Empty Arms

You can love the same person, experience the same loss, and grieve it completely differently. 🤍

One partner may need to talk. The other may need quiet. One may feel everything all at once, while the other processes slowly. Neither way is wrong—and grieving differently doesn’t have to mean growing apart.

Join us virtually on October 21 for a free grief therapy session facilitated by Breland Counselling & Consulting, focused on Couples & Loss.

Together, we’ll explore how partners can honour their own grieving timelines while staying connected, build greater understanding for each other’s ways of coping, and begin to create a shared story of survival, love, and life after loss.

🤍 October 21
💻 Virtual
🌿 Facilitated by Breland Counselling & Consulting
Free to attend

You don’t have to grieve the same way to grieve together.

Register at emptyarmspls.com.

October’s flower is the Cosmos. 🌸🤍

Often associated with love, harmony, and peace, the cosmos feels especially meaningful during Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.

For the babies and children who are loved beyond measure, remembered in every season, and carried with us in all the quiet ways.

This October, the cosmos blooms for them.
For their names.
For their stories.
For the love that did not end when their lives did.

🌸 October | Cosmos
In memory of every baby and child who should be here.

If Cosmos is your little one’s birth flower, we would be honoured to remember them with you. Share their name in the comments, or simply leave a 🤍 if you’d like us to hold them in our thoughts this month.

Gone Too Soon is meeting on October 20th @ 7:00pm 🤍

In Person: 262 Avenue B S Unit #206
Virtually: Zoom link provided upon registration

This peer support group is designed specifically for parents who have experienced a loss of their babies due to miscarriage, stillbirth, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), or neonatal death.

This supportive environment provides a space for individuals to connect with others who share similar experiences and emotions, fostering understanding and healing.

Please visit our website to sign up.

🍂 Our Fall 50/50 is HERE! 🍂

A little chance to win. A whole lot of support for families. 🤍

The Empty Arms Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month 50/50 is officially open!

One lucky winner will take home 50% of the final jackpot!!

🎟️ 1 ticket — $10
🎟️ 5 tickets — $20
🎟️ 25 tickets — $50
🎟️ 100 tickets — $100

Every ticket purchased helps Empty Arms continue showing up for families across Saskatchewan experiencing pregnancy, infant and child loss - with compassionate support, connection and care when they need it most.

So yes, you could walk away with half the jackpot. But every ticket purchased helps make sure another family has somewhere to turn when they need us. 🤍

🍂 Ticket sales close: November 2 at 9:15 AM
🤍 Draw: November 2 at 10:00 AM
📍 Tickets must be purchased in Saskatchewan.

Buy the tickets. Share the post. Send it to the group chat. Let's make this jackpot BIG. 🎉

🎟️ Get your tickets: emptyarms.rafflenexus.com

Must be purchased in Saskatchewan. Actual odds of winning depend on the number of tickets sold.

🚨 WALK MUST-KNOWS 🚨

TOMORROW. WE. WALK. 🤍

Before you head to Kinsmen Park for the 2026 No Foot Too Small Memorial & Awareness Walk, here’s what you need to know:

🕚 Come + go anytime from 11 AM–3 PM
👣 The official walk begins at 1 PM
👕 Ordered merch? Pick it up when you check in!
🛍️ Our full Empty Arms merch shop will be on site
💳 Cash + credit donations can be made right at the walk
🚻 Accessible bathrooms are available on site
🍿 Snacks + drinks for kids of ALL ages
🍋 Lemonade stand by donation
🎨 Face painting
🎈 Warren the Balloon Guy
🎯 Backyard games, Plinko, co****le + more

And remember: you do not have to walk to belong here.

Come for an hour. Come for the afternoon. Walk every step, walk one step, or simply be with us.

We are gathering to remember the babies and children we carry with us, to surround families with community, and to make sure no one has to navigate loss alone.

🤍 See you tomorrow, Empty Arms family.

📍 Kinsmen Park
📅 Saturday, October 3
⏰ 11 AM–3 PM | Walk at 1 PM

Share this post with your team + anyone joining us tomorrow!

Sometimes support looks like talking about grief. Sometimes it looks like watching your kiddo leave a playdate with a balloon. 🎈🤍

Common Threads is our open-play gathering for loss siblings - surviving and subsequent - and their families. It's a space to play, connect, meet other families who understand, and simply spend time together without grief needing to be the centre of everything.

And this time, we have a VERY special guest joining us… Warren the Balloon Guy! 🎈✨

There is no pressure to talk, share or participate in any particular way. Come play. Come connect. Come be around people who get it.

🤍 All families who have experienced the loss of a baby or child are welcome, whether or not you've previously received support from Empty Arms.

✨ Free to attend
🎈 Special guest: Warren the Balloon Guy
🤍 Loss siblings + parents/caregivers welcome

You don't have to already know someone here. Common Threads is where you get to find your people.

Register at emptyarmspls.com 🤍

Know a family who should know this space exists? Share this post with them.

Sometimes grief feels like sadness. Sometimes it feels like anger. Sometimes it feels like fear, guilt, confusion or loneliness.

And sometimes… it feels like happiness. 🤍

For kids and youth grieving a sibling, those feelings can be BIGand they don't always have the words to explain what's happening inside.

Our next Creative Grief Therapy Group for Siblings is Naming My Big Feelings, a session focused on helping kids recognize, name and express the many emotions that can come with grief.

Through age-appropriate conversation, activities and creative expression, we'll explore what different feelings can look and feel like, remind kiddos that there are no “wrong” emotions in grief, and practice healthy ways to express and cope with the big ones. 🌈

Because our goal isn't to make the hard feelings disappear. It's to help kids understand that they are safe to feel them - and that they don't have to figure them out alone.

🤍 Little Lights: Ages 4–6
🤍 Kindred Kids: Ages 7–10
🤍 Together Tweens: Ages 11–14
🌈 Rainbow siblings are welcome, too.
✨ Attend one session or join us for the full series.
💛 Free to attend.

Naming My Big Feelings
📅 October 4
📍 Empty Arms

🔗 Learn more + register at emptyarmspls.com

Know a family who could benefit? Share this post with them. 🤍

The Unexpected Journey is meeting on October 19th🤍

In Person: 262 Avenue B S Unit #206
Virtually: Zoom link provided upon registration

This peer support group is held for parents who are navigating the profound and heartbreaking experience of the death of a child between birth and the age of 17. These gatherings provide a safe space where individuals can share their feelings, experiences, and challenges with others who truly understand their loss.

Please visit our website to sign up.

33 families. 🤍

That's the number we want you to see first.

Because behind every dollar raised for the No Foot Too Small Memorial & Awareness Walk is the opportunity to show up for another family experiencing the unimaginable.

Right now, this community has raised enough to fully fund in-hospital support for 33 families.

33 families who can have someone answer the call.
33 families who can be met in the hospital with compassion and care.
33 families who can receive remembrance photography, memory-making support and the opportunity to honour their baby or child.
33 families who can leave knowing they don't have to navigate what comes next alone.

That's what you've done.

👣 38 teams
🤍 303 registered participants
✨ 407 donations
💛 $39,963 raised
🏆 Remembering Cove is holding the lead

We talk about fundraising goals because we have to - but this is what those numbers actually mean.

And we're not done yet.

Every additional $1,200 raised means another family can be fully supported in hospital. Another family met in one of the hardest moments of their lives. Another family reminded that they do not have to do this alone.

Keep sharing. Keep asking. Keep walking. Let's see how many more families we can be there for. 🤍

🔗Share this post and help us reach the next family.