Welcome to Choose Connections Grief Coaching. I'm Kristin Darcy and I'm so glad you found this page.

A Little Bit about Me

• I am a wife and mom of three teens ages 14,16 and 19. As a family we have experienced the pain, heartache and loss related to trauma, mental health struggles and the difficult journey of ADHD. 
• Certified Grief Recovery Specialist through the Grief Recovery Institute
• I hold a Master's Degree in Social Work and have over a decade of prior experience providing grief and trauma counseling to individuals and families in the areas of child loss and adolescent bereavement, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, 9/11 Pentagon attack survivors and families, and victims of crime. 
• I am also a Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator and trained Coach for Parents of Teens helping parents navigate the sometimes-tumultuous journey of raising adolescents.  

My Personal Experience with the Grief Recovery Method

When my oldest was a freshman in high school, he suffered a trauma at the hands of a close friend and was diagnosed with PTSD.  This event had a significantly negative impact on our son and our family as we fought for years for him to stay here on earth with us and begin to heal from all the loss he experienced. For years after the event, I found myself unable to fully move on. I was experiencing grief over the loss of what I thought life should have been like for our son and family and felt very much robbed of that time. Even though I had processed my feelings in therapy, I was still experiencing anger and sadness that I started to believe would be with me forever. Even as a former counselor, I didn't realize that what I was experiencing was GRIEF!

While working with parents as a Parent Educator and Coach for Parents of Teens, I quickly realized how much grief was showing up for them. Many parents were struggling with the loss of unmet expectations and dreams for their children and found that this was significantly impacting them and their families. I found myself professionally being called back to grief work. Additionally, as I was helping these parents navigate their challenges, it started to shine a spotlight for me even more so, on my unresolved feelings of grief. I knew that if I wanted to help others navigate their own grief, that I owed it to them and myself to acknowledge and work through mine. This led me to the Grief Recovery Method.

What The Grief Recovery Method Gave Me

• The GRM gave me the peace that I had been searching for.
• I was able to complete the painful relationship I had with the individual who had caused our pain and along with that my anger significantly decreased.
• For the first time, I was able to acknowledge and be validated in the losses I had experienced, as a result of my son's trauma.
• I was able to focus on the close relationship that was created with my son, through our connection during the difficult times, and to feel gratitude that I was the person who could be there for him in his darkest days.
• I finally was able to start to feel true joy again.

As a Grief Recovery Method Specialist, I now am blessed to help others who have experienced loss find joy again.