"The Emptiness Just Consumes Me"

"I want to sincerely thank you for your wonderful work, your presence, and for always being there to listen and support me! There should be more people like you 🖤 Thank you so much for the loving comfort!
As for how I will get through the coming time – I honestly don’t know! Yesterday I had to go to the office, and that helped a bit as the distraction was significant, but at home, with our children, the emptiness just consumes me... I look at Emma and Lukas, and I can’t get the image of being a 'family of five' or how three children walk hand-in-hand out of my head. Since the kindergarten is closed this week, we planned some outings, but I just can’t handle it... as soon as I see pregnant women or children/babies, I almost break down inside. Even when the two were playing together, I couldn’t hold it together and again I couldn’t shake the image of the 3rd child/baby. But these are now my consequences.”

— Lena*

^{*The name has been changed to protect the identity of the woman who was counseled.}