New Sessions for New Year
Next SPACE online support sessions
Below is a full list of dates of upcoming online support sessions scheduled for early 2025:
21 January 2025
Q&A with Ike Cooke: On infertility, faith & waiting
Ike is a co-host of HTB’s Waiting for Children Course, part of Penny Lane Church in South Liverpool, and the mum of two long-waited for littles. Her own journey to motherhood took a complicated route through infertility and miscarriage, and having struggled to understand these experiences through the lens of her faith she’s now passionate about supporting others who are navigating a similar path.
25 February 2025
Q&A with Jenni Calcraft: Supporting physical recovery after baby loss
Jenni is a registered physiotherapist, pilates teacher, and founder of the PABL Project, which provides bespoke exercise classes to support women through postpartum recovery following a loss. She delivers both in person sessions at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, and has also recently partnered with Tommy’s to offer FREE online classes as well, Jenni is passionate about helping women begin to heal after loss - body, mind and soul.
18 March 2025
Q&A with Doreen Thomson-Addo: Finding joy again after miscarriage
Doreen is the founder of Joy After Miscarriage, and an advocate for improving recurrent miscarriage care and black maternal health. She is a mother to one rainbow baby, following seven losses due to recurrent early miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy, and a later loss too. During this session, Doreen will share honestly about the ups and downs of her fertility and grief journey, and about how her faith provided her with an anchor through it all.
8 April 2025
Q&A with Lydia Costin: Surviving miscarriage and secondary infertility
Lydia is a mum of three from Birmingham, who has journeyed through the terrible heartache of multiple miscarriages on the road to growing her family. Having walked this devastating road herself, she is now sharing her own story to help support others facing similar struggles. This session will help to honestly address the difficulties of waiting to conceive, processing disappointment and grief after loss, wondering where God is in the midst of our pain, and navigating the many challenges of being pregnant again after miscarriage. You can read more about her story here.
13 May 2025
Q&A with Lizzie Lowrie: Surviving recurrent miscarriage and childlessness
Lizzie is one of the co-founders of our SPACE community, an author, speaker, small business owner and church planter. She is part of the leadership team behind Story House, an independent coffee shop, charity and church based in Crosby, North Liverpool where she lives with her vicar-husband Dave, their two adopted kiddos, and their dog Betsy. She is also one half of the team behind the Saltwater & Honey blog, which explores issues of faith, fertility, and childlessness, and she has also written her experiences into a book by the same name.
10 June 2025
Q&A with Lindsey Devlin: Healing when pregnancy doesn’t go to plan
Lindsey is the founder of Elsie’s Moon, a Wirral based charity that aims to support families after pregnancy doesn’t go to plan. She and husband Chris set up the charity in memory of their baby daughter Elsie who they lost in August 2018. The charity now provides support to many other families affected by baby loss, including wellbeing classes, family counselling, memory making, walks, and events throughout the year. Lindsey is such a courageous & inspirational woman - and we just know you’ll be inspired by story!
What can I expect at a session?
Each session is really relaxed – we start with an informal online cuppa and brief introduction to the SPACE host/team. There’ll also be a chance to listen to a short interview style conversation with a guest speaker who will share a bit about their own previous experiences of infertility or loss, and offer some practical advice, and opportunity for participants to reflect on their own experiences and ask questions afterwards.
Anyone who has experienced infertility, or a loss at any stage of pregnancy (whether recently or in the past) is welcome to attend our sessions.
You can come along & participate at whatever level feels comfortable for you, say as much or as little as you like, ask questions and share your own experiences, post your comments in the chat box, or to just listen in quietly, attend with your camera on or off…
It really is your space!
How to join a session…
If you’re on our email list, you’ll be automatically sent invitations, reminders and the zoom joining link for each upcoming session, month by month. You can register (and unregister!) yourself for these updates via our substack page here: SPACE for you here | Substack
Or alternatively, you can email us at: thereisspaceforyouhere@gmail.com