Being a thought leader gifted with the ability to helpfully use words and pour meaningful experience into her work has helped bring Rae Karim a long way. Her skills have made her a best-selling author, writer, speaker, and a champion of grief. The influencer is also passionate about helping people overcome the overwhelming burden it often brings to people.
Rae Karim brings education as well as her own experiences to the table to let fellow grievers know they are not alone on the journey. As a grief coach, she uses strategies to help grievers navigate their grief journey in the healthiest ways possible. As a grief consultant, she assists with planning and officiating services and initiating and finalizing business. Rae also facilitates grief retreats and conducts workshops on grief in schools, churches, and organizations. In all she does, Rae empowers and transforms lives, committed to ensuring she ignites courage on purpose.
“Not only do I offer individual and group coaching, but I am also an advocate for grief support by community engagement. Such engagement consists of monthly events such as Pen the Pain, an expression of grief through art, workshops that explore the theological perspective of grief, one-day retreats, and five-day retreats,” shared the grief coach.
The retreats include workshops about grief, ways to practice self-care while grieving by massage, cooking, and activities that help grievers discover that grief doesn’t have to be burdensome.
“As I understand that grief due to death can be an intense journey, I offer grief support services to relieve some of the task-oriented pressure through writing obituaries and programs, and other errands that come with arranging and preparing for funeral services,” said Rae.
Her heart goes out to the grievers. She is eager to help grievers who no longer want to be weighed down by the seeming burden of grief. She is for those who know that grief has stopped them in their tracks, but they want to keep moving.
“I am for those who want to explore every aspect of grief, the known and the unknown, that we’d unpack as they work with me. I am for those who have experienced or are experiencing the grief of people, those who have passed and those still alive and the grief of possibilities. Those who have experienced or are experiencing the grief of identity and from trauma. I am for those looking for a safe, liberated space to lay down their burdens of grief and pick up new ways of being even in the midst of the grief experience,” said the compassionate coach.
Five years from now Rae sees herself having helped to revolutionize grief perspectives because of what people grieve about, how and why people grieve. Rae would like to offer a curriculum to educate those in service professions like the social workers, pastors, chaplains, doctors, and nurses.
“I especially hope to increase the knowledge of grief and grief expression for corporate America, in ways that will increase bereavement leave not only for adults but children as well,” added Rae.
