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Join us LIVE tomorrow for a brief Guided Grounding Practice to regulate your nervous system and ease anxiety.

When things slow down, it can be even harder to trust things are still moving forward & progressing.

When we go fast or operate on autopilot, we miss the experience... the lesson.

Before we can find deeper connection & meaning in our relationships, work, and hobbies, we must connect first with ourselves -- our first home, our body.

✨There is value in slowing down & grounding.
✨There is power in rooting ourselves into the present moment.
✨There is great reward in learning how to create ease in our minds & bodies.

Over the next 3 weeks we'll offer you 3 different tools to help you gain more awareness of your mind-body connection and explore what works best for you.

See you tomorrow (6/1) at 7:45pm CT / 8:45pm ET!

As always, we'll post the recording if you can't join live -- you'll want to save and share this one 😊

Life is filled with ups & downs.

There are experiences, like loss, change, & transitions that can leave us feeling:

💫lost
💫disconnected
💫confused

Lost as to how to navigate through these experiences.

Disconnected from ourselves and our inner guidance that lets us know what’s in alignment with us and what is not.

And confused as to how to make sense of it all and how to move forward.

Our mind & body can be sources of:

💫connection
💫life
🌙guidance

when we learn to trust ourselves.

Brooke & I are inviting 10 souls into this 4-week journey that starts June 20.

As a bonus, we will be offering a 50-minute free session for the beautiful beings that register by Friday, June 2.

To register, click the link in our bio🌿

Our 4-Week Program, Grief & The Body is finally open for enrollment🎉

and I designed this program to help individuals take a break from constantly being wrapped in their minds & learn how to return to their bodies in the midst of grief, loss, & transition.

Grief, as we know, isn’t exclusive to the death of a loved one.

We grieve many losses such as:

✨ relationships
✨our health
✨jobs
✨ our identity & so much more

Grief is a response to loss that might feel foreign but is natural & inevitably felt by all of us in our unique ways, presenting as:

✨ fear
✨anxiety
✨sadness
✨ apathy
✨guilt & so on

Grief can lead to physical pain, discomfort, or even illness if we don’t move it through our bodies.

Our bodies are the vessels that are designed to get us through this life journey.

And it is when we are open & willing to connect with it, that we are able to learn how to navigate the different life experiences with more alignment & ease.

This program was designed to help individuals remember how to connect with both their mind & bodies through education, community support, and body-based practices🤍

This journey is open to 10 individuals and you can secure your spot using the link in our bio ✨

We start on June 20🤍

Tomorrow is the big day 🎉

Brooke & I are excited to finally be sharing with you all what we have been working on.

In these past few months, we have experienced both death-related and non-death related losses and changes that have called us to connect more with our hearts, minds, spirits, and bodies.

And it has been that calling that has fueled what we have created 🤍

Join us LIVE tomorrow at 6:30pm CDT / 7:30pm EST to hear more about our big news ✨

The reality of the holidays is that they will resonate differently with everyone.

However you choose to spend this Mother’s day holiday, just know that you don’t have to justify yourself or what you choose to do.

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Join Chanie and I for our LIVE where we will share our thoughts and experiences on the importance of self-advocacy when seeking professional services.

Oftentimes, trusting that we know ourselves best, even when it comes to working with professionals, can be tricky!

If you’ve ever questioned whether what a medical or mental health professional has told you about yourself is accurate, just know that you’re not alone🤍

We’ll see you tomorrow at 12:30pm EST 🤍

This community is more than just “followers”.

This community is family.

Family that each and everyday show up for themselves and others in their grief journey in so many different ways.

I’ve had the pleasure of crossing paths and connecting with so many beautiful souls that have shared their thoughts, stories, & grief with me and this beautiful community.

I’ve had the honor of crossing paths with who has been courageous and loving enough to share her grief with me through her poetry.

Here’s Erica’s intention with this poem:

“During my grief journey, I’ve had many paradoxical and oxymoronic moments, thoughts, and emotions. This is my attempt at putting the experience into words. I hope it resonates with someone out there. We are not alone in our grief, even though it often feels that way.”

Share this beautiful poem with all of the beautiful grievers in your life🤍

This coming Friday I will be going LIVE to talk all things grief, marriage, babies, and just how it’s been experiencing certain milestones without my mom.

Change, even when for the better, takes time to adjust to.

Sometimes we think that the grief goes away when life starts looking up and the reality is that the grief is always present.

It’s always present but not in the way that we imagine it to be.

Like us, our grief evolves as well.

If you have any questions that you would like for me to address during the LIVE regarding grief & milestones, I invite you to drop them in the comments below or shoot me a DM🤍

Today marks 12 years since my mom died.

12 years seems like forever, yet, it still feels like just yesterday when she was here.

With every year that passes by, the permanence of her departure continues to set it.

The permanence and irreversibility of April 6, 2011 is what I’ve grappled with for years.

I spent years going back to the days leading up to her death.

Trying to find the fault.

Trying to find the reason.

Trying to find the reality, where she could’ve survived, just as she had done so many times before.

12 years later and there are still many mixed emotions.

I’m sad.

I’m heartbroken.

I’m at peace.

I’m angry.

I’m living.

12 years later and the tears are still there.

12 years later and I still wish she was here.

12 years later and a lifetime more to go.

Sometimes people wonder why time becomes so important after the passing of a loved one.

The echoes of time becomes so loud and present because it’s the one thing we never have enough of with our loved ones.

12 years later and someway, somehow, I’ve managed to survive a life that I never thought I could do without her.

12 years later and my wish for my grief community is that you continue to give yourself permission to feel and honor your grief, unapologetically, regardless of what people think and say.

And regardless of how much time has passed.

Because grief is a forever journey.

We change with it overtime.

But it never truly leaves us.

Because it’s a part of us.

Just how our loved ones will always be a part of us🤍

Healing is not a destination.

Rather, it is a journey.

Sometimes the misconceptions and beliefs that we have on what healing “should” looks like can really set us to spiral on all the ways we are failing and not good enough.

Healing doesn’t look for perfection.

It looks for progress.

Healing doesn’t look to shame or judge us.

It looks to understand us and embrace us with love and compassion.

Everyone’s healing is individual and no one can do the work for you.

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And I never thought I’d see the day where I could say that I was finally living again.

Life after loss didn’t always seem possible for me because I barely knew if I would even survive the death of my mom.

Her death has rocked and turned my world upside down in ways that words could never truly describe.

And yet, through the most of painful experiences, I’ve somehow managed to survive enough moments that have amounted to 12 years and counting.

But the thing about surviving loss is that there will come a point, where our being yearns for more than just survival, it yearns to be able to live again.

This is your reminder that you too will survive this and that step by step you too will feel like you’re living again.

Sending my love to my grief community🤍

And my mother, I love you and I miss you every day. Wishing you a happy birthday on your special day upstairs 🤍

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Jealousy throughout the grief experience is normal and quite common.

Many people have the misconception that feelings, especially, the unpleasant ones, mean that we are feeling something “wrong”.

The reality is that emotions are not always black and white.

Jealousy comes up in our grief journey for a variety of reasons but one of the main ones is…YEARNING.

Yearning to have a moment, any moment again with our loved ones.

Yearning to hear their voice.

Yearning to see and touch them.

Yearning to have the reality that a lot of us feel robbed of.

The reality that included them.

So if today, you’ve found yourself feeling jealous in your grief for whatever reason, just know that it doesn’t make you a bad person, it makes you human.

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Death and grief can bring up a lot of fears and anxiety that seem to become real and possible after the loss of our loved one/s.

When death knocks on our door, we suddenly realize that tragedies can happen to us and those around us.

In trying to cope with this newfound reality, our nervous system can go into overdrive trying to figure out ways to stop this from happening to us again.

Although we can never truly stop death or many experiences from happening.

There is a lot to be said and explored on this topic but sometimes the very fear of it can silence the pain and worries we feel inside.

Join me LIVE tomorrow at 2:30pm EST where I will share my perspective and hopefully shed helpful insight to my community 🤍

Grief is complex.

Relationships are complex.

There will never be a perfect relationship and sometimes we can forget this when our loved ones die.

Having a balanced perspective of our loved ones can help us to gain a clearer perspective on our experiences with them.

A relationship is not the responsibility of one person.

Everyone plays a role in their relationship dynamics.

Which tip do you resonate with? Comment below ⬇️

This is a perfect example of just how complex grief can actually be!

Relationships can be complicated and too many times we feel forced to sanctify our loved ones just because they’ve died.

But the reality is that the relationships we had with our loved ones are not always positive or healthy.

Relationships come with so many layers.

And as such, grief also comes with different layers.

What are your thoughts?
Share in the comments below ⬇️

Join and I during our IG LIVE tomorrow as we discuss the power of grief movement🤍

Grief movement is a practice that helps us connect with our mind, body, and spirit as we try to learn to navigate through life after loss.

See you all tomorrow at 12pm EST🤍

Grief movement is a practice that connects us, even just momentarily, to the depths of our grief in a way that words are not always able to.

How powerful is it to be able to sit with our grief and not feel scared?

How powerful it is to sit with our grief and see it through the lens of compassion and understanding?

Grief movement is a practice of self-love and love for all those that are no longer with us.

My 12-week grief program includes grief movement and teaches individuals how to move grief through the body along with grief education and supportive counseling🤍

The waitlist for the June Cohort is available and you can join by visiting my website www.LifeafterLoss.co or click the link in my bio🤍

Over the past few weeks I’ve had the honor of being a guest on Tiffany’s podcast as well as Chanie’s podcast 🤍

Being able to share my story of loss and my overall perspective on grief-related topics is such a powerful and meaningful experience for me!

My mission all along has been to help make this a more supportive and understanding world for grievers everywhere so that we don’t have to continue going through this alone🤍

You can check out the links on & bio to listen to the podcast episodes 🫶🏽

I’d never thought I’d see the day when I would see ANY benefit or upside to grief.

How can something as painful and raw like grief have any kind of benefit?

Truth is, grief connects us to our humanity in way that not many other experiences can.

It lifts the veil before our eyes and we see this life, this world, in a way like we weren’t able to do so before.

Grief, as complicated and inconvenient, helps us to value and appreciate time, the people around us, and the things that are truly important.

Grief can help us to live with intention.

Grief, while painful, can help us to connect with the humanity of others.

Comment below which benefits you’ve experienced so far ⬇️

This week I turned 32.

Prior to my birthday, I reflected a lot on my journey.

I thought about the younger versions of myself that didn’t always know how she was going to get through some of the most difficult experiences.

I thought of all the times I wanted to give up.

I thought of all the times I cried wishing all of this would be over.

I thought of all the times the feeling of desolation consumed me and I felt like I was living in an existence that was separate from everyone else.

The grief that has come from the death of my mom and all the other hardships, heartbreaks, and disappointments sometimes made me feel like I was just here to suffer.

As I fast forward to the present, I realize how much my reality has changed over the years.

I’ve struggled long and hard to feel alive again but I finally feel like I’m living.

I’ve struggled long and hard to feel and trust my happiness and here I am able to experience it unapologetically.

I’ve struggled long and hard to find my purpose and drive in life and here I am now doing what I love.

I’ve struggled long and hard to create a supportive and loving tribe for myself and here I am surrounded by people that love me through all of my different facets.

I’ve struggled long and hard but despite what I believed, I made it to 32.

I’ve made it to a point in my life where I sincerely feel connected to my life again.

To anyone out there struggling just know that I see you.

I see your pain.

I see your efforts.

I see your light.

Sending you my love🤍

Good Morning 🫶
New Episode of Portraits of Grief Podcast out now! I had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with Lindsey from and we connected again over mother loss but also, just talking about the realness of grief and loss.

✨Lindsey is a certified grief educator as well as mental health advocate, who does such purposeful work in helping others to feel empowered in their grief experiences by understanding more about their feelings and emotions behind grief.

✨We walk about a lot, and one of my favorite parts of the conversation was learning more about movement through grief and how to use our bodies to tune into grief and what we physically feel.

✨Talking with Lindsey was so natural and felt like I was talking with a good friend! 🫶 So, if you need some encouragement, want to not so feel alone, and just know that what you are feeling is natural—- take a listen! On all major podcast platforms. Enjoy ❤️

Join us LIVE tomorrow as and I discuss the power of writing through our grief🤍

For me, writing has allowed me to peel back the layers of myself and my grief in ways that hasn’t always felt possible through spoken word.

I can’t wait to share this beautiful discussion with you all!

We hope to see you all tomorrow at 2 PM EST🤍

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The thing with grief is that we don’t just grieve the people we lose;

We also grieve all the things that come after and that they won’t be present for.

Secondary losses are oftentimes misunderstood or minimized, which can make the grief experience so much more isolating.

When we start to understand how the secondary losses show up in our lives and how we grieve them, we learn to hold ourselves with more compassion, flexibility, and patience.

Secondary losses is one of the various topics we cover throughout our 12-week grief program🤍

The waitlist for the June cohort is now open and accepting applications.

There are 5 spots available.

To apply, click on the link in my bio or visit my website at www.LifeafterLoss.co

Grief is not only in the tears.

Grief is so much more.

There is grief in our minds.

There is grief in our hearts.

There is grief in our soul and the person we once were.

There is grief in all the aches and pains.

There is grief in our body.

The changes that we experience throughout our grief journey can sometimes leave us feeling lost, depleted, overwhelmed, and wonder if we will ever feel “normal”.

This is a journey that no griever should face alone.

My 12-Week Grief Program was developed to foster community support amongst grievers, to educate on the various grief-related topics, & to learn how to move our grief through the body.

This is a program that was designed to empower grievers to become the expert of their own grief🤍

The waitlist for the cohort starting is June is officially open🤍

Click the link in my bio or visit my website: www.LifeafterLoss.co to apply

Tune in for tomorrow’s IG LIVE at 2pm EST, where and I will be discussing a topic that affects many of us throughout our grief experience.

Navigating through grief within our relationships with family, friends, significant others, & peers can come with so many changes, so much unknown, and so many questions.

Grief can affect many different areas of our lives and I am grateful to have Kayla help me shed some light on this topic and experience 🤍

For those of you that can’t join LIVE, feel free to watch the replay after and share it with anyone who may benefit from it 🤍

Your support system will not always look like how you initially imagined.

There is grief in that.

There is a yearning to have those who have known you best be the first ones by your side when life and death happen.

And the heartbreak comes when that yearning and expectation turns out differently.

Those that once understood us before our loss, all of a sudden can feel distant and strange.

While support will not always come from the people that you most expect it from, it can also come from those that you least expect it from🤍

Tag someone below ⬇️ who has supported you in your journey✨