Finding Hope Through Life’s Losses
Finding Hope Through Life’s Hardest Losses | Healing After Loss Coaching
Discover compassionate support for grief and loss. Learn how grief coaching, counseling, and community can help you heal after the death of a loved one, divorce, illness, or other major life changes.
When I recently looked up the top five most stressful life events, the same themes appeared again and again:
The death of a loved one
Divorce or separation
Moving or losing your home
Coping with a serious illness or injury/loss of a body part
Job loss or financial insecurity
If you pause for a moment, you’ll notice something they all have in common: each one is a form of loss, and each brings grief. Maybe you see yourself in one of these experiences—I know I do.
Understanding the Loss
So many of us are grieving right now. The pandemic left behind staggering losses, with over 800,000+ lives lost in the United States alone. Beyond that, accidental overdoses—now the leading cause of death among 18- to 40-year-olds—have devastated countless families.
Divorce continues to affect millions, with nearly half of marriages ending. For many, divorce is not something they wanted, making the pain even deeper. Illness, job loss, and relocation all bring their own kind of heartbreak.
Why Grief Hurts
Yet despite how common grief is, we are rarely taught how to process it. Schools don’t prepare us for it. Families sometimes silence it. Friends may not know what to say.
This leaves so many of us wondering: How do we heal after loss?
Paths to Healing
The truth is, healing is not only possible—it is something you deserve and must occur in order to prevent physical and/or emotional illness. Counseling can help. Coaching can help. Faith and community can help.
I know this because I’ve lived it. My life has been touched by many deep losses: divorce, watching loved ones suffer through long illnesses, the death of my father, and later, the passing of both my mother and my beloved adult son. Each loss left me reeling, unsure how to process the grief.
For me, leaning on my faith and the love of family helped. But my greatest turning point came when I created a private grief support group on Facebook, Healing After Loss-a Christian Grief Group. What began as a small space to share, this group grew into a community of thousands of members worldwide—each bringing stories, encouragement, and hope. Through that community, I realized I was not alone. My emotions were not strange or broken—they were human, and they were normal.
A Calling to Help Others Heal
After years of walking alongside others in grief, I felt called to take this work further. I became a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist (Advanced) and a Personal Life Coach, trained through the Grief Recovery Institute. My ministry is now dedicated to guiding others through the pain of loss, offering tools, support, and compassion every step of the way.
Encouragement
Friend, if you are grieving, please know this: you are not alone, and there is always hope! Healing doesn’t mean forgetting—it means finding a way to carry love forward while rediscovering your own strength.
If you feel ready, I would be honored to walk with you on this journey. Together, we can take gentle steps toward peace and healing.
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