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Welcome to Her Grief, Her Strength
Grieving Loudly. Living Boldly.
A nonprofit rooted in love, built by grieving moms, and powered by community.
We’re here for the parents holding the heaviest stories, the ones grieving children, diagnoses, futures they imagined, and still showing up with aching hearts and fierce hope.
This isn’t just a space. It’s a movement. And you belong here.

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community voices

  • “Her Grief, Her Strength has been a light in the darkness”

    - anonymous

  • “This community has meant the entire world to me. I would not he able to process what im going through without the love and support these women bring. It’s a safe place where I know whatever I say there is no judgement, and im met with love.”

    - sidney prescott

  • “We are early in our journey and don't have a definitive diagnosis, just symptoms. Because of that, I was nervous we wouldn't "fit in," but it has been quite the opposite. This community has so much knowledge and love to share. Truly grateful to have found it.”

    - anonymous

  • “HGHS connected me with a support system but also gives me the opportunity to support others. Being a mom to a medically complex child is isolating and friends from my pre-diagnosis life just can't relate to my new day-to-day life. It's great to have a place where talking about g-tubes, O2 says, or just really hard days isn't met with uncomfortable silence or "you're so strong" or "you'll figure it out." The women here see your strength and your struggles because they carry them, too.”

    - jj knight

  • “The HGHS community accepted me with open arms after my daughter was diagnosed with pcd, a progressive, genetic mucociliary disease. They listened without judgement and just having an ear and a space to talk was so helpful and comforting.”

    - shar

  • "I feel like my son's doctors and therapies help me handle all those things that come with him and his condition, but I didn’t feel there was a place for me in that until HGHS"

    - victoria schaible 

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we are HGHS

We’re more than a support group.
We’re a nonprofit community built by and for parents navigating deep grief, complex medical journeys, and life after unimaginable loss.

Founded by two med moms turned advocates, Her Grief, Her Strength offers connection, resources, and real talk for those grieving loudly and living boldly. Whether you’re in the thick of medical parenting, missing a child, or learning to carry a grief no one else sees, we hold space for it all.

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You Can Be Her Strength

Your donation makes an immediate difference in the lives of the women we serve. Whether it helps us cover the cost of sending a care package to a newly grieving mom, or offsetting travel expenses for a family seeking out-of-state care, every dollar is felt.

Giving financially is the most effective way to support our work.

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Community amplifies compassion. Hosting a fundraiser, can be a beautiful way to honor a loved one while rallying others around our mission.

How You Can Help:

  • Join an HGHS Fundraiser (we host events throughout the year!)

  • Start a personal or team fundraiser online

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Your words hold power. By sharing your story, you remind another grieving mom that she’s not broken, she’s not alone.

Ways to Share:

  • Submit your story to our Daily Diary blog series

  • Be featured on our social media or podcast

  • Join our Community

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It takes a village, and we’re building one filled with heart-led helpers.

Volunteer Opportunities:

  • Attend a local HGHS Volunteer Day (Richmond, VA area)

  • Help assemble care packages, memory cards, or outreach materials

  • Take on virtual projects like research, writing, or community support

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What is Her Grief, Her Strength?
What is Her Grief, Her Strength?

Her Grief, Her Strength was born from the hardest seasons of our lives. We are both “medical moms” who’ve walked the unbearable paths of watching our children suffer and, for Rachel, of losing her daughter, Cassie. What started as voice notes and late-night texts between two moms trying to survive… became a lifeline. Then a passion project.

A Note to Our Community
A Note to Our Community

When we started Her Grief, Her Strength, we dreamed of creating a space where no one would have to grieve alone. A place where love, loss, advocacy, and raw honesty could sit at the same table. Where the beauty of connection would carry us through the hardest days.

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Blog
the little joys that carry us
the little joys that carry us

Sometimes it’s not the big milestones that keep us going.
It’s the tiniest flickers of grace. The ordinary glimmers of magic. The quiet proof that we’re not alone in this.

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Hands Off Our Hope
Hands Off Our Hope

Jan stood in front of the crowd and told them about our daughter Cassie. About how, after her diagnosis with Krabbe Disease, we were immediately thrust into a world of appointments, machines, specialists, and systems…

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My Relentless Dance with Fate
My Relentless Dance with Fate

It started before I even knew what “fate” was, before I could name the heaviness in my chest or the storm in my mind. I fought battles that no one should have to fight…

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Your Choice
Your Choice

From the Heart That Holds Heaven —

Grief is a weight unlike any other. It shifts, it lingers, it presses into the deepest parts of me. Some days, it whispers…

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Monsters
Monsters

“I used to be afraid of monsters ..”

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Yet
Yet

I’m grateful yet so very tired….

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Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.
Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.

Grief isn’t linear. It’s not a tidy list of stages you check off and move past. It’s a storm—chaotic, relentless, and impossible to predict…

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her grief, her strength podcast

HGHS Podcast
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episode 02
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