Girl Meets Grief is a community founded by writer and grief specialist, educator and advocate Julia Morin. Julia is a childhood loss survivor whose mother died suddenly and tragically 30 years ago, shortly after Julia turned eight years old, and less than one week after Mother’s Day—and she has experienced a number of other losses in her life. In addition to her extensive lived experience with loss and grief, she completed three training programs in grief support and education and holds the credentials of Grief Support Specialist (UW-Madison certificate), Certified Grief Educator (David Kessler Training/Grief.com), and Certified Provider (Claire Bidwell Smith/Grief & Loss Training Program).

Julia is fiercely passionate about normalizing conversations and ending the stigma around grief, as she continues to navigate the various manifestations of this significant early loss in her own life. She is especially passionate about work around mother loss and childhood loss, as a result of her lived experiences. Her approach to grief support is rooted in the belief that grief, like love, lasts forever—and while we never “get over” it or “move on,” we can learn to move forward with it, live alongside it, and integrate it into our lives.

Julia’s writing on grief and mental health has been published by Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Mighty, and The Manifest-Station among others, and she has been a guest on podcasts including Got Grief, How to Grieve, and Daughters Without Moms, as well as a live interview on The Power of Love Show with TJ and Taj Jackson of the Dee Dee Jackson Foundation.