You might be right in the middle of it, still trying to understand how the rest of the world can keep moving when yours has so completely changed. You might be taking care of children, answering messages, making decisions, going to work, making dinner, doing all the things that still need to be done while carrying something that feels completely impossible.
Or maybe it’s been a while. Life has continued and, somehow, you’ve continued with it. The shock may have softened, but now you’re beginning to realize that surviving the loss of your person and knowing how to live inside the life that came after are two very different things.
Maybe you’re wondering who you are now. Maybe you miss the woman you were with them, or your body has been braced for so long you’ve forgotten what it feels like to soften. Maybe there are things you want again, and even wanting them feels complicated. Or maybe you can’t imagine a future at all yet.
You don’t have to.
I know something of this terrain because I have lived it. I know what it is to love someone deeply and have them die. I know what it is to have the life you thought you were living disappear with them. And I know something of the strange work that comes later too—the work of learning how to live again without feeling like living requires you to leave the person you love behind.
there are so many ways to be in grief.
You might be right in the middle of it, still trying to understand how the rest of the world can keep moving when yours has so completely changed. You might be taking care of children, answering messages, making decisions, going to work, making dinner, doing all the things that still need to be done while carrying something that feels completely impossible.
Or maybe it’s been a while. Life has continued and, somehow, you’ve continued with it. The shock may have softened, but now you’re beginning to realize that surviving the loss of your person and knowing how to live inside the life that came after are two very different things.
Maybe you’re wondering who you are now. Maybe you miss the woman you were with them, or your body has been braced for so long you’ve forgotten what it feels like to soften. Maybe there are things you want again, and even wanting them feels complicated. Or maybe you can’t imagine a future at all yet.
You don’t have to.
I know something of this terrain because I have lived it. I know what it is to love someone deeply and have them die. I know what it is to have the life you thought you were living disappear with them. And I know something of the strange work that comes later too—the work of learning how to live again without feeling like living requires you to leave the person you love behind.
This is the heart of my work.
I offer private virtual support for widowed women, both in the midst of grief and in the life that continues alongside it.
My approach brings together grief companioning, trauma-informed somatic work, attachment, parts work and embodiment. Because grief isn’t something that happens only in our thoughts. We carry it in our bodies, our relationships, our sense of safety, our identity and in the future we thought we were going to have.
Sometimes our work is about finding a little more room to breathe inside the grief. Learning to understand what your body is carrying, tending to the parts of you that are hurting, and finding ways to feel supported in a life that has changed so profoundly.
And sometimes it’s about what comes next. Rediscovering who you are, what matters to you, what you need and what you might want for yourself now. Making room for possibility without asking you to leave your love or your grief behind.
There is room here for both.
You don’t have to choose between honoring the life you had and being curious about the life you might still live.
Coming Back to Yourself
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Coming Back to Yourself
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Mindset And Blocks
Releasing old stories of unworthiness, self-sabotage, and resistance. We’ll gently reprogram limiting beliefs and open you to new possibilities, so you can move forward with clarity and courage.
Presence and Ritual
Creating daily rhythms that nourish your nervous system and anchor you in presence. From mindfulness to simple rituals inspired by nature, you’ll learn to slow down, soften, and root deeply into the moment.
Joy And Creative Expression
Welcoming back your lightness, creativity, and play. Together we’ll explore the practices and passions that make you come alive — allowing joy to be not just fleeting, but a way of living.
Living Your Truth
Stepping into your most authentic expression. This is where you stop waiting for permission, release the need to prove yourself, and embody the fullness of who you are — shadow, light, and everything in between.
When we made it back home, Back over those curved roads that wind through the city of peace, We stopped at the doorway of dusk as it opened to our homelands. We gave thanks for the story, for all parts of the story, Because it was by the light of those challenges we knew ourselves.
JOY HARJO
Our Work May Include
Finding Safety in Your Body
Finding Safety in Your Body
Finding Safety in Your Body
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Finding Safety in Your Body
Finding Safety in Your Body
Finding Safety in Your Body
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Finding Safety in Your Body
Finding Safety in Your Body
Finding Safety in Your Body
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Finding Safety
Coming Back to Yourself
Finding Safety in Your Body
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Finding Safety in Your Body
Coming Back to Yourself
Reconnecting with yourself after months or years of doing whatever needed to be done, and exploring who you are now, what matters to you and what you might need.
Understanding how grief and survival have shaped your nervous system, and gently creating more capacity for rest, connection, feeling and presence.
Making Room for Every Part
Learning to Trust Yourself Again
Meeting the different parts of yourself that grief has brought forward, including those that are hurting, protecting or simply trying to get through, while reconnecting with parts that may have gone quiet.
Rediscovering your needs, preferences, boundaries, voice and desires, and finding greater confidence in your ability to listen to yourself and make choices that feel like your own.
Making Room for More
Making Room for More
Allowing beauty, pleasure, creativity, sensuality and joy to exist alongside grief, without needing to feel better first or questioning what those experiences mean about your love.
Allowing beauty, pleasure, creativity, sensuality and joy to exist alongside grief, without needing to feel better first or questioning what those experiences mean about your love.
Imagining What Comes Next
Carrying Your Love Forward
Grieving the dreams that belonged to the life you shared, while gently becoming curious about what you might want, need or hope for in the life you’re living now.
Finding meaningful ways to remain connected to your person through memories, rituals, traditions and continuing bonds, allowing your relationship with them to have a place in your life as it continues to unfold.
A deep and transformational private coaching journey for the woman who’s ready to return to herself.
For the woman who’s ready to release old patterns and self-limitations, reclaim her feminine essence, and awaken the wisdom within her body. Together, we’ll use somatic healing, parts work, and soulful guidance to integrate what has been holding you back, embody your wholeness, softness and power, grief and joy, and step into the fullest expression of who you are. This is about creating a life that feels safe, aligned, and deeply desired.
Held
Private 1:1 Somatic Grief Companioning
Held is a private space to bring all of what comes with losing someone you love. The missing, the memories, the anger, the fear, the numbness, the questions, the grief waves that seem to come from nowhere, and the things you may not know how to say to anyone else.
This is a place to be heard, seen and understood in your grief. To speak their name and tell the stories, to make room for what you’re feeling, and to tend gently to what grief is asking your body to carry. There is nothing you need to fix here, and we’ll meet it, together.
Held includes four 50-minute private sessions held virtually, creating a consistent place for you to return to as your grief changes and unfolds. Sessions can be held weekly or biweekly, with private voice messaging between sessions so you have somewhere to bring what comes up along the way. You have the option to continue for another four sessions for as long as you need this kind of support, so you never have to feel like you’re navigating any of this alone.
Package cost: $600
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Held
Private 1:1 Somatic Grief Companioning
Held is a private space to bring all of what comes with losing someone you love. The missing, the memories, the anger, the fear, the numbness, the questions, the grief waves that seem to come from nowhere, and the things you may not know how to say to anyone else.
This is a place to be heard, seen and understood in your grief. To speak their name and tell the stories, to make room for what you’re feeling, and to tend gently to what grief is asking your body to carry. There is nothing you need to fix here, and we’ll meet it, together.
Held includes four 50-minute private sessions held virtually, creating a consistent place for you to return to as your grief changes and unfolds. Sessions can be held weekly or biweekly, with private voice messaging between sessions so you have somewhere to bring what comes up along the way. You have the option to continue for another four sessions for as long as you need this kind of support, so you never have to feel like you’re navigating any of this alone.
Package cost: $600
you don't have to carry it all alone.
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Reawaken
Private 1:1 Support for Life After Loss
This is a place to find your way back to yourself and slowly make room for what comes next. To tend to the parts of you that have been living in survival, create more space for quiet and connection with yourself, and begin listening again for your own needs, desires and dreams. Together, we’ll explore what you want your days, relationships and life to feel like now, and begin taking small, meaningful steps toward creating it.
This isn’t about starting over, and it isn’t about leaving the life you had behind. The person you love gets to come with you. Their love, their stories, the life you shared, all of it can have a place in the life you are creating now. You can miss what was and still want what might be. You can carry them with you and keep becoming. There is room for both.
Reawaken includes two private 50-minute virtual sessions per month over four months, giving us time to stay with this work as you begin finding your way into the life that is here now. Between sessions, you’ll have private voice messaging support, along with personalized practices, journaling and self-inquiry to help you keep listening to yourself, noticing what is shifting, and bringing what we explore together into the way you actually live.
Package Cost: $1,200 | Payment plan: 4 monthly payments of $300
Tend
Private 1:1 Two-Hour Somatic Grief Companioning Intensive
Tend is an extended two-hour session for the moments in grief that need a little more time and space. Maybe an anniversary, birthday or milestone is approaching, there’s a part of your story you want more room to explore, and for those who are not able to meet weekly or biweekly.
This is unhurried time to slow down, listen to what your body is holding, and gently tend to whatever is here. You don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what you need. Bring whatever is present, and we’ll give it the time and space it needs.
Two-hour virtual session: $320
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Retreats
Intimate, Restorative Gatherings for Widowed Women
I’m dreaming up intimate retreats for widowed women because there is something different about being in a room with women who don’t need the backstory explained. Women who understand what it is to love someone who is no longer physically here and what it means to keep living while carrying that love with you.
I imagine these as beautiful, spacious experiences with room for grief and for everything else too – rest, nature, beautiful meals, embodiment, conversation, quiet, laughter, connection and time to hear yourself again.
Coming Soon. Click below to join the waitlist.
You Don’t Have To Know Where To Begin.
You don’t need to know exactly what kind of support you need before reaching out. Maybe you need somewhere to be held in what you’re carrying. Maybe you’re ready to begin imagining what comes next. Maybe you’re somewhere in between.
Book a complimentary 20-minute call and tell me a little about where you are. We can talk about what you need right now and whether Held or Reimagine feels like the right place to begin.
Let’s talk.
“The thing that stuck out to me immediately about Lauryn was the way she listened and deeply heard me.”
– JESSICA D
INTERNAL SAFETY
Grief doesn’t live only in our thoughts. It can change the way we experience our bodies, our emotions, our relationships and the world around us. Together, we might explore how your nervous system has adapted to loss, the survival responses that have helped you get through, and what your body may still be carrying. Through gentle somatic practices, embodiment and nervous system education, we can begin creating more capacity for rest, connection, feeling and presence. Not by forcing yourself to feel safe or calm, but by discovering what helps you feel more supported in your body and your life.
COMING BACK TO YOURSELF
When so much of your identity was woven into a life shared with someone else, losing them can leave you wondering who you are now. We might explore the different parts of yourself that grief has brought forward, the parts that have worked so hard to keep everything going, and the parts that may have gone quiet along the way. Through reflection, self-inquiry and embodied exploration, we can begin reconnecting with your needs, preferences, boundaries, voice and desires. Making room to rediscover what matters to you, what feels like you, and what it might mean to trust yourself again.
CONNECTION WITH OTHERS
Loss changes more than one relationship. It can shift how you experience family, friendships, parenting, intimacy and your sense of belonging. We might explore how grief has shaped your attachment patterns, your experience of closeness and separation, and the ways you protect yourself or reach for connection. There can also be space for the complicated experience of dating, partnership or loving someone new, if and when that becomes part of your story. All while honoring the relationship you continue to have with the person who died, finding meaningful ways to carry their
MAKING ROOM FOR LIFE
There may come a time when you begin to wonder what else might be possible for you. Or perhaps you’re not there yet. Either way, there’s no timeline or expectation. We might explore the dreams that belonged to the life you shared, the future you imagined, and the grief of knowing that some of those things will never be as you hoped. Alongside that, we can gently make room for curiosity about the life you’re living now. For beauty, pleasure, creativity, sensuality, joy and possibility. For discovering what you want, imagining what might come next, and taking small, meaningful steps toward a life that feels increasingly like your own.
Our Work Might Include