You don't have to wait for life to fall apart to start truly living it.

And I wish I had learned some of what I know about life now without having to learn it the way I did.

In 2022, my beautiful 15-year-old daughter, Rylee, died by suicide.

There are moments that divide your life into before and after. That was mine.

Grief changed me. It changed the way I see time, the things we postpone, the words we leave unsaid and all the ways we convince ourselves that there will always be a better time to truly live.

But somewhere amongst learning how to carry unimaginable loss, I discovered something else:

Grief and joy can exist at the same time.

I could miss my daughter for the rest of my life and still love being alive. I could carry sadness and experience extraordinary joy. I could honour everything that had happened without allowing the worst thing that had ever happened to me to become the end of my story.

And I realised we shouldn't have to experience tragedy to understand just how precious an ordinary Tuesday is.

That's why I created The More Life List™.

Not a bucket list of things to do before you die.

A reminder of all the things you're still here to live.

It's also why I created The GRACE Method™ and Why Mindset Matters — to help people navigate grief, loss and life-changing experiences without believing they have to choose between honouring what they've been through and creating a beautiful life alongside it.

I'm an author, coach, Registered Nurse and Midwife, speaker, educator and podcast host.

But more than any title, I'm someone who has learned first-hand that more than one truth can exist at once.