Ayana the Grief Coach 

Ayana Thomas is a compassionate grief counselor, community leader, and founder of  Ayana Thomas Initiative LLC and Grieving Back to Life. With a deep commitment to helping women especially Black and Brown women impacted by trauma, incarceration, and loss Ayana creates healing spaces rooted in resilience, restoration, and radical honesty. Drawing from her education and own lived experiences with grief, trauma, Ayana offers trauma-informed coaching, reentry support, court mandated grief counseling and transformative group workshops that honor both pain and possibility.

Ayana Thomas Initiative LLC

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Clients may cancel or reschedule appointments up to 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

Deposits are non-refundable.

Rescheduling is allowed one time only and must be requested at least 24 hours in advance.

If the appointment is missed or canceled with less than 24 hours’ notice, the deposit will be forfeited.

Ayana Thomas

Sip with intention.
Write what you’ve been carrying.
This is more than a mug. It is a moment to pause, reflect, and give your thoughts a place to land.

 Grief is hard. Finding help doesn’t have to be. This book is not self-help. It is a grief education and healing-rights curriculum designed to name, understand, and respond to grief in all its forms. As a professional grief coach and the creator of AYANA’s Grief Method, I developed this work to address a gap I see every day: people navigating profound loss without language, context, or access to support. Grief is too often treated as a personal weakness rather than what it truly is—a personal, collective, and systemic experience shaped by trauma, injustice, survival, and harm. I developed this work to address a gap I see every day: people navigating profound loss without language, context, or access to support. Grief is too often treated as a personal weakness rather than what it truly is—a personal, collective, and systemic experience shaped by trauma, injustice, survival, and harm.
Rooted in AYANA’s Grief Method, this book expands grief beyond death alone. 

GRIEVING BACK TO LIFE

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