The Day Everything Changed

On March 31, 2023, the world didn’t stop spinning — but mine did.

Three weeks before our wedding, I lost my fiancé, Scott. One moment we were planning final details — writing vows, choosing table settings, talking about the playlist — and the next, I was staring into a future I didn’t choose. A future without him in it.

The shock was so total, I forgot how to breathe. My hands shook endlessly. Time became meaningless. I kept thinking this had to be a mistake. He was just here. Laughing. Texting me. Dreaming with me.

And then he wasn’t.

People talk about heartbreak, but they don’t talk about what it feels like when your heart is ripped out entirely. Or what it's like to go home to a closet full of his clothes and a calendar that still says “wedding day.”

This was the moment my life changed forever — and the moment Life Interrupted was born.

Not because I wanted to start a nonprofit.
Not because I had a grand vision or a business plan.
But because I knew what it felt like to be drowning — emotionally, financially, spiritually — and I didn’t want anyone else to go through that alone.

Life Interrupted Foundation began as a way to meet people in the chaos of sudden loss. To help them pay rent when the bills didn’t stop. To cover funeral costs when there was no life insurance. To offer grief counseling when the world expected them to be “okay.” It was built from my pain, yes — but also from my love. For Scott. For myself. For everyone who’s ever had to bury a dream and somehow keep waking up anyway.

But as the months passed… something else began to stir in me.

A question: What happens next, after survival?
What about the woman who’s still here, barely breathing but ready to try?
Where does she go when she wants more than just to survive — when she wants to feel alive again?

And that’s where Beyond Our Goodbye was born.

This isn’t just a brand or a business.
It’s a next chapter — for me, and maybe for you too.
A place where we talk honestly about grief… but also about joy, about dating again, about building a life that doesn’t erase the person you lost — but honors them by choosing to live fully.

Because I didn’t know how to keep living.
But I wanted to try.

And now, I want to walk with you as you try too.