“Our Baby in Our Hearts: A Mindful Story of Grief and Healing” – Available Now.
Our Baby in Our Hearts shares Grayson & Ivey’s touching journey through grief while gently introducing powerful mindfulness techniques to support healing. This comforting companion reminds families that, with time and mindful presence, love can heal even the deepest wounds.
After the loss of their baby brother, Hayes, before birth, nothing feels quite right for siblings Grayson and Ivey. They visit a kind grownup to help them with their big feelings. Together, they learn important lessons:
By reading the touching story of Grayson & Ivey’s grief journey aloud together, children and their families learn 5 practical and age-appropriate mindfulness practices to help big feeling waves grow smaller. Parents are encouraged to practice the mindfulness exercises with their children throughout the day as they walk the healing journey together.
By expanding their bellies like big balloons, deep breaths bring calm amid big feelings.
While acting like body detectives, wiggling toes intentionally begins to unravel stuck emotions.
Like trees standing big and tall, tree pose helps reveal inner steadiness and strength.
Using creativity and visualization, loved ones are brought closer to offer love and supported.
During big feeling waves, positive affirmations serve as powerful healing reminders.
“A blueprint for families learning to grieve together and alongside one another. The techniques and tools shared in the book aren’t just for our kids. They are healing for us parents as well.”
sarah ezrin – award-winning author of the yoga of parenting
Vera V. Chapman, LPC, BCC, CYT
Vera V. Chapman, LPC, BCC, CYT, is an author, coach, healer, and mama. Her life, once consumed by a busy lifestyle in the pursuit of feeling “enough”, shifted dramatically after the devastating loss of her son to stillbirth in 2021.
Embracing her grief, she peeled back layers of trauma, found self-love, and rediscovered the essence of “being.” Today, Vera shares the transformative tools of yoga, reiki, and sound healing through her writing and holistic wellness coaching practice, Resonating Soul Wellness.
With over a decade of experience supporting women through coaching and counseling, she introduces “Our Baby in Our Hearts,” her first children’s book, inspired by her two living children’s grief journeys. She is also the author of the “Light in Loss” daily healing affirmation cards series for women. Vera, originally from Cape Town, South Africa, calls New York home alongside her husband, their two spirited living children, and two naughty dogs.
