Meditation & Journaling for Grief: Online Course For Life After Loss

About the author

Heather Stang, MA, C-IAYT, is a thanatologist, author, grief educator, and speaker who helps people live with loss through mindfulness, self-compassion, and practical grief support. She is the creator of the 8-Step Mindfulness and Grief System, which is featured in The Handbook of Grief Therapies, and the recipient of the 2025 Association for Death Education and Counseling Clinical Practice Award.

Heather is the author of Living with Grief, From Grief to Peace, and Navigating Loss. Through her books, speaking, training, podcasting, and client work, she helps grieving people and helping professionals move beyond myths and platitudes into more honest, compassionate, and sustainable ways of living and working with loss.

Her work is shaped by both professional training and lived experience. Raised in a family marked by profound loss, Heather grew up in what she describes as an ecosystem of grief. Years later, yoga and mindfulness opened a path toward healing that eventually led her to yoga therapy, thanatology, and the development of her mindfulness-based approach to grief.

Heather hosts the Mindfulness and Grief Podcast, serves on the Advisory Board for TAPS, and speaks internationally for bereavement organizations, healthcare systems, mindfulness communities, and grief-adjacent professionals. She is based in Frederick, Maryland.