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Support for how you care for yourself after loss. 

Research‑informed workshops, parenting support, and guided tools that help you find supportive ways to care for yourself 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.

It is exhausting to carry loss and still be expected to function as if nothing has changed.

You deserve support for the long after, not just the first year of grief.

  

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. 

 

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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 Parenting 

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 less overwhelmed, have more days that feel manageable, and care for your well‑being in ways that fit your daily life after the loss of a loved one.

Small changes in daily life

Making gentle adjustments to your routines and commitments so daily life feels a little more workable as you learn to live with loss.

 

 

 

Offer more care to your own well‑being

 

Noticing what you need with more compassion and clarity, and taking small, honest steps that honor those needs.

 

 

Become more intentional in your everyday life

Moving through your days with more purpose, showing up for yourself with greater care, and being more present with your children in a life that has been changed by loss.

Our Methodology

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.

01 · protect
Preservation
Guard your energy, your story, your memories — and the version of you that is still becoming.
02 · settle
Regulation
Bring your nervous system back to a window where you can feel without being depleted.
03 · source
Anchoring
Find your steady place in what you hold dearly and continue bonds with your loved one.
04 · choose
Agency
Reclaim small, daily choices to rebuild a sense that your life is still authored by you.
05 · reach
Connection
Allow yourself to reconnect with yourself, people, and the world around you.
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You were never meant to carry all of this alone.

When you are carrying loss, you can stay in survival mode for a long time—getting through daily life while feeling depleted and unsure how to care for yourself.

If you are parenting through loss, it can feel even harder to care for your children while carrying so much yourself.

Support can help you make small, steady changes so daily life feels more supported and a little less overwhelming.

Meet Dr. Mari 

We can learn to carry the love, the loss, and the life that follows

If you’re carrying the loss of someone you love, everyday life can feel much heavier than anyone else can see. You may be doing your best to keep up with work, parenting, relationships, and responsibilities in a world that has been deeply changed by loss.

You don’t have to figure out how to care for yourself in all of this alone.

Growth After Loss offers research‑informed workshops, parenting support, and guided tools that help you find supportive ways to care for yourself after the loss of a loved one. I offer gentle education, practical tools, and compassionate guidance to help you support your well‑being and find more steadiness in daily life as you live with loss.

My work draws on post‑traumatic growth research and lived experience, using a clear framework of five pillars—preservation, regulation, anchoring, agency, and connection—to give you structure and language for finding steadiness and direction while staying connected to the love you carry.

Learn More About Dr. Mari

PhD in Psychology focused research on post-traumatic growth after loss. 

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.

You don’t have to take this next step alone.

We are here to support you, wherever you are, as you take your next gentle step.

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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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