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.
This is not just a workbook—it’s a sanctuary. A quiet place for the words you haven’t said, the tears you still cry, and the love that will never fade. Woven from years of clinical wisdom and deep personal grief, this 80+ page companion offers something rare: space to fall apart, and permission to begin again.
Each page holds an invitation:
To say the name you’re afraid the world will forget.
To make room for sorrow without shame.
To keep loving, even through the ache.
Here, you won’t be rushed. There are no stages to conquer, no finish line to chase. Only gentle prompts, grounding practices, and tender reflections that honor your way of grieving. Whether your loss is recent or long ago, raw or quietly lingering—this is a soft place to land.
This workbook is for you if:
You feel like the world moved on, and you’re still standing in the wreckage
You crave space to speak your grief without apology
You want to find your footing again—without leaving your person behind
Inside, you’ll find room to rage, to remember, to rest. To write down the things no one else understands. To carry your love forward, without letting go.
And because many grieve while still parenting, a special bonus section is included:
“Supporting Grief In Children”.
These pages offer tools to support your child’s grief gently and honestly, while honoring your own broken heart along the way.
Let this book hold the things the world won’t. Let it be a witness to your sorrow and a quiet reminder:
You are not alone.
Your grief is love.
And even here—especially here—you are still becoming.
This is more than a workbook. It’s a quiet companion for the nights when the world feels too loud, a tender guide shaped by years of clinical wisdom and deep human compassion. Within these 60+ pages, you’ll find space—real, sacred space—to exhale, to reflect, and to begin again.
Each journal prompt, each gentle exercise, is an invitation:
To feel without fear.
To honor your pain without apology.
To heal without hurry.
You won’t find rigid timelines or hollow advice here. Instead, you’ll uncover grounding practices, soul-stirring questions, and step-by-step support to help you understand yourself and reclaim your story — on your own terms.
This workbook is for you if:
You’re carrying pain that feels invisible to the world
You long for healing but don’t know where to begin
You want to move forward, but gently—without breaking the parts of you that survived
And for those walking the healing path while raising children, a special bonus section is included: “Raising Resilient Kids While Healing Yourself.” Thoughtful prompts and practical tools help you support your little ones emotionally—while nurturing your own growth along the way.
Let these pages hold you. Let them remind you:
You are not broken.
You are becoming.
Trauma Support Resource Collection — 3 Essential Tools for Healing ($19) Healing from trauma is not linear—and it’s not something you need to do alone.
This practical, powerful bundle of three trauma-informed resources is designed to help you build self-awareness, protect your peace, and take meaningful steps toward lasting healing. Whether you're just beginning your journey or have been doing this work for years, these tools meet you where you are.
Included in the bundle:
Age & Developmentally Appropriate Consequences (Includes Inner Child Work) — Understand how trauma may have shaped your development—and learn how to offer yourself (and your children) the accountability, care, and compassion you deserve. This guide supports you in parenting your children and reparenting your inner child, using a trauma-informed lens rooted in clarity, connection, and healing.
Setting Boundaries — Boundaries are not walls—they’re bridges to safety. This guide walks you through identifying your limits, creating strong boundaries, and maintaining them with confidence and grace.
Communicating Your Needs — Learn how to advocate for yourself without guilt or fear. This resource provides scripts, mindset shifts, and self-regulation tools to help you ask for what you need—clearly and compassionately.
Invest in Your Healing For just $19, you’ll receive lifetime access to these trauma-informed, expert-designed resources—each created to support your emotional safety, autonomy, and growth. If you're ready to shift from surviving to healing, this bundle is a beautiful place to begin.
Grief & Trauma Resource Bundle 12 Essential Tools for Healing After Loss and Trauma ($59) Whether you're grieving the death of someone you love, untangling the lasting effects of trauma, or both—this bundle was created for you.
The Grief & Trauma Resource Bundle brings together two powerful collections of tools that meet you where you are. These 12 expert-designed PDFs offer both emotional support and practical strategies to help you navigate the most overwhelming seasons of your life. From boundary-setting and emotional regulation to parenting through grief and closing an estate, these resources provide clarity, comfort, and guidance you can return to again and again.
Grief Support Resources Include:
Help Me! – A starting place for when you don’t even know where to begin.
Mindful Healing – Practices to help you ground and reconnect.
Closing an Estate – A practical checklist for the paperwork no one talks about.
Crafting a Memorial - To help you create a memorial for your loved one.
Supporting Children in Grief – Tips to care for little ones while grieving yourself.
Stupid Things People Say – Why those comments sting—and what to do with them.
Self-Care for Grief - How to care for yourself during this difficult time.
5 Things You Can Do With Your Grief Right Now – Fast care strategies for when you’re running on empty.
Dear Griever – A compassionate letter to remind you that you’re not alone.
Trauma Support Resources Include:
Age & Developmentally Appropriate Consequences (Includes Inner Child!) – Insightful guidance on trauma-informed parenting and healing internal wounds.
Setting Boundaries – Scripts and reminders to protect your peace and your progress.
Communicating Your Needs – Learn how to ask for what you need without guilt or overexplaining.
Why This Bundle?
Curated by professionals who’ve been there
No fluff—just tools that work in the real world
Printable and digital formats for easy use anytime
You don’t need to walk this road alone. For just $59, you’ll get lifetime access to 12 grief and trauma support tools to help you regulate, reset, and restore—at your own pace. This bundle isn’t here to tell you to “move on.” It’s here to help you move with your grief and trauma, and rebuild from wherever you are now.
The Light After: Grief Support Resource Bundle— 9 Essential Tools for Healing
Navigating grief can be overwhelming, but you don’t have to face it alone. This thoughtfully curated collection of eight essential grief resources is designed to provide comfort, guidance, and practical support at every stage of the healing journey. Each resource offers a unique approach to processing loss, promoting emotional well-being, and fostering resilience.
Resources Include:
Help Me! – A starting place for when you don’t even know where to begin.
Mindful Healing – Practices to help you ground and reconnect.
Closing an Estate – A practical checklist for the paperwork no one talks about.
Crafting a Memorial - To help you create a memorial for your loved one.
Supporting Children in Grief – Tips to care for little ones while grieving yourself.
Stupid Things People Say – Why those comments sting—and what to do with them.
Self-Care for Grief - How to care for yourself during this difficult time.
5 Things You Can Do With Your Grief Right Now – Fast care strategies for when you’re running on empty.
Dear Griever – A compassionate letter to remind you that you’re not alone.
Invest in Your Healing — For just $59, you’ll receive access to these compassionate, expert-designed resources. Take the next step toward peace and healing today.
