Tammy is a native New Yorker who normally lives in Kyiv, Ukraine, but is waiting out the war from a temporary base in London, UK. She recently oversaw the translation of the Grief Recovery Handbook into Russian and facilitated the training of the first group of 15 native Russian-speaking Certified Grief Recovery Method® Specialists in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Tammy first went through The Grief Recovery Handbook in 2007 on her own, after several stressfuls international moves, and the loss of sending her daughter away to university -- the beginnings of the empty nest. That experience opened her eyes to the many incomplete relationships and the accumulated, undealt-with grief in her own heart –- beginning with the early deaths of both her parents -- and to the tremendous amount of pain, from various types of losses, in people around her. Tammy went on to train to become an Advanced Grief Recovery Method® Specialist, offering private and group support services in both English and Russian, online and in person. She has been married for over 35 years, has two grown children and two grandsons. She is an ordained minister with the International Churches of Christ, a published author, experienced public speaker and fluent in English and Russian.