I lost my beautiful son, he was 31. For four years I was devastated and living with a broken heart. Initially I was unable to function but gradually I forced myself to put on a face and get back to work. I even acted like I was ok with my children, but it was all an academy award winning performance. Each moment of the day I carried my misery and broken heart through all my activities. I frequently said to my husband that I was just waiting to die. One night I had a fight with a girl at work. We did reconcile, but it was that night that I realized my act was no longer working for me. Nothing was working anymore. I'd come to the absolute end of pretending to be ok. When I got home, I typed the word grief in my search bar and found The Grief Recovery Method. I was intrigued.

Due to the fact that the founder of the GRM had lost his son, I decided to give it a go. I made the call, and soon after started a one-on-one process with my teacher Agnes. By the end of our third session, I noticed a very dramatic change. For the first time in four years, I experienced peace! I could smile! I heard myself laughing! To me these things were monumental. Close to the end of our sessions, just before I'd completed my lessons, I could feel that my broken heart had healed. I had never even dreamed that such a thing could happen. There's no way you can bury your child without living with a broken heart for the rest of your life, or so I believed. And yet as a result of this process I can now say that I am happy, I have peace, I feel joy and my heart is full. That’s what happened to me.

Professionally, I am trained and have worked in mental health counselling for decades. I completed my 200 RYT and taught Yoga in my community. Then answering to the call to become a nurse, at the age of 50 I went back to high school to be able to enter nursing school from which I graduated with high honours. I am still a practising nurse.

Since then, I trained to become a Grief Recovery Specialist so that I could help others who are suffering with loss and grief. With a long history of dedicated work to help people, I am now established on this path of service where I feel this is truly where I am supposed to be.