Jan Warner
Jan Warner has used her Master's in Counseling degree and her training in NLP and hypnotherapy while working in child abuse prevention and suicide prevention. When her beloved husband Artie died nine years she felt as though she had died too. She decided to honor his memory by making herself available to grieving people the way he, as a recovering alcoholic, had made himself available to alcoholics and addicts. Jan decided it would give her life meaning even if she only reached one person. Now, she has a Facebook page, that is a supportive worldwide community with over 2.5 million likes. She is the author of Grief Day by Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living With Loss. She has produced documentary films and an Off Broadway pla
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