Healing Arts Collective Holistic Grief Coach

06/26/2026

Did you know grief can resurface when there is turmoil happening in other areas of your life?

Sometimes grief feels heavier years later — not because you haven’t healed, but because stress, conflict, exhaustion, life changes, or feeling unsupported can stir the tender places inside you.

Grief doesn’t only show up on anniversaries or birthdays.
It can show up when your nervous system is overwhelmed.
When you’re carrying too much.
When life feels uncertain.
When you miss the people who would have helped you through this version of yourself.

And when it does, it’s okay to acknowledge it.

You don’t have to rush it away.
You don’t have to shame yourself for feeling it again.
You don’t have to explain why it still hurts.

Sometimes the most healing thing we can do is pause and say:

“This is grief. It makes sense that it’s here.”

Sit with it gently.
Let it move through.
Let your body soften where it can.

Grief is not a setback.
It’s a reminder of love, loss, and the parts of us still asking to be held

06/24/2026

Showing up. Even when we cry in the car and have to pull it together for outside of the car.

06/02/2026

I am feeling called to begin a small 6-week online grief group the week after the 4th of July.

This group will be a gentle space for those who are carrying grief and wanting support in a way that feels soft, creative, and meaningful.

It will include art, guided imagery, journaling, remembrance practices, and simple rituals for honoring love, loss, and the parts of grief we don’t always know how to put into words.

Some of what we will explore together:

• Creating a remembrance space — a place to hold love, memory, and connection• A guided imagery and letting-go practice using Japanese paper that can be burned as a symbolic release• Self-care practices for when grief lives in the body• Writing to our loved ones• Creating a memory box/art piece• An art project around what grief looks and feels like• A final week of sharing and a special closing project

This will be held on Zoom for 6 weeks. Each gathering will be around 1.5 hours. Some weeks may be a little shorter and some may run just slightly over, depending on the flow of the group.

I will also mail each participant a small welcome package that includes one of my candles, Japanese paper for our letting-go practice, a welcome letter, and an outline of what our time together will look like.

This will be a small, intimate group so everyone feels safe, seen, and not rushed.

I currently have availability on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Sundays.

If this is something you may be interested in, would you comment below or message me with what days/times would work best for you?

Possible options:Monday eveningTuesday eveningSunday afternoonSunday evening

This is not therapy or counseling, but a holistic grief support group using art, guided imagery, ritual, reflection, and community.

Grief does not have to look pretty here. You don’t have to have the right words. You are allowed to come exactly as you are. 🤍

06/02/2026

Grief has a way of showing up in moments you don’t always see coming.

Not just on the anniversary.
Not just on the birthday.
Not just in the obvious places.

Sometimes it shows up in milestones.

Turning the same age they were when they passed.
Surpassing their age.
Realizing you are now walking into years they never got to live.
Having birthdays, seasons, moments, and chapters they will never cross.

That hit me this last week.

I turned the same age my brother was when he passed. And somehow, the next day felt even stranger. Because from that day forward, I will be older than my older brother.

There really aren’t words for that kind of feeling.

It feels final in a way I didn’t expect. Heavy. Strange. Tender. Almost impossible to explain.

And I just want to say, if grief shows up for you in a way that doesn’t make sense to anyone else, it’s still real.

It’s okay to take the day.
It’s okay to sit with it.
It’s okay to cry, be quiet, feel numb, feel angry, feel confused, or not know what you feel at all.

Grief isn’t the same for everyone.
It doesn’t follow rules.
It doesn’t have to look pretty.
It doesn’t have to make sense to be valid.

Your grief is yours.

And sometimes the bravest thing you can do is give yourself permission to feel it exactly as it comes.

05/20/2026

I’m officially a Certified Holistic Grief Coach, and I’m feeling called to open a small grief support group beginning the second week of July.

This group would be held on Zoom so you can stay in your own safe space while still connecting with others from anywhere.

We would meet for 7 total weeks. The first meeting would be a gentle introduction where we get to know each other, talk about the group, and create a safe container together. After that, we would move through 6 full weeks of holistic grief support.

Each week would bring something new as we explore grief through self care, art, journaling, guided imagery, reflection, and community.

This would not be about fixing your grief or rushing through it. It would be about giving yourself space to feel, process, remember, breathe, and be supported in a compassionate way.

After the 6 weeks, if you feel called to continue working with me one on one as your Holistic Grief Coach, we can explore what that could look like together.

I’m just putting this out there to see who may be interested before I finalize the details.

If this is something your heart may need, please reach out to me privately. I would be honored to share more with you.

05/20/2026

Anticipatory grief is something that really hits home for me.

I experienced this with my parents before I ever understood there was a name for it. People would say, “But they’re still living,” and I was grateful they were still here… but there was also this deep knowing of what was coming.

Watching someone you love slowly change, slowly slip away, or knowing life will never be the same does something to your heart, your mind, your body, and your soul.

Grief doesn’t always begin after the loss. Sometimes it begins while you’re still holding on.

If you have experienced this, or if you are in it right now, please know it’s okay to feel the grief. It’s okay to take time for yourself, to rest, to care for your body, and to check in with what you need.

You are not alone in it.

05/16/2026

Celebrations can feel complicated after you’ve lost family members.

The world sees the holiday, the birthday, the graduation, the wedding, the baby shower, the family gathering… but grief often sees the empty chair, the missing voice, the person who should be there, the way things used to feel.

Sometimes the emotions start before the celebration even gets here. The anxiety, the dread, the sadness, the memories, the wondering how you’ll hold it together.

Sometimes it hits during the moment. In the middle of a laugh. In a song. In a photo. In a tradition that doesn’t feel the same anymore.

And sometimes it shows up after. When everyone goes home, when the quiet settles in, when your body finally exhales and the grief you were carrying catches up with you.

If celebrations feel harder now, you are not broken. You are grieving. You are remembering. You are trying to make space for joy while still carrying love for the people who are missing.

It’s okay to step away.It’s okay to cry.It’s okay to laugh and still miss them.It’s okay to not feel like yourself.It’s okay to need a different kind of celebration this year.

Grief doesn’t mean you don’t want to be present. It means your heart is trying to be in two places at once… with the people in front of you and the ones you wish were still beside you.

05/14/2026

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and one thing I wish more people understood is how deeply grief is connected to mental health.

Grief is not just sadness. It can show up as anxiety, exhaustion, anger, brain fog, numbness, guilt, body tension, trouble sleeping, or feeling like you do not know who you are anymore. It can affect your nervous system, your relationships, your energy, and the way you move through everyday life.

And grief is not only the loss of a person. We grieve relationships, seasons of life, the version of ourselves we used to be, our health, our safety, our dreams, and the life we thought we were going to have.

You do not have to “get over it” or rush yourself back to normal. Healing often begins with learning how to feel safe in your body again, how to breathe through the hard moments, and how to give your grief somewhere soft to land.

This month is a reminder to check on yourself and the people around you. Be gentle. Be patient. Ask for support. Your mental health matters, and your grief deserves care too.

05/11/2026

Yesterday, I stepped away.
No scrolling. No posting. No performing okay for anyone.
I gave myself the gift of stillness — to sit with her memory, to feel whatever came up, and to just be with my grief instead of around it.
And it wasn’t easy. But it was exactly what I needed.
Mother’s Day has a way of finding every tender place inside you, no matter how many years have passed. There’s no getting used to it. There’s no “by now it should feel different.” Some years the waves are smaller. Some years they catch you completely off guard. Yesterday caught me, and I let it.
I thought about her laugh. The way she made me feel seen. The things I wish I could still tell her. The ways she lives on in me every single day — in the work I do, in the way I love, in the reason I became a holistic grief coach in the first place.
She is my why.
She’s the reason I believe so deeply that grief deserves a safe, gentle place to breathe. That you shouldn’t have to rush through it or hide it or explain it to anyone. That the love doesn’t go away — it just changes shape.
If you spent yesterday struggling, or quietly missing someone, or just trying to get through — I want you to know I was right there with you. Not performing. Just feeling. Just remembering.
You’re allowed to honor your grief however it needs to be honored.

05/04/2026