The Beauty in What Broke Me - Digital Copy
If you’ve lived through HELLP Syndrome, Preeclampsia, birth trauma or a medically complex pregnancy - this book was written for you.
This is not a textbook. It is not clinical advice.
It is what it feels like to survive it.
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Some experiences change everything.
Not only the way you see the world, but the way you see yourself.
After birth trauma, pregnancy loss or a life-threatening birth, life continues around you while part of you remains frozen in the room where everything changed. The questions linger. The grief arrives without warning. The fear settles quietly beneath ordinary days. And so often, the deepest pain is the feeling that no one truly understands.
The Beauty in What Broke Me was written for those moments.
With warmth and honesty, this book gently walks beside you through the hidden landscape of trauma, grief and healing. It does not ask you to move on, think positively or rush your recovery. Instead, it offers something far more valuable - a place where your story is believed, your emotions are honoured and your heart can finally exhale.
These pages are filled with quiet reflections, compassionate insights and gentle reminders that healing is not about becoming the person you were before.
It is about learning to love the person who survived.
Because even after the breaking…
there can still be beauty.
This is a digital copy of this book. To purchase a physical copy, please click here.
About the Author
This book was written by Tabitha Thompson, a mother who has lived through multiple forms of maternal trauma, including Postpartum Preeclampsia after a full-term pregnancy, a premature birth at 30 weeks complicated by Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome, panic attacks linked to PTSD during a subsequent pregnancy, and the unexpected challenge of Endometrial Cancer.
Tabitha is a Counsellor and Operations Director at Calm Minds Clinic, where she supports individuals and families navigating trauma, grief, burnout and complex life transitions. Her work is shaped by a unique blend of professional practice and lived experience. She also brings extensive background in disability support and advocacy, alongside a strong focus on emotional regulation, resilience and rebuilding identity after distressing life events.
She is currently accepting counselling clients.
Her approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in both clinical understanding and real-world experience, offering a space where people feel safe, heard and supported as they reconnect with themselves.
