Live & Grieve™ — Mission

Our mission is simple and deeply personal: to equip people to live and grieve at the same time.

Grief is not a problem to be solved or a season to “get over.” It is a reality that reshapes life forever. Too often, people are left to walk this road alone, feeling pressure to move on before they are ready or silence their pain for the comfort of others. At Live & Grieve™, we believe grief deserves steady acknowledgment, safe expression, and compassionate company.

We create spaces where loss is honored and carried together — spaces where people do not have to choose between grieving and living. Through a carefully developed system of participant workbooks, facilitator guides, training programs, and support groups, we offer tools for navigating the unpredictable journey of grief with honesty and hope.

Our mission is not to remove grief, but to help people carry it in a way that allows life to continue. We hold space for those who have lost loved ones, those living with secondary losses, and those who feel overwhelmed by the silence or misunderstanding of others. Every group, every guide, and every facilitator is shaped by three commitments:

To hold steady space that is consistent, safe, and welcoming.
To equip facilitators and communities with practical, trauma-informed tools.
To walk alongside people with compassion, offering hope that does not deny pain but helps to bear it.

Live & Grieve™ was born out of personal family loss. What began as a workbook became a movement. Our mission is to make sure no one has to walk through loss alone, and that every grieving person has access to resources and relationships that help them carry both love and sorrow into the future.

Live & Grieve™ — Vision

Our vision reaches beyond individual healing: we long to see a world where no one has to grieve alone.

Grief is a universal human experience, yet in modern culture it is often hidden, minimized, or rushed. Families and communities are rarely equipped to sit with grief in its full reality. The result is too many people suffering quietly, unsupported and misunderstood.

We envision something different. We see a network of facilitators and communities across towns, cities, and nations, where grief groups are as natural and available as any other kind of care. We imagine a future where grief is not met with silence but with compassion, not with pressure to move on but with steady reminders that love endures.

The vision of Live & Grieve™ is to build a movement of compassion through:

Groups that multiply. Small, local circles of care that spread across communities.
Facilitators who grow. Everyday people trained to lead, equipped with tools that are practical, evidence-informed, and shaped by lived experience.
Resources that last. Workbooks, guides, and training materials that remain timeless companions, adaptable for different contexts and communities.
A culture that shifts. From isolation to connection, from silence to honesty, from despair to a deeper kind of hope.

Our vision is not to create a quick-fix model or a rigid program, but to cultivate a way of being present to grief that is gentle, grounded, steady, and hopeful. Gentle in how we hold pain. Grounded in what is real and true. Steady in our presence across time. Hopeful in the sense that even in grief, life is not over — it continues, reshaped and redefined by love.

Live & Grieve™ began with a family’s heartbreak, but its vision extends outward: to transform pain into purpose, to create a legacy of support, and to ensure that wherever grief exists, compassionate community can be found.