Redefining Widowhood is a faith-centered space for women walking through widowhood—whether your loss is recent, your grief feels heavy, or you’re quietly longing to move forward while honoring the love you shared.
Here you’ll find:
Faith-filled encouragement for your grieving heart
Honest, compassionate conversations about widowhood
Gentle guidance for emotional and spiritual healing
Reminders that your life still holds meaning and purpose
Through ministry, counseling, and coaching, Redefining Widowhood is here to help you take gentle steps towards living again.
You are not alone—you are seen, valued, and supported.
With care + compassion,
Carmen Andrea
Founder | Certified Life Coach | Certified Grief Counselor


Hi, I’m Carmen Andrea.
I’m a homeschool mom, former teacher, and forever educator with a Master of Arts in Teaching. As a part of my healing process, I became a Certified Life Coach, Certified Grief Counselor, and Inner Healing & Deliverance Certified Practitioner. I was widowed at 38 when my daughters were ages 4 and 7.
Redefining Widowhood began as a place to share hope — not as someone who “figured it all out,” but as a woman faithfully walking her own healing journey.
This ministry, counseling, and wellness space will always be rooted in faith, compassion, and honesty.
The Early Days: 30 Days of Support After Loss
If you have recently lost your husband, the world may feel unfamiliar and unsteady—like everything that once made sense has shifted beneath your feet.
Sacred Ground was created for this exact season.
This is a private, counselor-led support container for the early days of widowhood, when grief is fresh, the nervous system is overwhelmed, and simply getting through the day can feel like an accomplishment. There is no pressure here to heal, to explain, or to know what comes next.
Sacred Ground offers a place to be held with steadiness and care while everything else feels uncertain.
Nothing is required of you.
You are welcome exactly as you are.
Investment & Availability
Sacred Ground — The Early Days
A 30-Day Support Container for New Widows
Investment: $777
This includes 30 days of private, stabilizing support designed specifically for the earliest season of widowhood.
This is not a course or a self-guided program—it’s a container created to help you stay emotionally grounded during the first weeks after loss.
Capacity & Enrollment
To ensure each woman receives the level of care this season requires, Sacred Ground is intentionally limited in capacity.
Only 3-5 private clients are accepted at a time
Enrollment opens as space becomes available
This allows for presence, steadiness, and ethical care—not volume support
If Sacred Ground is currently full, you may request to be notified when the next opening becomes available.
Is Sacred Ground Right For You?
Sacred Ground is designed for women who are in the earliest days of widowhood and are seeking steady, private support—not pressure to heal or move forward.
This container may be right for you if you:
Have recently lost your husband and feel emotionally unsteady, foggy, or overwhelmed
Are functioning on the outside, but struggling on the inside
Want support that is calm, faith-honoring, and trauma-aware
Need a place where nothing is required of you—not strength, insight, or progress
Desire private support rather than a group setting right now
You do not need to know what you need yet.
You do not need to explain your grief.
You do not need to be ready to “do the work”.
Being here is enough.
Sacred Ground May Not Be The Right Fit If You:
Are looking for crisis or emergency mental health services
Want intensive trauma processing or long-term therapy
Are not currently in a season of early or acute grief
A Gentle Note
Sacred Ground is not about fixing grief.
It is about being held while grief is new and heavy.
If your body softened even slightly while reading this, this space was likely created with you in mind.

Grief does not end when the fog lifts—it changes.
There often comes a time when the initial shock has softened, and new questions begin to surface:
Who am I now?
How do I carry what I’ve lost and still live?
What does healing look like beyond survival?
When that season arrives, some women find they are ready for deeper inner healing, meaning-making, and restoration work—work that is less about stabilization and more about integration.

Pathway For Joy is a separate space created for women who are no longer in acute grief, but who are ready to tend to what grief has touched beneath the surface.
This work may include:
deeper emotional and spiritual healing
faith-centered inner restoration
identity and life integration after loss or transition
ongoing counseling and guided support
Pathway For Joy is not about rushing forward or leaving grief behind.
It is about learning how to live with honesty, tenderness, and renewed capacity.
No Pressure. Only Right Timing.
You are not expected to know when—or if—this next step is right for you.
Sacred Ground exists to hold you now.
Pathway For Joy exists for later, when your heart has more room to engage.
You are welcome to explore that space whenever it feels appropriate for your season.
Healing unfolds in layers. Support should, too.
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© 2026 Carmen Andrea | Redefining Widowhood