Grief & Identity Coaching for Women
You are not defined by what you've lost.
You are still here. There is still a woman in there worth finding.
Loss can take your breath away. It leaves you wondering who you are and what your life was meant to be. I know what that darkness feels like. I've lived inside it. And I found my way through to the other side. You were created for more than this โ and I'm here to walk with you.
If any of this sounds familiar โ you're in the right place.
She wakes up and doesn't recognize her own life anymore.
She smiles at family dinners โ and cries on the way home.
She misses the version of herself that existed before the loss.
She has said "I'm fine" so many times she has stopped believing herself.
She feels guilty for grieving what others say she should be "over by now."
She is afraid that the pain she carries is now just... who she is.
My Story
Loss found me again and again.
I didn't plan to become someone who helps women walk through grief. Grief found me first.
It came on a Father's Day weekend in 2003, on the coast of Oregon โ the kind of place that should feel like peace. A boat accident. My father, gone. There are no words that fit that kind of loss. There is only the silence that follows, and the long, slow process of learning to breathe inside it.
I thought I understood grief then. I didn't know yet that grief had more to teach me.
In the years that followed, I lost my father-in-law, my mother, my mother-in-law. I lost Starr โ my best friend, the kind of friend who knows your whole heart โ to autoimmune disease. She used to say, "The best is yet to come." I held onto that. Some days it was all I had.
I have stood at more gravesides than I can count. I have sat in the darkness that descends after loss โ the kind that doesn't just grieve a person, but begins to grieve yourself. Who am I now? What is my life for?
But here is what I know now, on the other side of all of it:
Purpose doesn't abandon you in grief. It waits.
I created Elizabeth Nelson Co because I know what it is to be in the middle of the grief โ desperate for someone who gets it. I am that someone. And I would be honored to walk with you.
How We Walk Through This Together
Three steps. No rushing.
No pretending. Just the real way through.
STEP 01 โ Grieve Fully
Come as you are.
We don't rush grief here. We create space to feel it completely โ because healing begins with honesty, not hurry. The first step is not moving forward. It is simply acknowledging where you are.
You survived something hard. That deserves to be honored.
STEP 02 โ Reclaim Identity
Who am I now?
Grief can shake who we are. It takes the version of you that existed before โ and leaves you wondering who's looking back in the mirror. Together, we excavate your values, your voice, and your quiet, resilient self.
You are not defined by what you've lost. You are being shaped by it.
STEP 03 โ Find Purpose & Rise
The best is yet to come.
Not in spite of your losses โ but woven through them. The very place you were broken often holds your calling. Your story has a next chapter โ a life not just rebuilt, but reimagined โ and you do not rise alone.
Ready for step one?
Start with 7 Days of Hope.
A free email series to carry you through the tender days. One email, one truth, one small step โ for seven days.
Start with 7 Days of Hope โ it's free โ