It is my passion to help hurting hearts

Learning to rise through grief’s despair, the work of unleashing your heart isn’t easy, only worthwhile. No one would choose to experience the grief you feel, and most won’t understand your emotions. But I do, personally, through decades of walking this path along with ongoing, intensive research.

You’re not alone, and you don’t have to face your grief alone. Yet it’s ultimately your individual, personal decision—your choosing to take a powerful journey to feel better – that is the essential element of you finally living beyond grief’s shadow.

More rural than regal, more practical

than preachy

And while I’m blessed to be where I’m at emotionally and spiritually today, I’ve not gotten here alone (and neither will you). This man you see here loved me when I didn’t yet love myself. Our kids and this family we’re raising in North Dakota continue to teach me daily—even more than the military my husband and I served, the childhood I survived after my father died when I was 8, the forgiveness I now feel for my mother I once thought impossible, the acceptance I now understand—that there’s more to our lives than the grief we endure.