So I started over. From scratch.

Not by rushing forward, but by taking my life apart piece by piece and deciding what was worth carrying into what came next.

I went back to the fundamentals. Therapy when I needed to process the trauma. Coaching when I needed direction. Stronger boundaries. Hard decisions. Deep honesty. Rebuilding after loss isn’t about starting over cleanly. It’s about learning how to live again when nothing feels familiar.

But grief was not my first reconstruction.

Years before I lost my fiancé, I had already rebuilt my life once. In my early 20's, I struggled with an addiction that nearly destroyed everything. Getting sober required accountability, structure, and a willingness to take full responsibility for my life. Fourteen years later, that season remains one of my greatest teachers.

Addiction taught me how to take ownership of my life. Grief taught me how to endure without hardening.

Those two defining chapters shaped how I move through the world and how I guide other women today. They taught me that reinvention isn’t conceptual. It’s lived. It’s practiced. And it’s built one decision at a time, even when life has been irreversibly changed.

That lived experience is the foundation of everything I teach.

I am a certified Grief & Life Reinvention Coach working primarily with women whose lives were split by a defining loss, most often the death of a partner. I support women at the point where survival is no longer enough and a new way of living must be built.

I founded Life Interrupted Foundation to support individuals and families navigating sudden loss. I created This Is Her After for women ready to move forward, rebuild identity, and take responsibility for the life that comes next, without minimizing what they have lived through.

My work does not focus on revisiting the past or searching for closure. It is centered on learning how to live forward with grief present, making grounded decisions, and building a life that reflects who you are now rather than who you were before loss.

This work is lived, practiced, and applied every day, both in my own life and in the lives of the women I coach.

The Principles Behind the Process

• I stand for life after the loss of a partner. For women whose lives were divided into a clear before and after, and who are learning how to live in the space that follows.

• I stand for the belief that a full, meaningful, and joyful life is not only possible after loss, but it is allowed. That love does not end with death, and that choosing to live fully again is not a betrayal of what was lost.

• I stand for moving forward with grief present, not erased. For building a life that can hold both sorrow and happiness, memory and momentum, love and possibility.

• I stand for rebuilding identity, direction, and daily life in a way that reflects who you are now. Not returning to who you were before, but creating something honest, steady, and real.

• I stand for women who are ready to live again. To experience connection, purpose, desire, and joy without guilt or apology.

Because loss may change the shape of your life, but it does not have to define its limits.