because looking inward and telling it like it is...
is how I carved My path
Michele Cynthia – Holistic Grief Expert & End-of-Life Doula
“A Sacred Threshold: The Story of Michele Cynthia, The Grief Warrior®”
Michele Cynthia is a holistic grief coach and end-of-life death doula known as The Grief Warrior®—a spiritual guide for those navigating profound loss, emotional trauma, and sacred transition. With lived wisdom, ancestral knowing, and poetic precision, she walks beside those who can no longer carry their sorrow alone.
In 2001, Michele’s world cracked open. Her teenage son was diagnosed with cancer. What followed was not simply a battle with illness—it was a soul-initiation. She bore witness to the slow erosion of his body under chemotherapy, the sacred fragility of breath, the silence between heartbeats—and yet, never once did she witness the death of his spirit.
But grief’s brutality wasn’t limited to the hospital room.
While caring for her son, Michele was forced to choose between corporate loyalty and maternal devotion. After requesting reduced hours to stay by his side, she was exiled from her executive role at The Rivervue, managed by Davis & Partners. Her commitment was met not with grace, but with punishment.
The fallout was seismic: homelessness, betrayal, emotional abuse, and the unspeakable loneliness of single motherhood without a lifeline. Yet through that crucible, she did not shatter. She transfigured.
Motherhood was never a role—it was her soul’s gravity. It wasn’t chosen; it was destined. It tethered her to life in every storm and sustained her when everything else fell away.
Though trauma left its signature—PTSD—Michele refused to be defined by survival. Instead, she chose to alchemize it. She rose not in spite of pain, but through it. Her journey was not a textbook in transformation; it was a sacred initiation into what it means to live after devastation.
From the ruins of institutional abandonment and spiritual anguish, she became an architect of healing. A Wellness Alchemist. A woman who forged her tools in fire, who doesn’t teach healing—she embodies it.
Her mission now is a living vow:
To guide others through their own sacred thresholds—through death, betrayal, grief, and soul fracture—into reclamation, resilience, and purpose.
She walks with those who have forgotten how to walk.
She listens where the world turns away.
She stands where most turn and flee.
Because Michele knows: grief is not the end. It is the threshold to who we are becoming
The Architect of Soulful Transformation as a Holistic Grief Coach
Michele Cynthia is more than a grief coach—she is a holistic grief coach, a spiritual grief guide, and a healer who embodies transition at the soul level. As a “Holistic Life Architect,” she helps others rebuild identity and sacred purpose after trauma, loss, or spiritual disorientation. Her presence is not just felt—the soul recognizes it.
Her approach blends energy healing, trauma-informed wisdom, and intuitive modalities. Through practices like Soul Design™ and her proprietary framework, The 7 Stages of Grief®, Michele offers soul initiations, not just emotional relief—realignments with one’s highest spiritual truth.
Her private, invitation-only “Destination Unknown” retreats are sanctuaries of sacred transformation—guided by ancient wisdom, tailored to the soul’s edge, and cloaked in deep confidentiality.
But Michele’s reach extends beyond the mystic and metaphysical. Her deepest fire often burns for lost young adults—those wrestling with addiction, despair, and soul fragmentation. She doesn’t just help them survive. She helps them resurrect.
She does not see brokenness.
She sees emergence.
She sees what others overlook—and walks toward it.
Guardian for the Departing
As a Life Path 11, Michele walks the edge between seen and unseen. She is an end-of-life doula and spiritual midwife who stands at the threshold of death and transformation, offering clarity to those preparing for transition—and light to those who didn’t know they were still meant to live.
Whether guiding individuals through conscious dying, assisting families with palliative care, or supporting clients on the brink of emotional collapse, Michele’s work is rooted in soul-presence.
Her expertise includes:
Hospice and palliative care guidance
Spiritual and nutritional alignment
Energetic attunement for soul readiness
But beyond techniques, Michele is a frequency—a stabilizing vibration for those whose lives are unraveling.
A Pillar of Wisdom and Grace
Those who find Michele are not searching randomly—they are answering a soul summons. They feel the call before they understand it.
She is a vessel of ancestral knowing, a modern-day grief priestess with roots in a lineage of mystics, healers, and seekers who understood that healing is not learned—it is inherited.
Her presence is ancient, her voice familiar, her wisdom earned through fire and forgiveness.
“In my 59th orbit around the sun, this enduring journey has gifted me with the tools to navigate my disability gracefully and opened my authentic heart to help guide others out of the living hells they may not know their way out of…”
— Michele Cynthia
The Core Mission
Michele’s mission is soul-assigned: to walk with those at sacred thresholds—the edge of life, the depths of grief, the quiet hopelessness of trauma—and offer a way through.
She believes transitions are not endpoints; they are activations, opportunities to transmute pain into purpose and loss into light.
She does not rescue. She remembers.
She does not fix. She witnesses.
She does not promise escape. She offers alchemical transformation.
Holistic Grief Coaching with The Grief Warrior®
Whether you are grieving, spiritually adrift, or standing at a personal edge, Michele is here to walk beside you. Through her holistic grief coaching, end-of-life doula work, or transformational retreats, she offers tools, truth, and tenderness to those ready to return to themselves.
🔹 Psychology Today – Verified Grief Coach Profile
🔹 Daughters of Penelope – Delegate Member
🔹 APA – American Psychological Association
🔹 HFA – Hospice Foundation of America
🔹 IMPA – International Metaphysical Practitioners Association
🔹 EMPA – Energy Medicine Professional Association
Contact Michele today to begin the journey of healing and remembrance.
Are you ready to Pivot with Purpose?
Dear MiMi,
I don’t lead with letters after my name.
I lead with C.A.T.—
Compassion. Authenticity. Trust.
Not theory. Not therapy.
Just the kind of truth that knows how to hold you
when the world forgets how.
The Grief Warrior®
The Architect of Soulful Transformation as a Holistic Grief Coach