About

Meet Lisa.

On January 1, 2019, I lost my 25-year-old son Chandler.

The pain was deep, excruciating, disorienting, relentless. It was also an opportunity to do things differently.

Losing Chandler wasn't the first time my world had been turned upside down. At the age of 18, I experienced the loss of my mother to lung cancer. In my youth, and in my pain, I did all the wrong things, mistaking denial for strength and suppression for resilience. The result was a backlog of emotion that led to nightmares, unresolved anger, and a general inability to accept and move through the reality of losing my mom.

When I arrived at January 1, 2019, I had lived enough life, suffered enough negative consequences from unhealthy choices, garnered enough education, and gleaned enough wisdom from a wide variety of sources that I knew there was a better way, a healthier way, to process and move through my grief. First, Brush Your Teeth is the real-time, daily carving out of my better way.

There's no way around it. Grief is a heavy, often seemingly unbearable, weight to carry. A weight that you earned because you loved. Consider me a trusted voice — here to support and equip you to move through the grief process in a way that honors you and your loved one.

In case you're interested...

I am a mother of four who has been married 38 years to her college sweetheart. I have two puppies — Blu the goldendoodle and Pepper the wienie dog. I love hiking, playing with my pups, hanging out with family and friends, reading, and learning new things. Also, chocolate. And kombucha.