When Grief Needs a Witness, Not a Fix

A new chapter in care, myStoria × Grief Nova

If you've ever sat in a waiting room, or a group chat, or your own kitchen, carrying a loss that no one around you seemed to have language for, this one's for you.

Infertility and pregnancy loss don't just happen to your body. They happen to your relationships, your sense of the future, your place at the baby showers, the version of your life you'd already started picturing. And most people are handed almost no support for that part. So this week we're honoured to feature Grief Nova to the myStoria community as our featured partner.

Grief Nova is the work of Sarah Young, a trauma-informed grief specialist who supports people through infertility, pregnancy loss, and the many quieter losses that come with them. Her whole approach rests on one idea: grief can't be fixed, and it was never supposed to be. What it needs is a witness. Someone who sees the full weight of what you're carrying and doesn't flinch, fill the silence, or hand you a platitude.

Meet Sarah

Sarah came to this work the hard way. After her own infertility journey and multiple losses, she and her husband are childless not by choice, a path she's described as ...