About the Founder

Certified Coach and Lived Experience

Hi, I’m Mandy, a certified grief coach who walks alongside individuals navigating the painful terrain of loss as well as personal development. My approach is rooted not just in training but in lived experience—I lost my spouse to cancer just seven months after the diagnosis.

Shattered and Searching

Sorting Out the Sorrow

Healing Doesn't Mean Moving On

Over time, with support, reflection, and a lot of grace from family, friends, and Toni at Master Grief, I began to heal. I learned that grief doesn’t go away—but we can learn to carry it, to grow around it, and eventually, to find meaning again. I know that healing doesn’t come from quick fixes or forced positivity. It begins when someone is willing to sit with you in the silence, the sorrow, and the not-knowing, or however your grief shows up in that moment.

Why Grief is Messy Was Born

Now, I help others move through grief and toward healing. Let’s face it, we all have grief. If there has been a death of something or someone, you have experienced grief. That experience didn’t just change me—it reshaped everything I thought I knew about grief, healing, and identity. Grief Is Messy was born from that place.

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Who I Work With

I support people who are navigating grief in all its forms—death of a loved one, divorce, life transitions, identity loss, and the quiet griefs no one talks about. Many of my clients are high-functioning on the outside but silently overwhelmed on the inside. You might be:

Mourning someone or something others don’t fully understand
Feeling like you’re stuck while the world keeps spinning
Wondering who you are now that everything has changed
Wanting to find purpose again—but unsure how

You Are Not Broken

You are not broken. You are grieving—and that deserves care, not correction.