Let’s face it, we’re not taught how to process grief as kids because likely, our parents didn’t know how to either. And even if we did experience grief as a child and get support through it, nothing prepares you for losing the love of your life.

As you go through your deepest grief, you’re probably feeling and struggling with a lot of emotions and challenges right now.

• When you’re in the midst of your early grief, it can be difficult to look past the moments because it takes all of your energy to get through them. Every minute can seem like an eternity. Just breathing can be difficult.
• Feeling all the feelings at once has left you overwhelmed, exhausted, and ready to throw in the towel.
• You struggle with the feeling that everything has been stripped away from you to the point that you don’t even know who you are anymore.
• You may have tried moving forward, but you just don’t see a way to reconcile this new life with your old one.
• It seems like one understands exactly how you’re feeling or what you need at this moment, and you aren’t able to articulate it.

I know because I’ve been there. But having been a grieving widow that felt all those feelings, I have some good news for you…

Everyone’s grief is their own. It can’t fit into a box, and it can’t be “fixed.”

I’m not here to fix you. Like a broken piece of pottery whose cracks are now filled with gold, you are going to mend yourself and walk away from the experience a stronger person.

I’m going to show you how. And be there to support you during your darkest days.

I’m not afraid of your pain because I’ve been where you are now, and I can handle anything you have to throw at me.

My goal is to normalize grief. In your children, in yourself, in your friends who shy away, and your relations who want you to get it over with. I want to teach you how you can walk forward in life with grief.

Hi, I’m Sarah Gallagher—a young widow, solo parent to two young kids, lover of life, a believer in magic, and a Grief Coach.

As part of my old identity, I was a Project Manager and online content specialist. Now, in my new life, I’ve been coaching widows through their grief for four years.

On April 26, 2014, I came home one evening after a rare night out to find my husband keeled over in the living room, blue. Three nights and two days waiting in limbo at the hospital before a brain scan confirmed the worst.

He was gone.

At first, I was too shell-shocked to even comprehend how to continue living life without my husband.

• I felt split open and empty.
• I felt like I was in a nightmare that I couldn’t wake up from.
• My person, my best friend, my soulmate was gone. It was incomprehensible.

The life that we had promised to build together was now destroyed.

Suddenly, I was an widowed, solo parent with the weight of the world for me to burden on my own.

Yes, your kids need to grieve and they need your support, but you can’t help them stand if you’re not upright yourself.

Reclaim Your Life is my signature program that was designed to help widows who are ready to stop reacting and start actively living again.

If you want to move forward but don’t know how…

If your life goals and identity were lost with your spouse…

If you want to get the support you need so you can support your family…

Then, it’s time to find yourself again. To learn how to stand in this new identity and confidently know where you’re going.

Through reassessing, redefining, and rebuilding, you will learn how to move forward with the memories of your loved one and rediscover what you want and who you want to be in their absence.