No matter what our medical model or general culture believes, grief is healthy.

-- Franz Schubert --

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --

The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.

-- Franz Schubert --

You didn't need to learn something that only disaster could teach.

-- Megan Devine --

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.

-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross --

Encouragement to look towards the future only ignores the pain you are in right now.

-- Megan Devine--

Grief is not an obstacle. Never let anyone convince you there's something wrong with your grief.

-- Tim Lawrence --

Grief is a sane response to the physical loss of someone, or something you love.

-- Megan Devine --

Perhaps one day we'll be more shocked when a heartbroken soul isn't expressing their grief than when they are.

-- Tim Lawrence --

“Grieving people want and need to be heard, not fixed”

-- Grief Recovery Method --

“When people say that time heals all wounds, they forget that all wounds are meant to be healed. Some wounds are merely held, caressed, acknowledged and wept for. There is nothing wrong with this”

-- Tim Lawrence--

“You want me to get over my loss? Actually it would make more sense for you to get over your need for me to get over my loss”

-- Tim Lawrence --

“We must grieve our unmet hopes, dreams and expectations"

-- Grief Recovery Method --

“We want them to stand beside us, not trying to fix what cannot be fixed, not trying to rush us out of our grief. We want them to stand there, without flinching, and acknowledge what is true: this hurts. This hurts. I’m here”

-- Megan Devine --

“Always defend your right to heal at your own pace. You are taking your time. You are allowed to take your time”

-- Rebecca Baldwin --

Healing the Loss Grief Support

Navigating your way through loss

Welcome to Healing the Loss

I am so very sorry for your loss. I am glad that you found your way here, to a safe, understanding, and compassionate place.


Grief is the normal and natural reaction to significant emotional loss of any kind.


A very few examples of events, experiences, and changes that cause grief:

  • death of a loved one
  • Death of a not so loved one
  • divorce
  • chronic illness
  • physical health/mental health challenges with yourself or a loved one
  • moving
  • financial changes to the good or bad
  • empty nest
  • abuse of any kind
  • trauma
  • loss of trust
  • loss of faith
  • extreme weather/natural events
  • Covid19
  • grief and loss within your employment
  • job loss/employment changes
  • pet loss
  • accumulated loss and trauma
  • anticipated loss
  • identity questions after loss "Who am I now this person is no longer in my life?"


There are so many other combinations of loss and grief that are too numerous to mention here.


My approach is twofold.


Grief and Loss Support  -- I offer compassionate and understanding support in a safe, confidential environment in person or online. You are able to share your loss with someone who has extensive lived experience with many kinds of loss and who "gets it". There is no advice, time-lines or “should's” put on you-just insight and tools to help you navigate and absorb your loss going forward. With hope and light on the horizon.


Grief Navigation Tools-Alongside grief support we may decide to use the Grief Recovery Method.® I will lead you through a program that gives you tools and support to help you move through the pain, isolation, and loneliness of loss. The word "Recovery" can be off-putting as we don't recover as such from grief, we learn how to absorb and integrate grief. I prefer the word "Discovery" when talking about this method, as it is especially helpful with accumulated and unacknowledged loss. The Grief Recovery Method is an evidenced-based program that has been used globally for 35 years with great success. You are discovering all the unheard loss that has been stuffed down and that is no longer serving you and perhaps hindering you in coping with your experience of loss at present.



Please Contact me at Healing The Loss  ~  you do not have to do this alone. I can offer you the tools you need to navigate, integrate, acknowledge, and validate your losses.

Our sessions can be conducted virtualy or in person.  Please do not let distance be a factor in getting support.