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Anne Abel
Anne Abel’s story about unwittingly rescuing an aggressive dog, Milo, won a Moth StorySLAM in New ...
Katie Adams
Katie Adams is a Detroit-based writer with an affinity for mascara and early 90s sitcoms. Heavily in...
Nicole Alston
As Founder and Executive Director of The Skye Foundation, Nicole Alston’s mission is as heartfelt ...
Rob Anderson
Rob’s journey began in March of 1998 following the murder of his son, Brendon. “I fell hard, I f...
Monique Antoinette
Monique Antoinette is a new author who fell in love with her grief after the suicide of her only son...
Heather Arbuckle
Heather Arbuckle is a wife to Marty, and mother to Jack, Lily, and Sofie, a friend to many, and a da...
Gloria Arenson
Bio for Gloria Arenson, MFT, DCEP Gloria Arenson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Di...
Megan Aronson
Megan Aronson is a writer, mother, spiritual seeker, and self-certified Grief Expert who teaches t...
Thomas Attig
Thomas Attig is the author of The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love and How We G...
Becky Aud-Jennison
After a lengthy career in human services and as a mental health clinician, Becky Aud-Jennison now co...
Rebecca Austill-Clausen
I am a science-based Occupational Therapist who learned to communicate with my deceased loved ones e...
Jenna Baddeley
Jenna Baddeley is working on a Ph.D. in clinical and social/personality psychology at the University...
Alisa Bair
ALISA BAIR received double undergraduate degrees in both Music Education and Music Therapy from East...
Richard Ballo
Richard Ballo is a national speaker and author in grief and healing and has been a professional writ...
Larry Barber
Larry Barber knows grief all too well. In May 1993 his wife Cindy and two year old daughter Katie ...
Julie Barnes
Julie Barnes is a women's empowerment coach and mentor, founder of ClaimYourShine.com and the creato...
Harry Barry
Harry is an experienced medical doctor who, following a period of running a hospital in the Third Wo...
Mary Bart
Mary Bart chairs Losing Our Parents, a registered charity. As her parents’ principal caregiver fo...
Vicky Bates
After 18 years of marriage and career, we decided to adopt two babies. My oldest had many health iss...
Maggie Bauer
My journey beyond the pain of loss has been a life long one. I have had a significant amount of los...
Bob Baugher
Bob Baugher, Ph.D., is a recently retired Psychology Professor from Highline College in Des Moines, ...
Meryl Beck
Meryl Hershey Beck, MA, M.Ed., spent her early professional life as a high school and community coll...
Nancy Manahan & Becky Bohan
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Dr. Nancy Manahan, Ph.D., is a community college English teacher, now retired. Becky Bohan, M.A., is...
John Beerman
Rev. John Beerman, M.Div., is a unity minister serving Unity Community Church in Dunedin, Florida. J...
Peggy Bell
Peggy Bell is a retired educator with forty years of teaching experience, as well as an author and b...
Rhonda Belous
Rhonda Belous is a spirited, innovative Facilitator and Teacher with extensive experience in leaders...
Bunny Bennett
As a social worker, Bunny knows full well that the world is filled with oppression, social problems,...
Anne Berenberg
Anne Hatcher Berenberg, Ph.D. was widowed when her children were young. She is a clinical psycholog...
Donna Berger
Donna Berger lived a balanced life of faith, family, friends and her career as a nurse anesthetist u...
Mike Bernhardt
Mike Bernhardt’s personal journey with grief and poetry began when his first wife died in 1991. To...
Ellen Besso
Ellen Besso is a retired Life Coach, Counsellor & an energy worker. She is the author of An Indi...
Kay Bevington
Kay Bevington, a bereaved mother of an only child who died just prior to her sixteenth birthday, has...
Marcy Blesy
Marcy Blesy is the author of the children's picture book, "Am I Like My Daddy?", which follows the j...
Carla Blowey
Carla Blowey is a Certified Dream Work Facilitator through the Marin Institute for Projective Dream ...
Mark Bodnarczuk
Mark Bodnarczuk is the founder and executive director of the Breckenridge Institute®, a management ...
Lisa K. Boehm
December 8, 2015 changed everything for Lisa Boehm. It was the night that defined time as before or ...
Kerie Boshka
Author and motivational speaker Kerie Boshka has dedicated herself to helping others rebuild a lif...
Kara Bowman
Kara Bowman is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in grief and trauma. She has...
Elizabeth Brady
Elizabeth's son Mack died suddenly on New Year's Eve 2012. Elizabeth teaches at Penn State and her e...
Symon Braun Freck
Symon is the founder of SBF Creative, a creative consulting firm focused on sharing end-of-life care...
Ken Breniman
I was born in rural Pennsylvania and spent 7 years living in Japan where he was a social justice ad...
Lauren Littauer Briggs
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Lauren Briggs has been referred to as a true “Renaissance Woman”; multi-talented, accomplished a...
Richard Bristol
Richard Bristol, PhD, has lived in many regions of the United States and spent three years in Jerusa...
John Brooks
Until my daughter, Casey's, suicide, I had been a senior financial executive in the broadcast and me...
Joy Johnson Brown
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In 1978, Joy Johnson and Dr. Marvin Johnson founded Centering Corporation. The Centering Corporation...
David Browning
David Browning, MSW, BCD, FT is Director of the Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care, an interna...
Kelly Buckley
Kelly Buckley is an author and speaker who, through the power of words, has connected with thousands...
Lisa Buell
Lisa Buell is a writer, activist, mother of three and parent of two. She works with Children’s Hos...
Fran Buhler
In 1993 on the staff of a flagship church in Florida’s capital city, Fran Buhler started sending a...
Cidny Bullens
Cindy Bullens is a critically acclaimed two-time Grammy nominee. Born and raised in Massachusetts, ...
Marilyn Burns
I started my career in mental health 34 years ago. I've always been drawn to helping others. I hav...
Cori Bussolari
Dr. Cori Bussolari brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her practice, working extensively ...
Harriet Cabelly
Harriet Cabelly is a social worker and positive psychology coach. She counsels clients as they cope...
Joanne Cacciatore
Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, founder and CEO of the MISS Foundation, is an expert in traumatic loss and ch...
Jack Cain
Jack Cain lost his wife, son, and daughter in a 20-month period. In his book, Now: Overcoming Crush...
Piero Calvi-Parisetti
Piero Calvi-Parisetti is a Scottish/Italian medical doctor and university lecturer. A member of the ...
Brooke Carlock
Brooke Carlock has been punched in the face by grief on more than a few occasions, but she keeps get...
Mitch Carmody
After suffering many familial losses from a young age and ultimately with the death of his nine-year...
Bonnie Carroll
Bonnie Carroll is the Executive Director of Survivor Programs for the Tragedy Assistance Program for...
Sherry Cassedy
Sherry Cassedy has practiced law and mediation for 29 years and currently has a mediation and privat...
Morton Chethik
Morton Chethik is a longtime child therapist from Ann Arbor, Mich., and emerita professor at the Uni...
Pamela Christie
Pamela Christie is a mother of four children and one angel baby, and the grandmother of one angel ba...
Claire Willis Claire
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As a child, grief was the wall paper in my home. Unspoken traumatic deaths and losses swirled throu...
Dena Clayton
Dena’s whole life has been in preparation for publishing the Love Revealed Stories series. For ove...
Vivian Clecak
Vivian Clecak is the founding executive director of Human Options: Alternatives for Abused Women and...
Kay Clowney
Kay Clowney is a Certified Grief Counselor in Arkansas. She served as primary care-giver in her home...
Carolyn Coarsey
As a former corporate human resources director, and a family survivor of a commercial air disaster, ...
Fred Colby
Fred Colby has served as a director, board member and consultant for nonprofit organizations in Cali...
Paul Coleman
Dr. Paul Coleman is a psychologist in private practice for over thirty years and the author of a doz...
Douglas Colthurst
Born in rural Illinois, graduated from a high school with total enrollment of one hundred seventy-fi...
Rod Colvin
Rod Colvin describes his passion for the topic of prescription drug addiction as coming from the dea...
Gabriel Constans
Gabriel Constans, Ph.D., continues to discover and share the most effective exercises and insights h...
Franklin Cook
Franklin Cook is the creator of a peer grief support telephone service called Personal Grief Coachin...
Jacqui Coombe
Jacqui Coombe is a blogger, marketer, wife, and now mum to a beautiful 1-year-old daughter, Lily, an...
Stephanie Cooper
In 2007, Stephanie Cooper was an executive at a small but very successful Los Angeles music and ente...
Kira Copperman
Kira B. Copperman, LMSW, is the President of KBC Consulting, a boutique health-care consulting firm ...
Alicia Coppola
You know Alicia Coppola from CBS’s Jericho, the only television show in a decade to be renewed aft...
Lew Cox
Lew Cox is the founder and executive director of Violent Crime Victim Services in Tacoma, WA, which ...
Veronica Crawford
Veronica Crawford is a writer, Reiki Practitioner and passionate animal welfare advocate. She has ex...
Dr. Edward Creagan
Edward T. Creagan, MD, FAAHPM, a cancer specialist, is the first Mayo Clinic doctor board certified ...
Mary Jane Cronin
Mary Jane Cronin is a licensed counselor with a private practice in Largo, Florida. She began her wr...
Dolores Cruz
Dolores Cruz is the author of two books. Look Around; A Mother’s Journey from Grief and Despair to...
Leigh Cunningham
In March 1979, Leigh Cunningham's 17-year-old brother, Paul, was killed in a motorbike accident. Aft...
Art & Allison Daily
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Art and Allison Daily are the authors of Out of the Canyon: A True Story of Loss and Love. Art is an...
Amy Daly
Amy Daly, MSW, LCSW, CT is the married mother of three children. After experiencing the death of her...
Kurmasheva Dana
Dana Kurmasheva is a writer, poet, speaker, and host of the Impromptu Stories podcast. Born in Kazak...
David Daniels
In memorium Co-Founder and Core Faculty Emeritus, David Daniels, MD enjoyed a long career as a cl...
Dr. Audrey Davidheiser
Audrey Davidheiser, MAT, PhD is a licensed psychologist in California, certified Internal Family Sys...
Carlos Davila
Carlos is a brand advocated for The Recovery Village....
Laura Davis
Laura Davis is the author of seven non-fiction books, including The Courage to Heal, Becoming the Pa...
Dr. Peggy DeLong
Dr. Peggy DeLong is a psychologist, known as The Gratitude Psychologist. She teaches people how to h...
Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn is the author of The Empty Room: Surviving Sibling Loss, a memoir and journ...
Linda Della-Donna
Linda Della-Donna is founder and director of http://www.griefcase.net. Griefcase is a nonprofit org...
Diane Dettmann
Diane's the author of two memoirs, Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow's Story of Love, Loss and Renew...
Megan Devine
Megan Devine is a licensed psychotherapist, writer, and teacher. In addition to her clinical experie...
Richard Dew
Dr. Richard Dew is a family practitioner in Oak Ridge, Tenn. His youngest son, Bradley, was 21 when ...
Laura Diehl
Laura Diehl, along with her husband, Dave, are the founders of GPS Hope: Grieving Parents Sharing Ho...
Anne Dionne
Anne Dionne’s world was turned upside down on May 5, 2001, when her 19-year-old son whom she adore...
Ken Doka
Dr. Kenneth J. Doka is a Professor of Gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Roche...
Fran Dorf
Fran Dorf, MA, MSW, is a poet, essayist, and author of three acclaimed novels, including Saving Elij...
Marta Dorton
A visual artist and writer residing in Lexington, Ky, Marta E Dorton creates vibrant, textured acryl...
Gabrielle Doucet
As a Registered Nurse and a person of Spirit, I have spent my last 11 years working with people on h...
Diana Doyle
Diana Doyle lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Peter, and her six-year-old daughter Dempsey. The...
Ken Druck
Dr. Ken Druck, Ph.D., a bereavement specialist with the San Diego-based Jenna Druck Foundation (JDF)...
Katie Duke
A graduate of Florida State University and Vermont Law School, Katie Joy Duke practiced social justi...
Lily Dulan
Lily Dulan is an MFT Psychotherapist with a masterʼs degree in Psychology and a Master of Fine Arts...
Christine Duminiak
Christine Duminiak has been in the field of spiritual bereavement support since 1998. She is a Certi...
Linda Duncum
In Memoriam June 21, 1959 - April 30, 2014 Linda was a resident of Alpine, Texas. Retired mili...
Guy Dusseault
Guy Dusseault who was born in 1955 is husband to Jo-Anne and father to Bill and Robert. Guy is a sel...
Diane Dyer
I am a co-founder of Light beyond Loss and the Executive Director. My professional experiences inclu...
Robin Edgar
Nationally known author and workshop facilitator Robin A. Edgar offers her reminiscence workshops fo...
James Einert
James Einert, ND, CH In 1995 I started on a quest to learn all I could about natural health. I s...
Annah Elizabeth
Annah is The Five Facets of Healing founder and creator of The Five Facets Philosophy on Healing, a ...
Mie Elmhirst
I was widowed in 2000 when I was 47 and Mike was 52. Our daughter was 7 years-old, and his daughter,...
Bobbi Emel
Bobbi Emel, MFT is a psychotherapist in Los Altos, Ca. Her own experience with grief after losing he...
Janice Ervin
Heeding a call to the service of others, Janice Ervin volunteered in the United States Army from 197...
Cheryl Espinosa-Jones
Cheryl Jones is a grief counselor and the host of Good Grief radio at VoiceAmerica. During her educ...
Ilana Estelle
Ilana was born with a disability she didn’t know she had until the age of 46, when something her m...
Teena Evert
Teena Evert is a licensed psychotherapist, board-certified coach, and healer who brings a deep level...
Paula Ezop
Paula M. Ezop is a spirituality commentary columnist. Her inspirational columns Following the Spirit...
Angelica Fajardo
Angelica G. Fajardo, M.A., is a Certified Thanatologist and Psychotherapist specializing in Grief Th...
Tony Falzano
Tony Falzano is an author, college professor and songwriter who resides in Rochester, New York. H...
Kelly Farley
Kelly Farley is a bereaved father that has experienced the loss of his two children over an eighteen...
William Feigelman
William Feigelman, PhD, is Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Nassau Community...
Lindsey Whissel Fenton
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Lindsey Whissel Fenton, MEd, CT (she/her) is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, international speaker,...
Ruth Field
Ruth E. Field has always wanted to help people. Inspired by her well-respected and beloved physician...
Barbara Ann Fields
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I was born and raised in Starkville, Mississippi, home of Mississippi State University. Although I l...
Maya Fleischer
Maya Fleischer is a trauma-informed coach and certified Compassion Key practitioner who guides peopl...
Dorothy Foltz-Gray
Dorothy Foltz-Gray has been a freelance writer and editor specializing in health, fitness, food, and...
Sandy Fox
Sandy Fox has won four finalist awards for her recent book "Creating a New Normal...After the Death ...
Barbara Francis
A dynamic Bible teacher, Barbara makes the scriptures come alive and excels at relating biblical pri...
Patsy Freeman
Patsy’s Bio Born in Dublin, Ireland, Patsy now lives in England. Initially, trained as a State Re...
John French
My name is John French. I was born in January of 1968. I own and operate a small remodeling company ...
Linda Freudenberger
I recently retired as an occupational therapist after working for Cardinal Hill Rehab Hospital for 2...
Norman Fried
Norman J. Fried, Ph.D., is director of psycho-social services for the Division of Pediatric Hematolo...
Colleen Friesen
Who is Colleen Friesen? I am a proud mother, a blessed wife, a blossoming daughter, a compassionate ...
Stephanie Frogge
Stephanie Frogge is a professional crime victim services consultant working with programs that assis...
Ceci Frost
I am born and raised in southern California, and I love it! I am a beach and hiking kind of girl. I ...
Pamela Gabbay
Pamela Gabbay, M.A., FT, was awarded the Fellow in Thanatology by the Association for Death Educatio...
Marcia Gaddis
Marcia Gaddis is the author of the award-winning book, When God Comes Near, published in 2010. She ...
Jane Galbraith
Jane Galbraith has lived in Burlington, Ontario for many years. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degr...
Janet Gallin
I was raised in the clear air of the Hollywood Hills in the days when pregnancy tests involved the...
Michelle Gallucci
I lost my dad in 2010. It was sudden. I have lost a lot of people in life and I'm only 18 years old....
Molly Gandour
Molly Gandour produced the Academy Award-nominated HBO doc Gasland. Her upcoming feature-length docu...
Diana Gardner-Williams
Diana Gardner-Williams is the mother of son, two early pregnancy losses and one stillbirth. Nearly t...
Genesse Gentry
Genesse Gentry is the author of two books of poetry, Stars in the Deepest Night - After the Death of...
Nancy Gershman
Memory artist and psychotherapist, Nancy Gershman creates pictures of memories you have (or wish you...
Ellen Gerst
Ellen Gerst is a Life Coach who specializes in grief and relationships, an author, and speaker. Wido...
Fran Gerstein
Fran Gerstein, MSW, LCSW is a psychotherapist and grief specialist. Grief from the Inside Out is an ...
Heidi Gessner
Heidi Gessner, MDiv, BCC, is an ordained United Church of Christ minister, life transition guide &am...
Andrea Gilats
Andrea Gilats is a Minnesota writer, educator, artist, and former yoga teacher who spent more than t...
Susan Gilbert & Suzanne Redfern
Suzanne Redfern (left) is the president of Redfern Ranches, Inc. Her thirty-two-year-old daughter di...
Chasity Glass
I grew up in rural Minnesota, not far from Lake Superior. I have a Minnesota accent on certain words...
Charles Glassman
Charles F. Glassman, MD, FACP, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Hobart College in Ge...
Howard Gluss
Howard M. Gluss, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Executive Coach, Educator, Author, and R...
Kim Go
I am an artist in the expressive, installation and performance arts. I write because of our share...
Stan Goldberg
Stan Goldberg is a Professor Emeritus of Communicative Disorders at San Francisco State University. ...
Linda Goldman
Linda Goldman has a Fellow in Thanatology: Death, Dying, and Bereavement (FT) with a Master of Scien...
Annette Gonzalez
Annette Gonzalez is a lifelong Floridian and was raised in West Tampa, a Latin neighborhood. As a ch...
Bonnie Goodman
Bonnie has over 30 years of personal and career counseling experience with children, teens, and adul...
Robert Goor
Robert Goor is a father, an author, a mathematician, a scientist and a teacher. He has been writing ...
Sally Grablick
Sally Grablick lost her son to suicide in 2002. Her road to recovery began by reading over 100 book...
Lori Grande
Lori Grande’s first career in addictions and HIV/AIDS social work has been followed by a career in...
Edward Gray
Ed Gray graduated from Cornell with a degree in mechanical engineering and earned his MBA while in t...
Sara Green
Sara Green is a wellness entrepreneur. Her passion for health began during her decade-long career i...
Catherine Greenleaf
Catherine Greenleaf is a non-denominational spiritual director and longtime member of the Associatio...
Sharon Greenlee
Sharon is a licensed counselor, author and consultant. For many years she has conducted seminars and...
Miriam Greenspan
Miriam Greenspan, M.Ed., LMHC, is a renowned psychotherapist, author, speaker, poet, and workshop le...
Jane Greer
Dr. Jane Greer is a nationally known marriage and family therapist in private practice for over twen...
Janet Grimes
Janet is the author of The Parent's Guide to Uncluttering Your Home, scheduled to be released early ...
Kelly Grosklags
Kelly Grosklags, LICSW BCD FAAGC is author of “A Comforted Heart: An oncology psychotherapist’s ...
Perry Grosser
I have never written before - I had no reason to. But now it is all I want to do. I find peace and c...
Ginny Grulke
Over 20 years ago, I began writing as an escape from the pressures of career and family. I have not...
Rebecca Guevara
It has been many years since my brother took his life, and the results can still be felt in our fami...
Debbie Haine Vijayvergiya
In July 2011 Debbie’s daughter, Autumn Joy, was stillborn. Since then Debbie has become a powerful...
Tom Hallman
New to writing, Tom finds great pleasure in the fact that others enjoy his words so well. A studen...
Randah Hamadeh
Randah Ribhi Hamadeh is the Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research and Professor in Family and ...
Anne Hamilton
Anne Hamilton is an NYC-based freelance dramaturg and the Founder of Hamilton Dramaturgy, an interna...
Jenny Hander
In 2005, Jenny Hander suffered the greatest loss a mother can endure—the loss of her child. Yet as...
Bradie Hansen
Bradie McCabe Hansen is a licensed psychologist- Master, who’s been in private practice for over t...
Shannon Harris
As a young bereaved mother, I had conflicting ideas on the grieving process. Alone in a sea of much ...
Joan Haskins
Joan Horsley Haskins, BS, MSW, CSW, lives in Salt Lake City Utah and has four children and eight gra...
Jennifer Hawkins
Jennifer’s diverse background includes swimming for the University of California at Santa Barbar...
Laura B. Hayden
Laura spent her childhood in Brooklyn, NY, and her teens in Enfield, CT, where she went on to teac...
Elizabeth Heineman
Elizabeth Heineman is the mother of one stillborn and two surviving children. Her memoir of her stil...
Linda Henderson
My name is Linda Henderson, and I am a retired nurse, an author, and a bereaved mother. On Dec. 20, ...
Michele Neff Hernandez
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Michele Neff Hernandez is the founder and executive director of the Soaring Spirits Loss Foundation....
Beth Hewett
Beth L. Hewett knows grief from personal experience, and she has a heart for those who grieve their ...
Lydia Hill
Lydia developed a passion for writing at a young age and has always been inspired by uplifting stori...
Clara Hinton
Clara Hinton has a burning passion to lend support to parents grieving the loss of a child. At the a...
Tarah Hipple
Tarah Hipple is an avid student of social work and cognitive behavioral therapy. She was a blog cont...
Larry Hirschhorn
Larry Hirschhorn lives in Philadelphia with his wife Marla Isaacs. He has one remaining son Daniel a...
Harriet Hodgson
Harriet Hodgson has been a freelancer for 43 years, is the author of thousands of articles, and 47 b...
Luellen Hoffman
Luellen Hoffman was an adjunct professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and has a s...
Heidi Horsley
Dr. Heidi Horsley is a licensed psychologist, social worker, and bereaved sibling. She co-hosts the ...
Elizabeth Horwin
Elizabeth attended Holy Family University and graduated from the University of Scranton where she ob...
Ligia Houben
Ligia Houben is a speaker and educator in the area of life transitions. She works with the bereaved,...
Sandra Toscano Huerta
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Sandra was born in Mexico and migrated to the United States as a young child. She grew up in Souther...
Linda Hunt
Linda Lawrence Hunt, Ph.D. is a freelance writer, and co-founder of the Krista Foundation for Global...
Maureen Hunter
In 2006, Maureen Hunter was working in a small country town in Western Australia. It was a day like ...
David Hurley
David Hurley's involvement in Bereaved Parents is unique since he would have been a stepfather to hi...
Mary Jane Hurley Brant
Mary Jane Hurley Brant, M.S.,CGP, is a practicing psychotherapist for 37 years who specializes in gr...
Katy Hutchison
Katy Hutchinson, the mother of fifteen-year-old twins, Emma and Sam, resides with her family in Vict...
Nina Impala
NINA IMPALA is a highly intuitive multifaceted individual. This she combines with professional educ...
Katherine Ingram
KATHERINE INGRAM, M.A., is a writer and soul coach living in Southern Oregon. She received her B.A. ...
Lisa Irish
Lisa Irish, MEd, MA, BCC incorporates her experience in chaplaincy, spiritual direction and her own ...
Jackie Keibler Jackie
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My name is Jackie Keibler. With many years of experience as a content manager and a blogger, I love...
Rosemary James
Rosemary V James is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University with a degree in occupational therapy....
Michelle Jarvie
Michelle Jarvie is an author, educator, and mentor from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She began her career...
Gary Jaworski
An international expert in nonprofit organizations, Gary D. Jaworski, Ph.D. is President of Children...
Tabitha Jayne
Tabitha Jayne is a leading expert in the field of grief and growth coaching, having first developed ...
Doris Jeanette
Holistic Psychologist, Dr. Doris Jeanette is the author of “Opening the Heart,” an emotional hea...
J. Shep Jeffreys
John Shep Jeffreys, Ed.D., F.T., is a licensed psychologist with a practice specializing in grief, l...
Jennifer Suki Jennifer
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Jennifer Otsuki, known in the kitchen as Chef Suki, a name meaning Beloved in Japanese, knows that f...
Anne Jennings
Anne began her career studying interior design in 1973 and became interested in Feng Shui after desi...
Marlys Johnson
Marlys Johnson is a cancer widow, author, speaker and blogger. A member of the Advanced Writers and ...
Monica Jones
Monica Jones is the founder of From Loss to Love, a Grief Transformation Teacher, Writer, Karuna/Rei...
Terry Jones-Brady
Terry Jones-Brady was born in Richmond, Virginia, but spent most of her childhood in Honolulu, Hawai...
Mary Joye
For the past ten years I have been a private practice Licensed Mental Health Counselor. I'm a Certif...
Amy K.L. Busch
Amy K. L. Busch is a life coach, a writer, and the founder of amybuschcoaching.com. When Amy lost he...
Susan Kaden
Susan’s experience: She has a bachelors from NYU school of education. She is a 2008 graduate of t...
Annie Kagan
I began writing songs when I was fourteen. At fifteen I was signed to a publishing and recording con...
Michelle Kaisersatt
Artist and author Michelle Kaisersatt embraces each day at her rural Minnesota studio, writing, desi...
Beryl Kaminsky
Beryl Kaminsky is the author of “Mending the Broken Heart: After Your Child Dies,” an audiobook ...
Robbie Kaplan
Robbie Miller Kaplan is a writer and trainer with an expertise in communications. She is the author ...
Kelli Karlton
Kelli Karlton is a wife and mother of three. On January 6, 2008, her life changed forever when her f...
Kathleen A. Paris Kathleen
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As an author and management consultant, Kathleen A. Paris, Ph.D., has assisted organizations over th...
Dr. Katie Eastman Katie
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Dr. Katie Eastman: Master Grief Coach, Compassionate Care Consultant, and Expert in Loss & Chang...
Jennifer Katz
Jennifer Katz was born and raised in South Florida along with a twin brother, a younger sister, and ...
R. Glenn Kelly
R. Glenn Kelly is an award-winning Author, Speaker, Grief and Business Coach, as well as a bereaved ...
Irene Kendig
Irene Kendig is an accomplished speaker, workshop facilitator, self-acceptance coach, and award-winn...
Abel Keogh
Abel is the author of the relationship guides Dating a Widower: Starting a Relationship with a Man W...
Lisa Khuraibet
Lisa lost her father in 1988 as he took his own life. She suffered for years with the memory of it. ...
Emily Kil
Emily Kil is the co-owner of Eco Bear Biohazard Cleaning Company – a company that provides biohaza...
Danny Mayson Kinder
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I am 52 years old. I was a portrait and wedding photographer but am now setting up "end of life phot...
Alicia King
Alicia King is the author of "Healing: The Essential Guide to Helping Others Overcome Grief and Loss...
Kimberly Kirby-Bass
Kim Bass is a Life and Grief Coach whose life journey lead her to the field of coaching after the de...
Kelly Kittel
Kelly Kittel is a fish biologist, an author and a mother. She’s had 13 pregnancies and has five li...
Allen Klein
Comedian Jerry Lewis has said that Allen Klein is “a noble and vital force watching over the human...
Laura Klouzek
Laura Klouzek and her husband live in rural Missouri. They are the parents of five children and gran...
Kim Knight
Widow’s Might is Kim Koeneman Knight’s first book. Kim holds as Master of Education in Office Ad...
Herb Knoll
Herb Knoll lost his wife, Michelle to pancreatic cancer on March 7, 2008. Knoll is a retired bank ex...
Gretchen Kodanaz
Gretchen Kodanaz is an arts professional at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a graduate student at...
Lori Koidahl
Lori Koidahl began writing when her mother was killed by a red light runner. She turned to journalin...
Kent Koppelman
Kent Koppelman earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Education and a Master’s degree in English ...
Deb Kosmer
Deb has worked at Affinity Visiting Nurses Hospice for ten years, the first two as a hospice social ...
Sarah Kravits
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Linda Wisniewski
Linda C. Wisniewski writes and teaches memoir workshops in Bucks County, PA. Her work has been publi...
Judy Wolf
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Becky Womack
Becky Womack is a retired teacher with an M.A. from the University of Mississippi and additional gra...
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