination.
Congratulations on your much deserved nomination Kerry. We are all so very proud of you – providing help and support to those who need it most. You are a very special woman.
All our love……Rob & Bobby xxx
100% deserved nomination your passion and empathy is clear for all to see. your dedication to the acorn centre and pregnancy loss is second to none. congratulations
Well done Kerry on being noamanited you do a great job
You are very deserved of this for all your commitment
Congratulations on your much deserved nomination Kerry. We are all so very proud of you – providing help and support to those who need it most. You are a very special woman.
All our love…..Rob & Bobby xxx
Congratulations on your nomination Kerry! You are a very deserving nominee for all the passion and hard work you have put in over the past couple of years. Well done x
Well done on your nomination, lovely to get the recognition for the help you have given to people and the hard work that has gone in to to make it possible.
Amazing work Kerry, proud to see your nomination! I can imagine that you offered Sarah “all of you” and that this is most definitely a significant recognition of the work you do to make a difference to support others in their journey to find themselves and learn to live with such huge and significant loss.
I would like to have seen you “speechless” (Really??) and wish you EVERY success in getting the award 🙂
Well done Kerry on the nomination after all your hard work and compassion.
I will mirror other comments that you are a very special lady, who will not realise just what a difference you make.
Well done Kerry. This is so deserved as you have worked so hard. I’m honoured to have the privilege of working along side you as your supervisor. I’ve seen your growth and the way you completely give your all to your clients. They are very lucky to have you along side them on their journey. Well done again and congratulations on the nomination.
Well done Kerry. This is so deserved as you have worked so hard. I’m honoured to have the privilege of working along side you as your supervisor. I’ve seen your growth and the way you completely give your all to your clients. They are very lucky to have you along side them on their journey. Well done again and congratulations on the nomination.
I was absolutely buzzing to see that you had been shortlisted in this category, Kerry, and then when I read your plea, it just confirmed that I had made the right decision to nominate you for this award. I really hope that you are getting the recognition that you deserve for all of your hard work, dedication and compassion.
Thank you so much for remembering Finlay; I was completely taken aback to see his name in your plea. It just goes to show what a wonderful lady you are! :)…