About Angie Cartwright (The short Version) At the tender age of five, Angie found her baby sister Erica dead. From that point forward, Angie watched her mother struggle in a society that was afraid of, and didnt understand, grief. Thus began a lifelong relationship with loss and sorrow that that would also include losing both a grandfather and uncle to suicide, her newlywed husband in a horrific car crash, and the tragic death of her mother who died of an unintended drug overdose in 2010. Fueled by all her losses, Angie set out to change how our culture understands and views grief. Shortly after her mothers passing in 2010, Angie founded Grief the Unspoken, a conglomerate of open and closed groups on Facebook with over half a million followers. To help educate and raise awareness about the lifelong impact of grief, Angie founded National Grief Awareness Day and is spearheading a petition to have August 30, her mothers birthday, legally declared as National Grief Awareness Day. She is also co-host of Grief Hangout with Tom Sweetman Joining collaborative forces with Lynda Cheldelin Fell, together they wrote a workbook for grievers called My Grief Diary, and most recently created Grief Diaries Radio Show & Grief Diaries: On the Road to offer comfort and hope to grievers around the world while raising grief awareness and education. Angie is board president of the nonprofit National Grief Awareness Day, co-creator and Executive Media Director of Grief Diaries, Director of Social Marketing for Good Grief Worldwide, and pens a blog called Grief the Unspoken. A mother of four and grandmother of three, Angie lives in her home state of Kansas.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:37:27 +0000
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