When my husband died I felt an intensity of grief I had not anticipated. My husband was a recovering alcoholic who spent his sober life being available to other alcoholics and addicts. In order to honor him I decided to make myself available to other grieving people, thinking if I reached one person that would be enough. I started a blog. Stop Thief Don’t Steal My Grief, www. griefspeaksout.net has many hits per month even though I don't write new posts.

My Facebook page Grief Speaks Out, www.facebook.com/GriefSpeaksOut, has 7 posts every day and 2.4 million likes. My book, Grief Day by Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss has over 2000 reviews on Amazon - the majority of them five star. I have been a guest on podcasts and radio shows. I will be hosting live Master Classes on Circle App. The best way to see all I have done is to Google Jan Warner and grief .

I have an eclectic life. I co-produced a conference called The Resilience of the Human Spirit which inspired the short documentary Poetry of Resilience. The speakers at this conference were poets who had survived genocide and political terror. I have been executive producer and creative consultant on other documentaries and was an associate producer for the off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Two Character Play and produced an off Broadway play with Hayley Mills called Party Face. I am currently presenting the musical SuperYou opening in London in the spring after it's concert version debuted at Carnegie Hall . I used my Masters in Counseling degree and training in NLP and hypnotherapy to work in child abuse prevention and suicide prevention.

I have been to all seven continents including countries like North Korea, Pakistan and Libya.

My favorite role in life is being a grandmother.