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Turning Pain Into Purpose
Unleash the power within. Get the life you desire and deserve. After writing my book, Holy Shift, I dedicated myself full time to bringing my message to the world. I help break through the boundaries that are limiting you. Grieving the loss of a spouse. Let me help you move from the world of yesterday's regrets to the world of tomorrow's victories. The fastest way to start doing what works is to stop doing what doesn't. I'm an entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, and advocate for children, single mothers, and widows. I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. You hold the power to design your life holy shift blog. - Tracy Peart
"At the end of life, what really matters is not what we bought but what we built; not what we got but what we shared; not our competence but our character; and not our success, but our significance. Live a life that matters. Live a life of love." - Karen Sampson
Discover Your Divine Purpose
Heal your soul, honor your loved one, and learn to live again. Finding happiness in the wake of tragedy. Pain can actually be a gift in which we can learn a great deal. The highs and lows of our life. Uncover challenges and triumphs. Live with passion and purpose. Reclaim your life. Shape Your Own Destiny.
Embracing The Winding Way Forward
The "Hood" of Widowhood - Healing After Loss
2011 - Tragedy strikes. I suddenly widowed four small children. A calling I didn't ask for and one I didn't want. Then my own near-death experience changed everything. We are stronger and more resilient than we think. We can cope with devastating life events. I was facing adversity, building resilience, and rediscovering joy by finding more profound meaning and appreciation for life. After Sean's death, I was in a fog and felt numb. In the first wave of shock, I experienced anxiety and fear. I searched for answers. It felt hopeless. I was shattered and heartbroken. It felt overwhelming in every direction. Weakened, exhausted, and drained by tears, During this difficult time, shortly after, we lost our home. Deep-seated pain seared my soul. My person was gone, and my sense of security was gone too. I wanted to cry, scream and run. Grief is a roller coaster—denial, loneliness, depression. Shortly after, I had to file for bankruptcy. I was broken relatively and figuratively. I was sad, depressed, scared, lost, and felt alone. The hard truth is a painful process. If I could give you advice, it would be to do one thing every day that makes you happy.
I then experienced my paradigm "Holy Shift" at my core. Hope, healing, and peace. I let my pain, anger, and frustration go, found forgiveness and grace, and started to heal. I began an upward trajectory, a spiritual shift from the tipping point, and awakened conscious awareness—Hope, happiness, laughter, and joy. I started again, and you can too, whatever road you're on. Living in the past kills your future. If you can laugh at the crazy events in your life, one day, things will not be easy but will get a little easier. How to find your inner strength, persevere, and thrive. Laughter helps in any situation. Hopefully, I can touch people who are struggling and need a laugh, how to laugh when you feel like crying! The beauty of finding humor through a challenging situation is that you don't have to be a widow, anything counts if you are going through SHIFT… Let's laugh through the tough and find humor in mundane everyday situations.
Tracy Peart / Amazon Best Selling Author Recipient Book Excellence Award 2022 Bronze Medal Winner
Holy Shift The Book - Coming Soon!
Heal your soul, honor your loved one, and learn to live again. Building resilience through adversity.
The Waves of Change
Shifts Happen
Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. I'm a digital Amazon best-selling author, blogger, digital designer, web designer, and entrepreneur. I love my family, chocolate, tacos, stars, dogs, deep conversations, crystals, birds, and the ocean. Grief Guidebook is filled with many grief resources and helps those going through loss, pain, and suffering after the death of a loved one. It's a workbook to help process the emotions, days, weeks, and years of processing loss. I share what I experienced firsthand. It also has a third-eye awakening, chakras, energy, and how to embrace change, let go and awaken your spiritual awareness and gifts.
Our Partners
Online Grief Resources for the Bereaved
Alliance of Hope
The Alliance of Hope for Suicide Survivors provides healing support for people coping with the shock, excruciating grief, and complex emotions that accompany the loss of a loved one to suicide.
American Widow Project
The mission of the American Widow Project is to provide military widows with vital support through peer-based support programs designed to educate, empower, inspire, and assist in rebuilding their lives in the face of tragedy.
Camp Widow
Camp Widow® is a weekend-long gathering of widowed people from across the country and around the world. We come together to create a community that understands the life-altering experience of widowhood. Camp Widow® provides practical tools, valuable resources, and peer-based encouragement for rebuilding your life in the aftermath of the death of a spouse… all in a fun, uplifting, laughter-filled atmosphere.
Gary Roe – Healing Is Possible
Gary’s website provides a range of resources on grief and healing, including the Good Grief mini-course that some of our members have drawn benefit from.
Grief Share
Grief Share is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. You don’t have to go through the grieving process alone.
Get Your Shit Together is now JoinCake
https://getyourshittogether.org/
Formally GYST.COM - Get Your Shit Together in 2013 to help people complete end-of-life planning like wills, living wills, advance care directives, wrangling your money, and getting the right insurance to be less vulnerable and more prepared. What can help before and after the ‘shit hits the fan’ new book, What Matters Most: The Get Your Shit Guide to Wills, Money, Insurance, and Life’s “What-Ifs.” A Resource to Explore, document, and share all your health, legal, funeral, and legacy decisions in an end-of-life plan.
Grief ToolBox
When dealing with grief, it can be a challenge to find the resources we need to educate ourselves and our loved ones on what is happening and how to keep going forward.
Grief Diaries
https://griefdiaries.com Real people. Real stories. Real hope.
Dedicated to bringing you comfort, understanding, and hope through books, videos, podcasts, resources, events, social media & so much more!
International Grief Institute
https://internationalgriefinstitute.com/ Investing in community resilience.
Setting the gold standard for quality & ethical practices in aftercare through educational consulting & professional training for funeral and bereavement professionals.
HolyShift Blog
https://tracypeart.com/my-blog
A glimpse into heartbreak. Talking honestly about our pain, fear, weakness, awkwardness, and the strange and beautiful transition between this world and whatever comes next. Life, death, and everything in between. Grief Guidebook
One Fit Widow
Shortly after Michelle’s life-changing wake-up call, her husband of nine years was killed in a small plane crash. Despite the tragedy that was unfolding in her personal life, she dug deep and realized that at this moment in time and discovered she needed fitness more than ever.
Modern Widows Club
A widow mentoring organization. We inspire widows to live a life where anything is possible by being a friend, mentor & advocating in their favor. James 1:27 to heart. Moving forward while reaching back.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
If your spouse or partner is/was involved in hospice, this organization offers up to one year of free grief counseling. They also offer community outreach counseling for people whose spouse or partner was not in Hospice but still need grief counseling. Finally, if the counseling offered does not meet your needs, contact the bereavement department of your local hospice as they are usually happy to help you locate grief services and support in your area that is more appropriate for you.
National Widowers Organization
www.nationalwidowers.org
The National Widowers’ Organization is a virtual toolkit for men coping with the loss of a loved one, where men can meet others going through the same transition. There are a lot of things men suffer alone.
Soaring Spirits International
SSLF is an inclusive, non-denominational organization focused on hope and healing through the grieving process. We are positive and forward-thinking while focusing on offering our members the tools and resources they need to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of a loved one's death.
Second Firsts
Second Firsts was founded in 2010. We provide a scientific and process-oriented approach to releasing pain consciously and methodically by relying on our brain’s ability to give birth to new pathways, new habits, and new brain connections.
Widow Care
Our Mission is to provide accessible content, connections, and programs to the 680,204 DC metropolitan residents facing the loss of a spouse so that they can become empowered in their walks through grief & new challenges.
Widowed Village
Widowed Village connects peers for friendship and sharing. The moderators, administrators, and others involved in running this site are widowed people like you. Peer support is an excellent, social way to learn more about living with loss while gaining the energy and ideas for your path to a new life.
Widows Wear Stilettos
We are proud to serve anyone who has suffered or may be facing the loss of a spouse/partner, regardless of age, gender, technical marital status, sexual orientation, length of time married, length of time widowed, or circumstances surrounding spousal death. If you are visiting on behalf of a loved one or friend who is widowed or who may be facing widowhood, thank you for taking the time to visit and, more importantly, for taking the time to locate assistance and support for your loved one. Please be sure to visit the "Fleet Speak" page to locate additional helpful recommendations and resources.
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
TAPS offers grief resources and bereavement counseling to those grieving the loss of a loved one serving in the Armed Forces. There are transition services, counseling, and outreach provided through a national peer support network at no cost to those surviving families and loved ones. They also partner with the Department of Veteran Affairs.
These resources, are great tools to find what you need all in one place.