Hi, I’m Juanita and I’m so glad that you’re here.

I hope that The Grief Luminary will be a safe place for you to land and a place that you can find refuge in. A place to flood your grief with light - a little hope in the dark.

I founded The Grief Luminary because I wholeheartedly believe it’s my soul’s life mission to show people a different way to grieve and to normalise grief by engaging in courageous conversations around death and dying.

It’s my greatest honour and a privilege I do not take lightly when I walk the path of healing with people who have suffered a profound loss. Having experienced loss after loss after loss, I intimately understand what living with grief feels like. It was after my fifth pregnancy loss that I shifted from avoiding and repressing my grief to intentionally inviting it in to my life, making room for it and honouring it’s presence.

Creating brave spaces for people to be seen, heard and witnessed in the fullness of their experience of loss is something that I hold sacred. Utilising 17 years of experience as a Social Worker and Counsellor working across various settings, I understand that you are the expert of your own grief. It is my role to sensitively and compassionately empower you to meet your grief with intention, love and grace. Afterall, grief is the price we pay for love, it’s all the love we have to give, but with no physical place to give it.

Let me show you how to have a relationship with your grief that will allow you to honour that love and allow it to live alongside you in harmony.