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The Virtue of Vulnerability: How Miscarriage Reconnected Me to My Intuition

The Virtue of Vulnerability: How Miscarriage Reconnected Me to My Intuition, by Cindy Kirkilis-Kramer. Photograph of baby carriage by Henrik Lagercrantz
Photograph by Henrik Lagercrantz

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

Finding hope and healing after baby loss, one woman awakens to her gifts of guiding others through these same difficult life waters

I felt betrayed by my intuition after my miscarriage in 2015. Because of this, and the emotional pain the loss had caused, I lost the connection with myself, my joy in life and

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