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ABOUT

Hi, I’m Tara—founder of Magnolia Rising, where grief and life grow together.

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I’m a grief coach, but not in the way you might expect. I’m not here to fix you or move you through grief on a timeline. I’m here to sit with you in the real, in-between spaces—the messy, uncertain, still-figuring-it-out parts of life that don’t always have words.

 

This work isn’t something I learned only through training. It’s something I’ve lived.

 

After the loss of my daughter, Harper, my world shifted in ways I couldn’t have prepared for. Just 362 days later, I lost my mom to cancer—while raising a preschooler and pregnant with another child. Grief wasn’t something I could neatly process or set aside. It was layered, complex, and ever-present.

 

And if I’m honest, I also learned what happens when grief is pushed down or carried alone. The weight of it. The disconnection. The quiet ways it shows up when it hasn’t been given space.

 

But I also discovered something else.

 

When we allow grief to surface—when we honor it instead of rushing past it—there is space for healing. For resilience. For finding our way back to ourselves, slowly and honestly.

 

You might find me dancing one moment and speaking about grief, healing, and resilience the next—because both can exist at the same time. And that’s where something meaningful begins to take shape.

 

I’m here to walk alongside you in this. Not to lead you out of grief, but to help you learn how to live with it, grow with it, and stay present within it.

 

If that resonates with you, you’re in the right space

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Breaking The Silence

I’m honoured to be part of a collaborative book that brings together diverse voices and experiences around trauma.

 

In my chapter, I share reflections on grief, shaped by both personal experience and the work I do with others who are walking similar paths.

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On Fridays, We Dance

Somewhere along the way, in the middle of grief, I started dancing.

Not because everything was okay—
but because it wasn’t.

Because sometimes the only way to move what you’re feeling… is to actually move.

What started as a small, personal ritual became something more.
A reminder that even in the heaviest seasons, there can still be moments of lightness. Of release. Of feeling alive again.

That spirit lives here too.

You don’t have to wait until your grief is gone to feel those moments.

You’re allowed to hold both.

And when you’re ready… we’ll find your rhythm together.

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