Renewal & Resilience
Focusing on You
You don't have to stay lost in loss.
Let me help you reclaim your sense of self, connection to life, well-being, and yes, inner joy.
Hello.
While you may look okay to the rest of the world, I see you. I suspect you often feel lost in the shadows of grief. Life as you knew it is over, but you don't see a path into a new life either.
You're grieving not only the one you've lost, but, let's be honest, you're also grieving you a little, too, yes?
Where did you go? Who are you now?
You're ready to feel fully alive again. Yet you feel torn between a nagging sense of guilt about even wanting to be happy and answering that tiny voice within, asking, "Isn't there more for me?"
You've tried doing it all on your own, maybe even joined a support group or two, but something—something deep and meaningful—is still missing.
You need a path & a guide
The Renewal & Reslience Program
A proven pathway back into your life, with personal coaching from a mentor & trusted advisor who's been where you are.
Let's come together on a tailored, transformative 3-month+ experience designed to guide you through the places where you feel stuck in grief and toward a reimagined life reflecting:
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purpose & a renewed sense of identity,
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a continuing connection to the one you've lost, and still love, so you can live forward,
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revived relationships with family, friends, the world around you, and you,
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true well-being, peace, confidence, creativity, optimism, and inner joy.
Along the way you’ll create your personal toolkit of habits, rituals, practices, and mindsets to support your personal growth now while cultivating resilience for the journey ahead.
What my client's say they appreciate most about my coaching and mentoring is found in my emphasis on deep listening, posing mind- opening questions, exploring possibilities they didn't see for themselves, and mirroring back mindsets and negative self talk that don't support creating vibrant, meaningful lives.
You can't change, what you can't see about yourself. A coach sees you.
What if you discovered there's more to you and to your life than you ever imagined?
How our process together works ...
Intention. Understanding. Compassion. Direction. Action.
the ingredients for achieving well-being
Our process begins with a online starting-point assessment, followed by an in-depth Intention-Setting and Orientation conversation (typically over 75-90 minutes). From there, we begin twice-monthly virtual conversations (one-hour each) tailored to your needs and the intentions set for our work together.
When you release your grief, how do you want to feel?
I offer both a 3-month and a 5-month working engagement—both follow the same process.
We'll be using a combination of live conversations, along with small, yet essential, actions or assignments between conversations. These next-step actions are designed to help you address specific challenges while opening pathways for healing and growth. We'll be sure assignments are meaningful, without creating overwhelm or being time intensive.
Based on how best to support you, assignments may take a variety of forms: self-reflection exercises; meditative, visualization, and/or breathwork practices; somatic approaches (involving body & movement); written, video and/or audio resources; journaling & creative outlets; and other activities related to breaking through blocks and developing supportive rituals, habits, mindsets, and ways of being.
I share approaches that work. You pick those that work for you.
Because growth and life-healing happens between our live conversation, you'll have direct access to me via fully private, chat messaging (both text and audio options). You can ask questions, we'll discuss issues that come up, and I'll be checking in on your well-being and progress all along the way.
All of our work together happens in my private, secure, online client platform. It hosts our Zoom-like conversations (with cameras on or off per your preference); our text & voice chat messaging; assignments & next-step practices; and a range of additional resources you can explore to support yourself at any time.
My support doesn't stop after the last conversation.
To ensure you’re supported after our 3-5 months of working together, there's an additional month of chat support, to help you integrate the tools and practices we developed to support you, navigate challenges that arise, and share successes as you live forward from your loss, into a life that feels good again.
In a nutshell, what you get ...
1:1 Conversation
Twice-monthly virtual conversations (one-hour each) tailored to your needs and the intentions set for our work together.
Mindful Action
Next-step actions between conversations to help you address specific challenges while opening pathways for healing & growth.
Chat Support
Direct access to me between conversations via fully private, chat messaging (both text & audio) for questions, discussions & check-ins.
Safe Space
Private, secure, online client platform for hosting live conversation, chat messaging, assignments & action steps, and additional resources.
After Care
Additional month of chat support, to help you integrate the tools & practices we developed to support you, navigate challenges, and share successes.
Are you ready to find your pathway back to you?
Who is this for &
why work with me?
Who is this program for?
The Renewal & Resilience Program has been created to support those (most often women) at midlife & beyond who are ready to integrate the loss of someone they love into a vibrant, meaningful Second Act.
While still in the grieving process, my clients are typically past the emotionally-raw, early days of grief and are able to function 'okay' most days. As one client put it, "I'm mostly able to cope every day, but coping isn't really living, is it?"
When people come to me they're still feeling lost and caught in waves of grief that seem to come out of nowhere. There's an inner pull towards living more fully again, but they feel stuck in 'loss limbo'—that place where you can't go back to your old life, but also don't see a way forward into a new life that's light-hearted, optimistic, and purposeful again.
Why work with me?
We’ll take a holistic approach, bringing together mind, emotions, body, and spirit (whatever that means for you) to help you develop the practices, habits, rituals, and mind shifts to renew your life and create deeper resilience for the challenges ahead that inevitably come with being a human on this planet.
I not only draw from traditional mental and emotional health coaching modalities and research-informed grief support techniques, I also bring a one-of-a-kind framework I've developed called the Grief Releasing Pathways process.
This new framework grew out of my work with clients and others—and my own journey with loss—to transcend grief and reimagine what's possible for our lives.
The Grief Releasing Pathways process enables you to hone in on where you are struggling most, then together, we work through specific, small, yet transformative steps that guide you through the 'stuck' place into a space of self-discovery and unrealized potential.
Finally, as a naturalist and a creative—and depending upon my clients needs and preferences—I integrate a range creative and nature-infused approaches proven to boost new thinking, emotional stamina, self-nurturing, and overall well-being.
It's good to know how to cope. But coping isn't really living.
How can you explore the potential of working together?
Here are your next steps:
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Learn about my approach: If you haven't yet watched the 16-minute video where I discuss my Grief Releasing Pathways process, then click the button below to be taken to the video on the Homepage of this website.
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Learn about me and my background: Check me out a bit more by visiting the About page. You'll find the link to that page on the top menu of this website.
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Learn more about the benefits of coaching & mentoring vs. traditional counseling & psychotherapy: Check out the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) link using this website menu above.
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Schedule an Embracing Life After Loss Consultation: This 25-30-minute consultation is a complimentary, safe-space, phone conversation. Together, we'll explore where you're struggling most, unlock new insights about your specific journey with loss, and identify possible next steps. I won't be offering my paid services, but instead being a resource to you as we get to know each other a bit. At the end, if we both agree that working together may make sense, we can then schedule another time to talk about what that would look like for you.
Click below to hear more about the
Embracing Life After Loss Consultation.
Then, if a consultation makes sense for you, you'll be taken to a page to schedule a time that works best for you, after answering a handful of questions so I can better understand your situation and make the most of our time together when we talk.
What would it mean to you to live with true inner joy, knowing your life matters? It's possible for You.
What's the investment & any guarantees?
Results?
The Renewal & Resilience Program is offered as either a 3-month or a 5-month mentoring and coaching program. As a tailored, life-rebuilding experience, it includes all the components described in detail above & summarized below:
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One-to-one private, virtual conversations twice monthly, after an initial 75-90 minute in-depth Intention-Setting & Orientation session.
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Focused, doable & proven action steps to support progress toward your intentions.
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Direct access to me between conversations via voice & text chat messaging.
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Private and secure online client platform where all of our work together happens.
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Additional month of chat messaging support after our 3- or 5-months of working together,
It's an investment in your well-being and ability to make the most of your heartbroken-and-still-unfolding life.
3-Month Program: $2,700, or $1,000 per month for 3 months
5-Month Program: $3,900, or $875 per month for 5 months
My Risk-Free Promise to You
While no one can guarantee someone else's joy and well-being, when my clients complete our work together, they understand how to:
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❥ Take the reins of their grief so they feel less at the whim of dark emotions.
❥ Tame their wild thoughts and self-blaming self talk.
❥ Go safely within to unearth a new sense of purpose & identity.
❥ Learn to hold on to the one they love and have lost in new ways.
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This is My Risk-Free Promise to You
If, after our initial Intention-Setting & Orientation conversation, working with me doesn't feel right for you, then, no worries, I'll refund your fee.
For the very first time, I truly feel heard and understood. No one has understood me or what I've been going through these last few years. I have felt so very alone. What a gift, not to feel so alone anymore.
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What my clients say
What I've learned about love & loss
"You released her as ashes a little at a time—into the garden, the slow green river, the swell and surge of the Pacific. Tears every time, their sting, necessary. It took months, though releasing made space. For what? It was joy, that refugee always wanting to come back home."
— from Grieving Us: A Field Guide for Living with Loss Without Losing Yourself
