Grief is not something you get over or need to move on from. The depth of grief measures the height of love. Author Jan Warner believes that the goal is not to have grief disappear but rather to be able to be fully alive with grief, to have our loved one's lives matter more to us than their death.

Jan Warner has used her Master's in Counseling degree and her training in NLP and hypnotherapy while working in child abuse prevention and suicide prevention. When her beloved Artie died nine years she felt as though she had died too. She decided to honor his memory by making herself available to grieving people the way he, as a recovering alcoholic, had made himself available to alcoholics and addicts. She decided it would give her life meaning if she only reached one person. Now, she has a Facebook page, Grief Speaks Out, which is a supportive worldwide community with more than 2 million likes. She is the author of Grief Day by Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living With Loss. She has produced documentary films and an off Broadway play. She has been to all seven continents. Her favorite role in life is being a grandmother.