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Grief Coaching
Community, structure and hope for parents and siblings living with the loss of a child, or with estrangement from one. We walk you from mourning to light.
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You are not alone
If you are here, something happened that should not have happened.
Maybe it was last month. Maybe it was years ago and everyone else has moved on. Either way, you went looking for a page about grief tonight, and that usually means today was heavy.
Nothing has gone wrong with you. These are ordinary responses to a loss that is not ordinary.
- Exhaustion that sleep does not touch
- Weeping at something small, and standing dry-eyed at the funeral
- Losing the word you were reaching for, mid-sentence
- Anger that frightens you a little
- Guilt over decisions nobody could have made better
- A moment of ordinary happiness, followed by shame for having it
- Friends who went quiet once they ran out of things to say
You are not failing at grief. You are grieving. And you are welcome here exactly as you are.
Why this is different
Child loss is not ordinary grief, and ordinary support does not reach it
Most grief advice was written for losing a parent at the end of a long life. It does not reach a family that has buried a child, or a family living with a child who is still alive and will not speak to them.
Grief that gets stuck
Losing a child can lead to what is called complicated grief, where mourning does not soften with time but sets hard around you. Kathryn built the added curriculum to help you avoid that, or to walk you back out of it.
The losses after the loss
It rarely stops at one. Marriages strain and end. Surviving children pull away under the weight. Grandchildren disappear from your life. Every one of those is its own bereavement, and almost nobody says so out loud.
Grief with no funeral
When a child or a grandchild cuts contact there is no service and no sympathy card. Nobody sends anything at all. The loss is total and the world will not call it a loss. Kathryn calls it cut off culture, and here it is treated as exactly what it is. Grief.
Support that does not expire
The world gives a bereaved family about two weeks of attention. The grief lasts the rest of their life. Jonny’s Angels exists to stand in that gap, for as long as you need us there.
A message from Kathryn
I’ve walked through losses most people cannot imagine.
A three-year illness brought me to Heaven’s door, where I was miraculously healed and shown what lay ahead so I could help others. I had already lost my two precious baby girls before they ever set foot on earth. When I returned from Heaven, I knew what was coming: the passing of my mother, my father, my brother, and then my beautiful 28-year-old son, Jonny. One after another, they suddenly went home to Heaven.
That kind of trauma, especially child loss, can lead to something called complicated grief. And that affected me as well, even though I knew ahead of time. That’s why I wrote the curriculum to prevent complicated grief or help someone going through it. Because up to 60% of parents who lose adult children can experience complicated grief. Whether it is the loss to their grandchildren, sibling alienation, it is complicated. There is no blame here.
But through all my losses, I found joy. Real, sustaining joy, and if I can find light so can you.
Kathryn Anderson
Founder · licensed minister · angel mom to Jonny
Our prayer and mission is to ensure no parent or sibling feels isolated in their grief. The heart of Jonny’s Angels
Jonny’s Angels on YouTube
Hear it in her own voice
Kathryn talks the way she listens: straight, warm, and from the inside of this loss. Short talks on grief, estrangement, faith, signs from Heaven and the twelve steps, filmed on her porch. The Jonny’s Angels channel is new, and she is adding to it week by week.
Start with the one below. It is eleven minutes on finding peace when a child or grandchild has cut you off, the loss nobody sends a card for.
Free, no account needed to watch. Subscribing just means YouTube tells you when there is a new one.
Kathryn also has a second channel for her children’s books.
The weekly rhythm
What a meeting is actually like
Nobody should have to walk into a room, even a room on Google Meet, without knowing what is waiting on the other side. So here it is plainly.
The 12-step program
Free, and open to anyone. One step at a time from mourning toward light, worked through with people who already understand. Most people begin here.
The community meeting
Our weekly gathering. A living room on Google Meet where you are welcomed by name, where you can talk about your ick and still be loved, and where cut off culture is understood as grief whether it follows a loss or stands on its own.
You do not have to speak.
Plenty of people sit quietly for their first few weeks. Being witnessed is enough.
You do not have to be religious.
Kathryn’s story has her faith in it. The circle welcomes every belief and none, and nobody will preach at you.
You do not have to be a mother.
Fathers, siblings, grandparents and estranged parents all have a full seat.
You do not have to be newly bereaved.
Some of us lost our child last year. Some of us lost them twenty years ago. Grief does not keep a calendar.
Start here
Start with the free 12 steps
Leave your details and Kathryn will send you everything you need for this Tuesday. Nothing to pay, nothing to commit to, nothing to prepare.
Kathryn sends the invitations, meeting reminders and a weekly word of encouragement. Unsubscribe any time. We never share your email.
When you are ready
The other ways we walk with you
None of this is where you start. The free program is. But when you want to go further, this is what is waiting.
The weekly community
Thursday nights on Google Meet, for angel parents, siblings, and parents and grandparents living with cut off culture.
The Grief-to-Light Journal
Morning grounding and evening release, written for the days you cannot see how to carry.
Coaching with Kathryn
One to one on Google Meet, anywhere in the world. Deep listening from someone who has walked this exact road.
Caring Listeners
Volunteers who will pick up when you are in crisis and need to talk. Free, any time, matched by Kathryn herself.
The books
The 12-Step Manual and Workbook, Kathryn’s own diary of the years after Jonny, and gentle stories for children.
A group near you
Look up your state to see where Jonny’s Angels is already meeting in person, or start the first one.
Answers
The things people ask first
Who is Jonny’s Angels for?
Angel parents who have lost a child, siblings grieving a brother or a sister, and parents and grandparents living with estrangement. Kathryn calls that cut off culture. It can follow a loss or stand entirely on its own. Both are grief, and both are welcome.
What happens in the Thursday meetings?
We gather on Google Meet at 7:30pm EST. You are welcomed by name, invited to share as much or as little as you want, and witnessed by people carrying the same wound. Full details are on the support page.
Is the 12-step program really free?
Yes. It meets Tuesdays at 11am EST and it is free when you leave your email. It is a structured path built to renew your mind, find peace, and turn mourning into light.
Is this therapy?
No. Jonny’s Angels is peer support and coaching from lived experience. It is not licensed therapy or medical care, and it is not a replacement for either. If you are in immediate crisis in the US, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
I am not religious. Will I still feel at home?
Kathryn’s story has her faith in it, and the community welcomes every belief and none. Come as you are. All you need is the wound and a willingness to be seen.
Is Jonny’s Angels only for mothers?
No. Fathers, mothers, siblings, and estranged parents and grandparents all have a full seat in the circle. Grief does not check titles, and neither do we.
How do I find a group near me?
Use the state lookup on our groups page. If nothing meets in your state yet, the online group welcomes you every Thursday, and two books are all it takes to start a local one.
What is an angel parent?
An angel parent is a mother or a father who has lost a child, at any age. The child is their angel child. You never stop being their parent, and here you never have to pretend otherwise. More on the name.
You do not have to carry this alone.
Start with the free 12 steps this Tuesday. Nothing to pay and nothing to prepare. Just come.