Suzanne Read
Reimagining life after loss
Speaker: Suzanne Read
Grief comes in waves and controls who we are, what we do, and how we live. The person we care least about after loss is ourselves.
We are the last person to give attention to. We are the last person to care for and we are the last person to nurture. Most of our focus is outward rather than inward. That’s because focusing on ourselves creates emotion and expression of our grief. Something our society is not good at!
Throughout the last 6 years, via my holistic grief counsellor, mentors, and energetic coaches and healing training, I have established several key practices and habits that have allowed me to step into my new identity and heal from within.
My session is designed to provide participants with simple methods to reground yourself and recenter your nervous system.
These practices, which I do daily, allow me to clear my mind, which provides clarity and self-love to be able to dream big, live the life they deserve to live and be the best version of myself.
In this session I will take you through three practices:
- A 5-minute meditation practice that you can do every morning before you start your day.
- An energy healing practice that enables you to restore balance and flow into energy systems of the body.
- A journalling process that connects you to self-love and redirects your energy from self-criticism to self-compassion.
You can take these into their daily life, allowing you to re-centre when times get tough and reduce the feelings of depression, frustration and anxiety which grief creates.
About Suzanne
Suzanne Read’s life was turned upside down when her husband Robert was diagnosed with Leukaemia and died 6 years later in 2019.Over the last six years, she has turned her heartache into her passion and created “Life Beyond the Grief”. A grief mentoring and healing service for those that have loved and lost.
Her diary of her experience as a wife and carer to her late husband Robert, has been turned into her first novel “From Wife to Widow”. And her professional life story created her second novel “From Corporate to Country”.
Suzanne has spoken to groups about her struggles pre and post her loss, and her determination to control her grief and heal her heart. Her story is about dealing with loss and grief but also love. Her insights are brave and inspirational and give the audience a raw insight into how she turned her Grief into Greatness.
Suzanne remarried in 2024 and now is a stepmum to 3 daughters and 2 grandchildren. She built a second business, Coolabine Retreat, an accommodation business on her 35-acre property in Kenilworth, 2 hours north of Brisbane and is an active member of the community.
She is a mentor, a podcaster, a keynote speaker, a healer, a passionate author, a family constellation facilitator and a woman on a mission to inspire others that you can create a new identity and life after loss.
Hope, community, understanding
Join our community for access to information, resources, events, and a network of widowed people for peer support. Joining is free, with options to become a financial supporter to keep us running and helping others.