My Story

The path into this work began with my own brush with mortality. In 2016, I was diagnosed with HER2+ breast cancer. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey took my family's home. In 2018, after treatment and after the storm, my husband and I sold what we had and moved our family to Costa Rica, looking for a kind of living that felt purposeful instead of performed.

I gave birth to my son, a miracle baby, at home in April of 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic. Three months later, I lost my sister Erin. Grief took me apart, and then slowly and intentionally, put me back together. That is where my journey to becoming a death and grief doula began.

My writing, teaching, and presence are devoted to a single truth: grief is not a problem to solve, it is a practice to return to, and when we tend it with intention and community, something shifts in us and in the people who come after us.

I have been featured on CNN, CNBC, and The Tamron Hall Show. The CNBC feature on relocating to Costa Rica has received over 1 million views.