Chivonne Monaghan
Speaker • Author • Grief + Resilience Specialist
Helping you integrate loss and rebuild your life | Turning Story into Strength
Where My Work Really Began
I grew up in an environment shaped by addiction and trauma, experiences that influenced me deeply but no longer define me. For years, I searched for happiness outside of myself: through achievement, travel, relationships, and distraction.
It wasn’t until I turned inward that I learned how to hold myself through the hardest parts of being human. That became the beginning of everything I teach today.
Over the past two decades, I’ve:
Lived in six countries
Traveled through more than thirty others
Coached and supported people across the world
Built a career in wellness and personal development
Facilitated retreats and healing experiences
Taught yoga, meditation, and nervous-system practices
Explored modalities such as: CBT, EMDR, TRE, NLP, meditation, Yin yoga, breathwork, trauma-aware coaching, and emotional regulation.
Each one became another layer of understanding - about pain, healing, and possibility.
2024: The Year Everything Shattered
In a matter of months, I lost:
My father
My stepfather
A former partner
My father’s death was the most complicated.
He was cremated one week before I even knew he had passed.
No goodbye.
No closure.
No roadmap for what came next.
Every tool I had ever gathered was suddenly tested… and ultimately reshaped.
Through the deepest grief of my life, I learned something essential:
Grief is not something you “get over.”
We grow around it.
It becomes part of us - like a tattoo: raw at first, tender as it heals, and eventually a marker of who we’re becoming.
This truth is now the foundation of my work.
My Framework: Grace, Space + Base™
Everything I teach rests on this trauma-aware model:
Grace - Self-compassion. Permission to not be okay.
Space - Emotional room to pause, feel, breathe, and heal at your own pace.
Base - Grounding tools, nervous-system support, connection, and community. The foundation you need when your world has changed.
This framework helps people integrate their grief rather than fight it.
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Who I Support
My work is for individuals and groups navigating:
✔ Complicated grief
✔ Disenfranchised loss
✔ Nervous-system dysregulation
✔ Identity shifts
✔ Burnout and emotional overwhelm
✔ Trauma after loss
✔ Major life transitions
✔ The invisible layers of grief most people don’t talk about
How I Share This Work
I support individuals, workplaces, and communities through:
✔ Keynote talks & corporate workshops
✔ Grief literacy and resilience education
✔ 1:1 grief support sessions
✔ Group circles and online courses
✔ Women’s retreats
✔ Digital resources
✔ My upcoming memoir, Unscripted Grief
✔ My six-week program, After the Fall™
My mission is simple: make grief less isolating and healing more accessible.
A Final Note to You:
If you’ve found your way here, you are likely carrying something heavy.
You might be searching for language, steadiness, meaning, or simply the next breath that doesn’t hurt.
Wherever you are in your grief story, you are not alone. This is a place to land, gently, and begin again.
In love + light,
Chivonne
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