An Interview with ICF-Certified Coach & Self-Healing Spiral Practitioner Sharna Southan

After her experience with grief through the loss of her dad & a miscarriage, Sharna knew this was an opportunity to grow her soul & designed ways to heal through the different types of grief. Sharna saw the need for more support in the pregnancy loss space. She founded 'The Institute of Healing through Pregnancy Loss' & became a Business Mentor for women who have experienced pregnancy or infant loss & had an inner knowing they are destined for more. So women can uncover their purpose (soul's blueprint), step into their power, create values & soul-aligned business & live a life true to their heart & higher calling in life. Sharna has designed a method to uncovering your purpose & teaches her signature healing through a loss framework alongside a business model to monetize your purpose. Teaching a values-aligned business model & signature healing framework create more empowered women leaders who can provide a safe space for women to reconnect to their divine self & start their healing after pregnancy or infant loss. Her mission is to create more accessible support for women to heal specific to pregnancy or infant loss.

Sharna Southan, Pregnancy Loss Coach

Who is Sharna Southan?

My name is Sharna Southan. I am a mum to 2 babies, one in heaven & a toddler Earthside, our rainbow baby. I am also a Stepmum.

We live on the South coast of NSW, a tourist destination, close to incredible beaches that people from the cities travel to visit. I consider myself so lucky to be living where we do. I have been married since 2009 & since 2012 my husband & I own a small convenience store together.

I became certified as a Life coach & Self healing Spiral Practitioner and In 2019 I started serving women in the Pregnancy Loss space with my knowledge & growth from my own loss. In 2020 I Founded The Institute of Healing of Pregnancy Loss.

I love living by the ocean, that is my place to feel grounded & feel the weight of the world lift away from me.

What is it that you do for your clients?

So, rewinding a little bit to understand the background for me to do what I do. My husband and I were trying to conceive for 4 years. We ended up seeing a fertility specialist & fell pregnant within a couple of months after seeing one. This was our first pregnancy & within the moments after finding out we were pregnant my whole future changed.

I had this grand vision of how my life would look with a little one in it. What I had wanted for so long!

This pregnancy was to end in tragedy. We lost our little one at 7 weeks gestation. My whole world was shattered with the words “I’m sorry there’s no heartbeat”. My first pregnancy ended in loss & I thought at that moment this meant I was never going to have a family. My hopes & dreams were ripped away from me.

What I offer for my clients is a place for them to start to understand & get a grasp of their experience. To start putting one foot in front of another with more clarity & direction.

It uses different healing modalities to help process the energy of emotions, understand their wounds & showing compassion & calming techniques to return to love for themselves & their life again.

You cannot return to a state of joy & love for yourself or your life if you have unhealed wounds or emotions & guilt, shame, resentment or blame in your heart.

It is such a soul shattering time, made worse when society just doesn't understand your pain.

I offer them a place where they feel deeply seen, heard & understood.

A place for them to process their grief, their emotions & the loss of that grand future they had in their mind's eye.

I offer them tangible, actionable tools to implement in their day so they can cope & they feel in control of their lives again. Tools they can use even if all seems to be doomed, to get them back out of their rut.

They are also learning life skills, which they can use within any life challenge.

It is an opportunity to rediscover & reconnect to their essence as a woman & create a different, but still intensely beautiful future again.

Who should hire/work with you?

Women or men struggling with navigating life after pregnancy loss.

I specialise in pregnancy loss & navigating life after pregnancy loss. Healing your mind & body from the trauma of pregnancy loss.

So if there are any women or men who are struggling with their experience, whether it’s recent or some time has passed, healing happens in layers, there is always an opportunity to process your experience deeper.

Mentally & physically pregnancy loss affects you. It also has a ripple effect throughout different areas in your life. Your job, your internal health, your relationships, your decision making, your reactions etc.

We don’t necessarily have to have you relive your pain to heal it. With the use of different modalities we can release the trauma without you having to go down that path again. We don’t have to reopen wounds.

This is very different to traditional therapy & counseling. Like traditional therapy; You have the safe space to open up & process your experience, talk about your experience & understand your experience.

BUT we go one step further; to release the energy of emotions & release the trauma from your body WITHOUT having you experience your pain again.

So, if you are looking for support?

If you are wanting a professional who ‘Gets you’, and can validate what you’re going through BUT can offer you tangible tools to help you cope & navigate life after loss, then what I have created within the Institute of Healing through Pregnancy loss is for you!

It is what I needed within my healing & growth. So I know it is what you are craving too!

What is your big goal?

My biggest goal is to see women healing their trauma from Pregnancy Loss & living the fullest expression of their lives they can. Elevating their vibration & standing in their power. Being a more empowered & evolved woman because of her loss. Not ending her story at the grief & loss.

And teaching my signature Pregnancy Loss Blueprint to Health & Wellness professionals/ coaches, so they can integrate the structure, depth of understanding & knowledge into their services, contributing back on a bigger scale & enhancing their offers.

I want to see more health professionals step up & integrate this form of support into their current offerings so more women can be touched by healing & understanding from society. That they don’t have to hide this part of their life away from anyone anymore!

My vision & goal is much bigger than just me!!

If any of this resonates with you, I invite you to connect with me through the ways provided at the bottom of the article.

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