Sunshine in the Shadows
Widowed at age 24, she pulls from personal experiences to weave honesty and humor into her grief seminars. For churches, conferences and care teams.
Churches · Conferences · Care teams · Hospice staff
She boldly whispers into spaces of pain, hardship and grief — weaving honesty and humor into the same hour. Churches, conferences, care teams and classrooms.

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Widowed at age 24, she pulls from personal experiences to weave honesty and humor into her grief seminars. For churches, conferences and care teams.
Churches · Conferences · Care teams · Hospice staff
Finding — and building — the places where people belong.
Conferences · Schools · Nonprofit staff days
For the grandparents, aunts and neighbors raising someone else's child.
Kinship networks · Social services · Support groups
Her comedic character, turned loose on your audience.
Banquets · Women’s events · Fundraisers
Tell her the shape of your event and she will build to fit it — a single session, a whole day, or a Sabbath morning.
Date, audience, and the shape of your event. Anything you already know is enough to start.
She will ask who is in the room and what you need them to leave with, then propose the format.
Session built to your room, with books and signed copies for the table if you want them.
Sabbath services, retreats, women’s and family ministry days.
Keynotes and breakouts on belonging, grief and acceptance.
For the people who sit with grief professionally.
Mrs. T reads, and the Open Fielders come along.
Advocacy, training days and family events.