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Small, Doable Steps to Care for Yourself After Loss.
Research-informed workshops, parenting support, and guided tools to help you support your well-being, make intentional choices, and move through daily life with more steadiness after the loss of a loved one.
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Life after loss still asks a lot of you.
You may be trying to work, parent, care for others, and keep up with daily life while your energy feels thin and everything feels harder than it used to.Â
It is exhausting to carry loss and still be expected to function as if nothing has changed.Â
You deserve support for the long after, not just the first year of grief.
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Wherever you are today, there is a gentle place to begin.
Choose the kind of support that fits what you need right now, whether you are looking for structured guidance, a steady starting place, or support for your family.
Growth After Loss Membership
For bereaved adults who want structured support, research-informed workshops, and ongoing guidance for daily life after loss.Â
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Gentle Steps for Growing Around Grief
For those who want a gentle place to begin. Use this 90-day workbook to take small, steady steps toward caring for yourself after loss.
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Resilient ParentingÂ
For caregivers supporting children after the death of a parent or central caregiver. Get practical, research-based tools to help you feel more steady and build stronger family bonds.
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What this support can help with...
Over time, this kind of support can help you feel more held in daily life, steadier on hard days, and more intentional about how you move through what’s ahead.
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Small supportive changes in daily life
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Making gentle adjustments to routines and commitments so daily life better supports your capacity as you learn to live after loss.
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More care for your own well-being
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Noticing what you need with more compassion and clarity, and taking small, honest actions that honor those needs.
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More intention for the present and the road ahead
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Bringing more choice into how you move through your days, how you show up for yourself, and how you care for your children in a life changed by loss.
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The Five Pillars of Growth After Loss™
The Growth After Loss framework is organized around five pillars that help you care for yourself, make decisions, and practice more steadiness in your life after loss.
Meet Dr. MariÂ
We learn to carry the love, the loss, and the life that follows
When you are carrying loss, everyday life can feel heavier than anyone else can see. You may be trying to keep up with work, parenting, relationships, and daily responsibilities in a world that has been changed by loss.
Growth After Loss offers research-informed support for living with loss. Through gentle and research-guided education, practical tools, and compassionate guidance, Dr. Mari Marquez helps bereaved adults care for themselves, strengthen daily functioning, and begin finding more steadiness and direction after loss.
As a post‑traumatic growth researcher and educator, Dr. Mari’s work is rooted in helping people move from reactive survival toward more intentional agency, one gentle step at a time.
Her work brings together research and lived experience to offer clear, step‑by‑step integration frameworks—rooted in five pillars of preservation, regulation, anchoring, agency, and connection—that help you find more steadiness and direction after loss while staying connected to the love you carry.
PhD in Psychology focused research on post-traumatic growth after loss.Â
Certified in Resilient Parenting for Bereaved Families through the ASU REACH Institute.
Creator of the Five Pillars of Growth After Loss framework and experienced facilitator supporting bereaved families.
Growth Notes
A candid letter, twice a month.
Short, honest notes from the long middle of grief—practices, reflections, and the occasional permission slip. No pressure, no performance.
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