Through the Tears Life Coaching

08/31/2026

Grief support for the loss of a spouse or partner. 🤍

The Next Chapter Grief Circle is a biweekly, in-person grief support group in Chester, NJ for widows, widowers, and anyone grieving the death of a spouse or partner.

Whether your loss is recent or years ago, this is a welcoming space for connection, understanding, and support as you navigate life after loss.

🌿 Biweekly Mondays beginning September 14
🕕 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
📍 530 Main Street, Suite 4B, Chester, NJ
💛 $40 per session or $75 monthly
📝 Registration required

📞 908-509-4772
📧 [email protected]

LifeAfterLoss BereavementSupport ChesterNJ MorrisCountyNJ

Providing compassionate and caring life and grief coaching services. To help facilitate healing, connection, and hope to all those I work with in a safe and understanding environment.

08/30/2026

Check out the article that I wrote for this months issue in Natural Awakenings Magazine:

https://throughthetears.com/blog/f/inner-balance-honoring-grief-without-losing-yourself

08/17/2026

It's been 11 years today since my husband, Manny, crossed over to the other side.

I think about how much I have grown and changed in that time. How much I have had to grieve, navigate, rebuild, and figure out along the way. The road has been incredibly bumpy at times. There have been days when I didn't know what to do, where to turn, or how I was going to keep moving forward.

But somehow, I did.

And through it all, I have continued to feel that Manny is still with me in spirit—watching over us, guiding us, and reminding me that love doesn't simply disappear when someone dies. Just yesterday, I saw so many cardinals, and those little moments still make me smile and feel connected to him.

Grief has taught me so much.

It has taught me resilience. It has taught me how to adapt to a life I never asked for and how to slowly accept things I desperately wished I could change. It has taught me how to feel deeply rather than run from what hurts.

And perhaps one of its greatest gifts has been teaching me how to sit beside someone else in their pain.

My journey through losing my husband has not been an easy one, but the growth that has come from it has been exponential. My capacity to understand another person's grief—to sit with them in the muck, without trying to fix it or rush them through it—is one of the ways I have been able to make meaning from something that changed my life so profoundly.

Every time I can understand someone else's grief a little more deeply, every time I can help someone feel less alone in theirs, a little more meaning is created from my own.

I would never have chosen this road.

But I can honor what it has taught me and what I have chosen to do with everything I have lived through.

11 years. ❤️

Manny, you are still a part of my story. And in so many ways, you are still a part of the work I do in this world.

05/25/2026

GriefHealing BereavementSupport HealingAfterLoss YouAreNotAlone SupportGroup GriefCommunity ChesterNJ NewJerseySupport ThroughTheTears LifeAfterLoss GriefCoach CompassionateSupport HopeAfterLoss SpouseLoss GriefRecovery

05/23/2026

04/23/2026

Please note change to May schedule - May 9th @ 1 pm.

03/06/2026

I will be leading a free 3-part session support group for anyone who has lost a spouse. It will be held at the Chester NJ Library this spring. Details are in the flyer. Registration is through the library at chesterlib.org or call the library at 908-879-0891 (registration is done not through me for this program).

01/05/2026

Very honored to be featured in the January 2026 Spotlight Article in the Natural Awakenings Magazine.

11/22/2025

Are you struggling with the holidays due to the loss of a loved one? Please consider joining us for a 4-week Virtual Holiday Support Group starting Tuesday, December 2, 2025. Cost for all 4 weeks is $100. Registration details listed above.