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Looking back over the past 30 years I’ve been exploring alternative ways to learn, grow, and heal from loss most of my adult life. During that time I’ve lost my marriage through divorce, gone through several job transitions, and experienced the death of several friends, a brother, son-in-law, clients and both parents.
Some losses have stopped me in my tracks while others have moved me to walk with others. From my loss experiences I’ve learned how each loss is different and triggers a variety of grief responses. That awareness has led me to utilize a wide range of tools, strategies and approaches that accommodate individual styles of coping with transition and loss.
For over ten years I facilitated a weekly grief support group, trained peer helpers to support those in transition, led a recovery seminar for families in divorce and began speaking to grief groups. In the 80s and 90s I completed hundreds of hours of trainings, classes and graduate work around change, loss, bereavement, and personal growth.
Over the years I’ve conducted seminars, workshops, groups and coaching sessions that helped thousands of men and women through loss, transition and new ventures. I’ve addressed audiences at churches, community education, nonprofits, and corporations including the State of Minnesota, Lutheran Brotherhood, American Express, The State Attorney General’s Office and 3M to name a few.
At the community level, I’ve addressed nonprofit leaders after 9/11, volunteered at Pathways Minneapolis and spoken to many grief groups. The recent death of several clients has heightened my interest in end of life issues, and I am now a Hospice volunteer.
When I moved into coaching in the 90s I became the first woman in Minnesota to be certified as a Personal Professional Co-Active Coach. Blending my experience with grief, transition and personal growth has evolved into my unique approach of literally and figuratively walking clients through transition and loss to what’s next.
Think of me as a companion on your journey.
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