A message from Gina
After my husband Lew died from melanoma, I was thrown into a kind of grief I’d never imagined. It wasn’t just sadness — it was identity-shifting, soul-wrenching, world-tilting.

At first, I didn’t know what to do with the pain. I started writing about it online — just sharing honestly. And what I found was something unexpected: women everywhere were reading my story and saying, “That’s my story too.”

That’s how Grief and Me was born.

Why I Started This Work
I didn’t want to sit in a folding chair in a cold church basement labeled widow.
I didn’t want to pretend I was “moving on.”
I didn’t want pity. I wanted understanding.
And more than anything, I wanted growth — not instead of grief, but alongside it.

So I created a space for women like me — a free support group where widows can show up raw, real, and ready for something more than just surviving. And I offer one-on-one coaching to go deeper — because we’re not meant to do this alone.

The Tools I Bring
Before Lew passed, I was a certified Master NLP Practitioner — coaching others using the principles of Neuro-Linguistic Programming: the connection between what we say, what we believe, and how we live. I just never imagined I’d use those same tools to survive my own loss.

But now? They’ve become my lifeline.
And I use them to help other widows shift from:

“I’ll never feel whole again…”
to
“Maybe… just maybe… there’s still more life for me.”

What I Want You to Know
Grief doesn’t have one face. It doesn’t follow a script.
But there’s one truth I’ve clung to:

We don’t move on. We move with.

If you’ve felt like you’re outside God’s goodness…
If you don’t recognize the woman in the mirror anymore…
If your joy feels out of reach…

You’re not broken. You’re grieving.
And that doesn’t mean the end of your story.

Let’s find your voice again.
Let’s rediscover the woman who’s still here.
Let’s move — together — with the grief.