Uma Girish is a grief guide, life purpose coach, and award-winning author. With an International Diploma in Teaching and Training from Cambridge University in the UK, a certification in Dream Coaching, and mentoring with some of the top experts in the grief and loss industry, she helps people move through their grief and loss to live lives of joy, meaning, and purpose. She has trained and served as a hospice volunteer, sitting by the bedsides of the dying, and holding space for their friends and families.

Uma’s view of healing is rooted in a deep connection with the Divine. It was her personal loss — that of her mother in India — eight months after she and her family moved to Chicago that led her down the path of grief healing. As she learned the tools she needed to heal her own pain, she gained clarity about what she was meant to do with that pain. Using her pain to serve others became her mission.

Uma’s first book, Understanding Death: 10 Ways to Inner Peace for the Grieving, addresses the top 10 questions most grievers have about grief, loss, the soul’s journey, death, dying, and reincarnation. Uma’s second book, a transformational memoir titled Losing Amma, Finding Home: A Memoir About Love, Loss, and Life’s Detours, tells the story of how her mother’s death completely shifted the course of her life. Her third book, Lessons From Grace: What a Baby Taught Me About Living and Loving, captures life lessons inspired by a spitting, drooling baby. Baby Grace reminds us that we all started life as pure essence, trusting in the perfection of divine guidance. We lost our way and forgot our origins, but we can relearn the values of simplicity, joy, and presence.

Uma writes a blog titled The Grammar of Grief and hosted a podcast by the same name. She has interviewed experts on topics related to grief, loss, resilience, and rebounding with purpose.