I spiraled. Quietly, inwardly. Everything around me looked the same, but nothing felt the same. I eventually found a therapist and committed financially and emotionally to a year of regular sessions. I read everything I could get my hands on. I took a course with Mel Robbins to help me to refocus on my business. I talked to friends. I listened to podcasts. But what also helped me, that was free and effortless, was something simple and familiar: journaling.

Every morning, and sometimes at night, I wrote my way through the pain. Page by page, I began to understand that my grief wasn’t just about losing my parents. It was also about a deeper, longer ache, of loneliness, of lack of stability, of not knowing where I truly belonged. Writing helped me see that. It became a mirror, a friend, a way home.

In time, I began to heal.

It’s been nearly 4 years since my mother passed. I feel good again, like myself. Not 100%, but close enough.

That’s why, last year in the Fall, I decided to extract something out of that process of grief and pain. So I spent six months developing a digital guide and workbook with a 7-day mini course, both rooted in everything that had helped me to come back to my power and joy again. I call it Get Real because that’s what it asked of me, and what it now gently asks of anyone who uses it. To get honest. To sit with what’s hard. And to find softness in the process.

It’s for those who feel a little lost. A little burned out. A little out of sync with themselves. It’s slow and calm and personal so no pressure, no performance. Just space to reconnect. The course includes daily reflections, short videos, a bonus sticker book for journaling, and a live group session for those who want a little community to journal together and make vision boards.

This mini course IS NOT focused on the loss of loved ones, or loss in general. It’s not to replace therapy or medicine. The focus is really on giving yourself a boost, a reset, an inspiring and gentle nudge forward.

I created this from a very raw and honest place, not because I have all the answers, but because I know what it feels like to need something like this and not be able to find it.