About Dianna Vagianos Armentrout
“God can create great beauty from utter desolation.”
– St. Olga of Alaska
Dianna Vagianos Armentrout is a graduate of the New England School of Homeopathy. She studied classical homeopathy with Drs. Paul Herscu and Amy Rothenberg and continues to take classes offered by her beloved teachers. Dianna began using homeopathy two decades ago and appreciates the way that the correct constitutional remedy addresses mental, emotional and physical symptoms at the same time. Long-term effects of grief and trauma are a big part of the work that Dianna focuses on in her family practice. She supports people of all ages from infants to our elderly family members.
It gives Dianna great joy to support her clients on their journeys to improved health. She has hope that most people with chronic illness can have a better quality of life and decrease their fatigue, chronic pain and brain fog with a homeopathic remedy. Many clients report a decrease in physical symptoms, negative thoughts and anxiety, and an increase in confidence.
A graduate of Adelphi University’s Honors Program and Manhattanville College, Dianna was once an administrative assistant for a public health clinic in Bridgeport, CT, a legal assistant for an international corporation, a grant writer for the City of Bridgeport, adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University and Southern Connecticut State University, and a poetry therapist. Dianna is an Avatar® Master, and brings students through the Avatar® Courses, supporting them to shift their beliefs to create the lives that they desire.
Dianna is the author of Walking the Labyrinth of My Heart: A Journey of Pregnancy, Grief and Newborn Death published by White Flowers Press in 2016. She has been interviewed about her pregnancy with Mary Rose, her daughter who died after birth of Trisomy 18, by several organizations, and has been on several podcasts. She has a sacred connection to working with bereaved mothers in her homeopathy practice.
Dianna is a writer of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction (below). Her work has appeared in several literary journals and anthologies.
Dianna is the daughter of immigrants from Greece, and grew up in a melting pot in Astoria, Queens. St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox school gave her a good foundation for life. She currently lives in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, with her family, dog and plants. She enjoys working on 1000 piece puzzles, weaving, gardening, cooking, baking and singing in her church choir. Dianna collects indoor plants, and offers cuttings of pilea, spider plants and succulents to her clients. She delights in her community of beautiful souls, and her extensive garden that includes vegetables and berries, ponderosa pine, and native plants for pollinators and hummingbirds, such as red birds in a tree and blue mist spirea.
Dianna has been a writer since she was 14 years old when she began writing poems in eighth grade.
She considers writing to be an inherent human expression since the beginning of humanity. Dianna studied Poetry Therapy with Dr. Sherry Reiter and has taught many people how to write from their hearts with no judgement.
She hopes to get her novel about her Greek ancestors published soon, but in the meantime, you can read some of her published work here.
Walking the Labyrinth of My Heart: A Journey of Pregnancy, Grief and Infant Death breaks the lonely, silent suffering of bereaved mothers facing infant and pregnancy loss.
Dianna Vagianos Armentrout details her pregnancy journey with her daughter, Mary Rose, who died an hour after birth of trisomy 18, a random genetic illness described as “incompatible with life.”
For five long months of pregnancy, she knew that her baby would not live and thrive, planning a funeral and seeking hospice for her unborn daughter. The heaviness of this grief, which most women bear alone, is shared here and will comfort mothers who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death. Through journal entries, essays and poetry, Dianna invites the reader to process grief and honor the life of the child, no matter how brief. In addition, readers will learn how to support the bereaved by remembering the baby and pregnancy.With eloquent language, fierce honesty and a record of the rawness of grief, readers in the midst of their own suffering will recognize the path that bereaved parents walk.
Dianna’s experiences with infertility, motherhood, infant loss and miscarriage infuse her writing with compassion for all women. Finally there is a book to honor the pregnancy, baby and loss, loving the children past their death, loving the wombs that nurtured them and accepting the sacred path of mothering children whose bodies are broken, but whose souls are intact and perfectly whole. This book shines with love and the knowledge that even the briefest life is holy.Read it. Share it. Spread the word. We no longer have to grieve our infants and pregnancies alone.