Healing Heartwork

I’m a Certified Grief Educator trained by David Kessler. Having lived through loss myself, I now serve as a guide and companion to people navigating loss, helping them understand their grief and build a meaningful life that honors their loved ones.

I provide unique, creative, art-based experiences that support reflection, emotional awareness, meaning-making, and personal insight. My work is educational and supportive in nature and does not include diagnosis or treatment of mental health conditions. When deeper clinical care is needed, I refer clients to licensed professionals.

The Quiet Reasons Our Hearts Need Healing

A loss.
A diagnosis.
A goodbye we weren’t ready for.
A new chapter in life that seems foggy.

But more often, the need for healing is quieter than that.

It lives beneath the surface of our days… woven into the way we keep going, the way we carry more than we say, the way we move forward without always pausing to feel. Because our hearts don’t only break in visible ways. They hold the unseen, too.

The Many Ways We Carry

They need care when stress becomes a constant companion when we are always managing, organizing, showing up… without enough space to release.

They need gentleness when emotions go unspoken when we tuck them away to stay strong, professional, or “okay.”

In seasons of transition, even the beautiful ones, there is always something being let go. And letting go, in any form, asks something of the heart.

For those who care for others as professionals, as family, as friends the weight can be even deeper. To love and support others so fully often means
we quietly set aside parts of ourselves.

Sometimes, it’s not one big moment at all. It’s the accumulation.

The small hurts. The unprocessed experiences. The stories we’ve carried without ever setting them down.

And sometimes… it’s simply the feeling of being disconnected from our own inner voice.

That quiet question rising up: Is this how I want to be living? What do I need now?

There Is Nothing Wrong With You

It means you’ve been living.
It means you’ve been caring.
It means you’ve been carrying.

And no one is meant to carry it all alone.

A Different Way to Tend to the Heart

With color.
With movement.
With allowing something inside of you, to take shape outside of you.

This is the focus of Healing Heartwork.

A gentle, creative space where you don’t have to explain everything you simply begin.

Through practices like Soul Mapping, creating a Field Guide to Living and the Healing Heartwork monthly mixed media journal subscription, we create space to explore what we’ve been holding… to give form to emotions, experiences, and inner knowing in a way that words alone sometimes cannot. There is no right way to do it. No expectation to be “artistic.” Only an invitation to be honest. To be curious. To be present with yourself.

An Invitation

Whether through a Healing Heartwork workshop or a Soul Map experience, this is a space to gently return to yourself.

To listen. To create. To tend to your heart in a way that is both grounding and freeing.

Because your heart doesn’t need fixing. It simply needs space to be held and permission to be seen.

Personal drawings and journaling for focused heart healing.