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When life breaks you open, what comes next?

Resources and community to foster connection and courage after loss. Honest conversations for life's hardest moments.

Whether you're facing grief from death, divorce, job loss, or shattered dreams…

You don't have to figure out your "what now?" alone.

Here, we skip the empty platitudes and get real about rebuilding from whatever broke you.

Don’t move on. Move Forward

4 Ways to Rebuild Together

Co-Write with Me

Build a restorative writing habit into your real life. It’s not just one random session, but a continuous way to process the noise in your head and reconnect with yourself.

Get weekly prompts, accountability, and one live monthly session to write together.

Connect to Community

Connection is what heals. That's why I created this space. Lonely, unimportant, unseen. We're not meant to carry that alone.

Through writing groups, retreats, and community connection, I create space to foster connection and courage after loss.

Read My Writing

In addition to writing a memoir, I write a blog called Thoughts After Therapy. I focus on lessons from the work of unmasking. I share the hard truths and breakthroughs found in therapy while trading a decade of "zombie-ing" for a life of radical self-led reclamation.

Book Me to Speak

Spark meaningful conversations on grief, resilience, and growth with heartfelt keynotes that leave audiences inspired and connected. I share raw stories and practical steps to help listeners heal, rebuild, and find hope. Perfect for podcasts, workshops, or conferences.

But this space isn't really about my story.

It's about connection.

Connection is what heals. The connection I made with my therapist saved my life when I was drowning in the deepest depression, feeling completely alone and invisible. That single relationship brought me back to life.

In my darkest days, I wanted to end it all because I felt like I had absolutely no one.

Lonely, unimportant, unseen. We're not meant to carry that alone.

If someone can see themselves in my story — if my experience can be that one spark of hope that says "me too, and I made it through" — then this all means something and is so worth it.

Whether you're facing grief from death, divorce, job loss, or shattered dreams — you don't have to figure out what comes next alone.

That's why I created this space. When I'm not writing or speaking, I'm laughing through chaos with my kids.

Your story matters too.

Whether you're facing grief from death, divorce, job loss, or shattered dreams — you don't have to figure out what comes next alone.

That's why I created this space. When I'm not writing or speaking, I'm laughing through chaos with my kids.

Your story matters too.

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Write with Me

Reclaim Your Light: An 8-Week Grief Healing Journey

Gentle steps delivered straight to your inbox each week to guide you in recovering from loss, rediscovering joy, and rebuilding inner strength.

Room to Write: A Guided Writing Practice for High-Achievers Who Need an Outlet

Build a restorative writing habit into your real life. Get weekly prompts, accountability, and one live monthly session to write together.

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My Writing

Thoughts After Therapy

With each piece, I open a window into the lessons I’ve learned, the breakthroughs I’ve celebrated, and the challenges and hard truths I continue to confront after each therapy session ends.

These are words for what you're afraid to say out loud, permission to pause, and the reminder that you're not carrying it alone.

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Connect to Community

Whether you're facing grief from death, divorce, job loss, or shattered dreams… you don't have to figure out what comes next alone.

Your story matters too.

Through writing groups, retreats, and community connection, I create space to foster connection and courage after loss.

Book Helen for your next event.

Spark meaningful conversations on grief, resilience, and growth with heartfelt keynotes that leave audiences inspired and connected. I share raw stories and practical steps to help your listeners heal, rebuild, and find hope — perfect for podcasts, workshops, or conferences.

Book Helen for your next event.

Spark meaningful conversations on grief, resilience, and growth with heartfelt keynotes that leave audiences inspired and connected. I share raw stories and practical steps to help your listeners heal, rebuild, and find hope — perfect for podcasts, workshops, or conferences.