THIS IS HER AFTER
Emmy Sass
How I went from “he's gone” to “I'm still here"
I didn’t plan this life.
Three weeks before our wedding, my fiancé died unexpectedly. One minute, we were finalizing seating charts and playlists. The next, I was canceling the biggest day of our lives and trying to survive the kind of heartbreak that guts you from the inside out.
I lost more than just the man I loved. I lost the version of myself I had built my future around. My career fell apart. My income vanished. I had to rehome two of my dogs. Friends disappeared. I questioned everything — who I was, what I believed, what I wanted, if I even wanted to keep going.
That’s what grief does. It doesn’t just break your heart — it breaks your life.
And for a while, I was just surviving.
I did what I had to do: I cried, screamed, shut down, numbed out, kept going, collapsed again. Nothing felt okay — and everyone around me seemed desperate for me to be “better.”
But I wasn’t interested in being better. I wanted to be real. I wanted to feel. I wanted to rebuild a life that actually fit the woman I was becoming — not the one people expected me to be.
And so I started over. From scratch.
Therapy, coaching, bodywork, business shifts, boundaries, letting go, letting it all fall apart — I gave myself permission to grieve fully and rebuild slowly. Not perfectly. Not on a timeline. But with truth, with intention, and eventually, with joy.
Now I help other women do the same...
This work is deeply personal to me. It’s not just what I do. It’s what I’ve lived.
I’m a certified grief, relationship and empowerment coach — and I specialize in walking with women through the messiest seasons of their lives —Partner loss, divorce, identity collapse. The moments when everything changes and nothing feels familiar anymore.
I created This Is Her After to be the space I wish I had. Not a place for fixing or bypassing — a place for becoming.
Because healing isn’t about getting over it. It’s about learning how to live with it — and still create something beautiful, something honest, something real.
who I am officially...
Founder and CEO of Life Interrupted Foundation, supporting individuals after sudden loss
Certified Grief, Relationship + Empowerment Coach
1:1 Personal Coach + Course Creator + Identity Architect
A woman who has lived through it — and decided to rise anyway. Unapologetically alive.
ARE YOU READY TO LIVE FULLY?
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