A Trauma-Informed Platform for Living With Loss
Grief On Purpose is a comprehensive grief support platform offering a variety of resources for people navigating life after loss. It provides courses, journals, downloadable tools, a Substack group, a book, and a podcast, all focused on grief education, support, and personal growth.
How Grief On Purpose Supports You
Honor your grief – A space where your emotions don’t need to be explained or fixed
Access practical resources – Guided courses, journals, and downloadable tools to support reflection and healing
Engage with community – Join the Substack group to connect with others who understand your experience
Explore multiple formats – Learn and reflect through the book, podcast, and interactive materials
Trauma-informed guidance – Strategies and insights for navigating grief in a safe, compassionate way
The Approach
Grief On Purpose is designed to provide accessible grief support and education nationwide. It emphasizes living fully alongside grief, fostering resilience, insight, and connection through a wide range of resources, educational content, and community engagement.
Grief on Purpose
As 2025 ended, I found myself reflecting on what Grief On Purpose had grown into over the past five years.
What began as a way to offer honest, compassionate grief support to others slowly became part of my own evolving relationship with grief. This work has shaped me as much as I’ve hoped it might support others. Along the way, my understanding of grief—and of myself—has deepened in ways I never could have planned.
As meaningful as this work continues to be, I’ve come to recognize that maintaining an active presence on social media and keeping up with ongoing marketing no longer supports my mental health or creative capacity. For that reason, I’ve chosen to step back from those rhythms for the foreseeable future.
What hasn’t changed is the heart of Grief On Purpose.
All of the resources created over the years (podcast episodes, blog posts, courses, journals, and downloadable materials) remain here and available. My hope is that they continue to offer steadiness, language, and companionship to those navigating grief.
The Grief On Purpose Story
Grief Downloads & Services
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The Light After: Navigating Grief After The Death Of Your Partner
This is for you if you can’t imagine a future without them.
If you feel stuck in the thick of it—but some part of you still wants to understand this grief, to feel it differently, to live inside it with more clarity, more breath, more truth. -
The Light After: Navigating Grief After the Death of Someone You Love
The Light After is for you if life split open—and you’ve been standing in the after, unsure how to go on.
Maybe it’s been weeks. Maybe it’s been years. Either way, nothing anyone has said has really touched the depth of it. The advice doesn’t land. The world moved on—and you’re still here, holding the pieces. -
The Light Within: Healing After Trauma
The Light Within is for the ones who sense that something’s not quite right—even if they don’t have a name for it.
Maybe you call it trauma. Maybe you don’t. You just know that something in you feels off—disconnected, flattened, like you’ve been living behind glass.
But now, something in you is asking for more. -
Journals
Grief and Trauma Journals That Actually Get It
These aren’t “just write three things you’re grateful for” kind of journals.
They’re raw, real, and made for the days when you don’t know what to do with all you’re carrying.Rooted in over a decade of trauma-informed clinical work, each journal is packed with guided prompts, reflection questions, and practical action steps to help you move through grief or trauma at your own pace.
Whether you're navigating fresh heartbreak or untangling what’s been buried for years, these journals are a place to begin—again and again.
No pressure. No platitudes. Just pages that can hold what others can’t.
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Grief On Purpose - The Podcast
Changing the Conversation of Grief and Trauma
A podcast for when grief is loud, trauma is triggering, and you're tired of pretending you're fine.
Hosted by a therapist who's lived the loss and asked the hard questions, Grief On Purpose - The Podcast is a space for honest, unfiltered conversations about what it means to live through the unimaginable.
Each episode offers real stories, trauma-informed insight, and a gentle refusal to sugarcoat the truth. Whether you’re fresh in your grief, deep in healing, or just looking for something real—this is for you.
Because our grief deserves more than silence.
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The Yoga of Grief: Finding Calm Through Ancient Wisdom
Informed by historical and philosophical perspectives on yoga, this volume offers a holistic framework for calming the mind and finding steadiness in the depths of grief.
Laura applies lessons from her career as a licensed therapist and yoga instructor.
Each chapter introduces accessible practices that emphasize reflection, regulation, and reconnection. Intended for individuals experiencing grief as well as those supporting others through periods of loss, the book reframes grief as a site of transformation rather than closure, offering thoughtful integration of yoga philosophy and contemporary approaches to healing.
