About Me

In December 2021, my world unexpectedly imploded–the love of my life, my soulmate, my best friend, my business partner, my everything, Greg, died by suicide.

Nothing would ever be the same on any level. The minutes, hours, days, weeks and months immediately following Greg’s sudden/untimely death were filled with nothingness and chaos; numbness and pain; disbelief and reality.

I look back and wonder how I made it through…yet I did.

In my moments of relative (I use that term loosely) clear thinking, I found I knew more of what I didn’t want than what I did want. I didn’t want anyone else to walk alone through losing their person–now don’t get me wrong, I had and still have the support of my daughter and some family and some friends. I knew some widows, but not many. I did not know anyone who lost the love of their life to suicide.

As time went by, I found myself searching for everything about grief and life with grief as I could find. One path led me to become a Certified Grief Educator through David Kessler’s program. He is a world-renowned grief expert and through his unique methodology, tools and decades of experience, David Kessler paves a way to Certified Grief Educators to provide the highest level of grief support in the often-unacknowledged rocky terrain that is grief. I have the personal experience, unfortunately, that allows me to ‘get it’ when others, who have not lost their spouse or life partner, simply cannot.

I already had a handful of other certifications prior to Greg’s death and I found myself on another path that led me to become an Integrative Wellness and Life Coach, helping me with the ‘living my life and not just existing’ part of my search. Putting all these things (and more) together, has led to the creation of Grieving Naturally – a place where all widows, and especially widows of suicide and other sudden causes of death can find understanding, compassion, support, and hope.