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

Welcome to Healing the Loss

If you are here, you may be carrying grief, loss, or trauma. Healing the Loss offers compassionate online grief support for individuals navigating the many forms loss can take. This is a space where your experience will be met with care, respect, and understanding.


What is Grief?


Grief is the normal and natural response to significant emotional loss of any kind. It can appear after the death of a loved one, divorce, illness, family struggles, financial change, trauma, the impact of COVID-19, pet loss, or other life transitions. Grief also includes the quieter losses that are harder to name but still deeply felt. Whatever your story, your grief matters.


Compassionate Grief Support


Healing the Loss provides confidential grief support for individuals navigating loss and life transitions. I offer a compassionate space where you can share your experience with someone who understands grief not only professionally, but through lived experience.


There are no timelines, rules, or expectations for how grief should unfold. Instead, our work focuses on presence, understanding, and support as you begin to carry what may feel unbearable. Over time, many people find that when grief is acknowledged and witnessed, space slowly opens for healing and renewed hope.


For some, this work becomes longer-term support, where grief, life changes, and meaning are explored over time in a way that feels steady and human.


Tools for Navigating Grief


Alongside one-to-one grief support, we may choose to use the Grief Recovery Method®. This evidence-based program has been used internationally for more than 35 years to help people address unresolved grief.

While the program uses the term “recovery,” I often prefer “discovery.” Grief does not disappear, nor should it. Instead, we discover ways to acknowledge loss, integrate our experiences, and release the emotional weight that can accumulate over time.

This approach can help people address both recent losses and those that may have remained unspoken or unrecognized for many years.


Additional Ways to Learn About Grief


Healing the Loss also offers educational workshops and online courses for individuals and organizations who want to better understand grief and how to support others.

These programs explore the basics of grief, the language of loss, and compassionate ways of responding to people who are grieving in both personal and professional settings.


You Do Not Have to Do This Alone

Healing the Loss was established in 2015, and it has been a privilege to walk alongside individuals through many forms of grief and loss over the years. Based in Nova Scotia, I work with individuals across Canada and internationally.

Support is available online and in person when possible, so distance is not a barrier to receiving care.


Together, we can find the language, tools, and understanding to help you navigate the path of grief.

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