• The Grief Rebel Healing Framework

    The beauty of the Grief Rebel Coaching framework is that it meets you exactly where you are and where you are not in your grief and healing journey.


    As you already know, widowed grief is messy, confusing, twisting and complex. What if there is a way to navigate your overwhelm, disbelief, loneliness and pain in a way that works for you? What if instead pushing through, forcing yourself and getting through your grief you could take care of yourself fully, create a life with energy and discover new pathways while grieving?


    I've developed a flexible, powerful and proven way for you to heal. Based on 12 Healing Grief Rebel Tenets and many, many years of research, counseling and coaching I know I can help you build your confidence, find trust again and discover deep self-compassion all while grieving and healing. Because of what you've been through and what you are going through you fully deserve calm, connection, freedom and, yes, joy again.


    You deserve to create the new, fullest version of yourself. Do you hear the call to heel? Can you feel the threads (even though they may be seemingly undetectable) of curiosity pulling you to build, create and discover?  I hold this space for you…the safe, nonjudgemental space for you to heal and expand into.  

  • Jim Spelman Grief Rebel Coach

    As a coach, speaker and author, I've helped many, many people like you who have lost a spouse or partner and are willing to lean into healing despite what has happened or what is happening presently in your life.  My own life blew apart when my wife died giving birth to our baby boy.  I was thrown into the worlds of solo-parenting, special needs parenting and widowhood all at once. Since then, I've recreated my life from shattered to shining many times over! 

    I don't have any super powers, special qualities or magical abilities. I have a combined counseling, coaching and teaching background and I've leaned into healing and chose to say yes to being open, to asking questions and to finding answers to my difficult questions.  Because of my own tumultuous healing journey, I see grief quite differently now.  I experience grief--with a dose of feistiness and a bit of healthy rebellion--as a possibility to grow, heal and learn and I carry that possibility with me into every coaching session. I would be honored to be able to hand that powerful healing baton to you.

  • Grief Rebels Explained

    When we create a space for healing, we’re brave. When we’re brave we search for a way that works better for us then the way we’re doing it now.


    No matter how intensely you are feeling and how deeply you are grieving, you are here because you know there’s something more...something expanding, something healing, something transforming. Somewhere inside (maybe obvious or a little widow foggy at the moment) you want healing, connection, release and peace for yourself and your life.


    Grief Rebels go against the grain, try new things, and go outside of their comfort zone. In many ways as widowed people, we are forced to do just that--we are pushed by the death of our partner or spouse to grieve, search, question and hurt.


    As a widowed person you are naturally a part of the Grief Rebel community because you are widowed...with a little fiesty questioning perhaps, some deep emotions and pain and maybe even a little curiosity for a new way.


    Rebels transform their worlds and that, my widowed partner in healing, is exactly what you’re doing at this exact moment.