Grief Coaching · Retreats · Workshops
You Don't Have to Walk
Through This Alone
If you've found your way here, chances are your heart is carrying something heavy. The death of someone you love. A divorce. A diagnosis. A life change that pulled the ground out from under you. Maybe you've whispered the question so many grieving hearts whisper: Will I ever feel like myself again?
The light was never extinguished. It lives within your loss — waiting to be found. And you don't have to find it alone.
With Debbie — Certified Grief Coach · Certified Grief Yoga® Teacher · 14+ years companioning grieving hearts
Imagine...
What If the Weight Could Change?
- Imagine waking up and the weight, while still there, no longer crushes you.
- Imagine saying their name with a smile breaking through the tears.
- Imagine being in a room full of people who understand — no explaining, no pretending, no mask.
- Imagine your grief transforming — never disappearing, but slowly filling with gold, like the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where the broken places become the most beautiful part.
That's not wishful thinking. It is what I have watched happen, again and again, in the lives of hundreds of grieving people. And it can happen for you.
Schedule a Free Discovery CallIs This You?
Whatever You've Lost, You Belong Here
Grief doesn't only come dressed in black. It arrives in a hundred forms — and every single one of them is welcome at Loss Into Light.
The Death of Someone You Love
A spouse or partner. A child, at any age. A parent, a sibling, a friend. Whether your loss was last month or twenty years ago, your grief is real and your loved one matters.
The End of a Marriage or Relationship
Divorce is a death without a funeral — the loss of a partner, a future, an identity, a dream. No one brings casseroles, but the grief is just as real.
A Diagnosis or Health Change
Yours or someone you love. Grieving the body you trusted, the plans you made, the future you assumed.
A Major Life Change
Retirement. An empty nest. The loss of a career, a home, a community, a calling. When life as you knew it ends, grief walks in — even when the world calls it "a new chapter."
The Person You Used to Be
Sometimes the deepest grief is for ourselves — who we were before the loss, before the caregiving, before everything changed.
Here's What I Know About You Already
You've been strong for everyone else. You've kept it together at work, for the kids, for the family. People say "you're doing so well" — and they have no idea. You've probably tried to handle this alone, because that's what you do. And if you're honest, alone isn't working anymore.
Reaching out isn't weakness. It's the single bravest and smartest decision a grieving heart can make. You wouldn't set a broken bone by yourself. Your broken heart deserves the same care.
You don't need to be "bad enough" to deserve support. You don't need to justify your loss or compare it to anyone else's. If your heart is grieving — you qualify. Full stop.
Find Your Path ForwardA Different Kind of Healing
Why This Works When "Just Talking" Hasn't
Maybe you've already tried talking about your grief — and talking matters, deeply. But if you still feel the grief locked in your chest, your shoulders, your bones, you've discovered what I teach every grieving heart: grief doesn't just live in your mind. Grief lives in your body. And you cannot think your way out of something your body is holding. That's why Loss Into Light tends to your mind, your heart, your spirit — and your body.
Gentle Movement & Grief Yoga®
Simple, accessible movement to help grief flow instead of freeze. No experience needed, no flexibility required — everything can be done from a chair. If you can breathe, you can do this.
Breath & Sound
Grief makes us hold our breath and swallow our cries. Learning to breathe deeply and release sound is often the first sweet moment of relief a grieving body feels.
Somatic, Body-Centered Practices
Gentle techniques that help your nervous system soften, release the bracing, and finally feel safe enough to heal.
Sacred Conversation & Community
Being truly witnessed by someone who understands — and, in retreats and workshops, by a community that gets it without a single explanation.
Journaling & Creative Expression
Giving shape to what feels unspeakable, keeping memories safe, and tracking the light as it returns.
Remembrance & Ritual
Because healing never means leaving your loved one behind. It means learning to carry them forward, with love.
One Promise, Always
I will never ask you to "let go" of your loved one or "move on" from your loss. We release only the weight — the tension, the armor, the loneliness — so there's finally room for the love to move. Room for light.
One-on-One Grief Coaching
Walk This Road With Someone Who's Walked It
Some journeys need a private, personal guide. Someone who holds space just for you — your loss, your story, your pace, your heart. In one-on-one coaching you get exactly that: a trained, certified, experienced companion who has also lived profound loss herself. Not a clipboard across the room. A hand beside you on the road.
How It Works — Simple as 1, 2, 3
Schedule your free Discovery Call
A no-pressure conversation where you share what you're carrying and I share how I can help. Either way, you'll be received with warmth.
We create your personal pathway
Every grief is unique, so every journey is too — conversation, somatic practices, gentle movement, journaling, and ritual, woven for your healing.
You begin to find your light
Session by session. Never by forgetting — by learning to carry your loss and your love in a way that lets you live again.
How long have you been waiting to feel better? Six months? A year? Five years? Grief doesn't heal on autopilot — what we do inside the time does. The people who find their light aren't the ones who waited longest. They're the ones who decided, on some ordinary day, that they were worth helping.
Today can be that ordinary day.
Schedule Your Free Discovery CallSpaces for one-on-one coaching are limited — I keep my client list small so every heart gets my full presence.
Retreats & Workshops
Where Grieving Hearts Come Home
There is a moment I've witnessed hundreds of times, and it never stops moving me. A grieving person walks into a Loss Into Light gathering — shoulders tight, mask on, ready to explain themselves for the thousandth time... and then they look around the room and realize: everyone here understands. No explaining. No pretending. The shoulders drop. The breath deepens. For the first time in months — sometimes years — they exhale.
That exhale is where healing begins. And it's waiting for you.
What Happens at a Loss Into Light Retreat
This is not a lecture. Not a yoga retreat. Not a sad weekend of sitting in a circle crying — though tears are welcome, and so is laughter, and it comes more than you'd think. It is a gentle, guided sanctuary experience:
- Gentle Grief Yoga® and movement — accessible to every body, every practice optional, everything adaptable to a chair
- Breathwork and somatic release — helping your body finally let go of the bracing
- Sacred sharing circles — speak, or simply listen; both are honored
- Journaling and creative expression — giving your grief a voice
- Remembrance ritual — honoring your loved one or your loss in a way you'll carry forever
- A community that understands — many attendees leave with friendships that last for years
You arrive carrying it alone. You leave knowing you never have to again.
Why a Retreat Instead of Going It Alone?
Think about what you've already tried. Reading the books. Staying busy. Being strong. Waiting for time to work its magic. Now imagine instead: dedicated, protected time — away from the roles and responsibilities — surrounded by understanding hearts and guided by someone with the training and the lived experience to hold you safely through it. What can take years of white-knuckling alone can begin to shift in a single weekend of the right support.
You've spent so long taking care of everyone else. This is the space where someone finally takes care of you.
Can't attend in person? Ask about virtual workshops and the upcoming Loss Into Light online program — bringing this healing to you, wherever you are.
Meet Debbie
Why Walk With Me?
I don't teach grief from a textbook. I teach it from the road I've walked — including the loss of my beloved husband, and the long journey of finding my own light again. That lived experience is my most important credential. But it stands on a deep foundation of training and service:
- Certified Grief Coach — Transformation Academy
- Certified Grief Yoga® Teacher — Paul Denniston method
- 14+ years Chapter Leader, The Compassionate Friends of Tampa Bay
- Four-year Lay Pastoral Ministry certification
- Founder of a bereavement ministry
- Somatic, body-centered training woven through everything I offer
For over fourteen years, I've had the sacred honor of walking beside hundreds of grieving hearts. I've seen the darkest grief there is. And I have never once stopped believing in the light.
Read My StoryChoose Your Path Into the Light
Every Grief Is Unique — So There's More Than One Way to Begin
Walk With Me Privately
One-on-One Grief Coaching. Personal, private companioning at your pace — conversation, somatic practices, and gentle guidance tailored to your unique loss.
Schedule a Free Discovery CallGather With Hearts Who Understand
Retreats & Workshops. Immersive, gentle sanctuary experiences with movement, breath, ritual, and a community that truly gets it.
See Upcoming DatesFind Your Specific Grief Circle
Grief Circles. Small, 8-week circles built around the exact loss you're carrying — spouse, child, parent, divorce, betrayal, or traumatic loss.
Explore the Grief CirclesBegin From Home
Coming Soon
Online Programs. The Loss Into Light approach, brought to you wherever you are — healing on your schedule, at your pace.
Join the WaitlistFrom My Heart to Yours
If you've read this far, something in you is ready — even if it's small, even if it's scared. Honor that something. It's your light, and it's still burning.
You've survived what you thought you couldn't survive. Now let's do more than survive. Reach out today — I'll walk with you from there.
Take the First Step — Contact Debbie