Grief 2 Growth Signature Program
A path through grief, walked together, one steady step at a time.
Single sessions help a lot of people. Sometimes, though, you don’t want to take this one hour at a time. You want a path, a rhythm, and someone walking beside you for the whole stretch.
That’s what this is.
We meet regularly over several weeks. The work builds on itself, so you’re not starting over each time we talk. You can reach me between sessions when something comes up. And along the way I send you follow-up content and resources chosen for where you actually are, not where a generic program assumes you should be.
I built this out of my own experience. After Shayna passed in 2015, I had to find my own way through, and I spent years studying grief, the afterlife, and how people actually heal. What I learned became this. When we work together, you’re working with someone who has been where you are.
Brian D. Smith is an author, podcaster, and coach serving people who feel “stuck” in life and are ready to bring out their fullest potential for well-being and thriving. Brian made his name working with people who have suffered loss and want to work through their grief and get back in the driver’s seat of their lives. He helps people ready for a reset in their lives because they feel it’s out of balance with their priorities or misaligned with their purpose. Brian’s approach is very different from traditional grief counseling. His comprehensive approached is steeped in experience.
Brian now shares the wisdom of his years of inquiry and personal development, along with techniques acquired as a life coach, grief educator, and mental health trainer, with his listeners, readers, students, and clients.
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Does this sound familiar?
If any of these resonate with you, keep reading.
If any of that sounds familiar, this is for you. It doesn’t matter whether your loss is a death, a divorce, a job, or a life that stopped looking the way you planned. Grief is grief.
“I did not hesitate to work with Brian. After reading the book, I was very excited to speak to someone with a similar experience who could offer help.
I liked that he understood where I was and that I could function again one day.
I have been able to work again, make decisions, and plan for the hard days. I figured out strategies for daily life. I learned to make decisions based on where I am at any given moment, not based on what makes sense to the old Kelly.
Brian was an absolute blessing to me. I hope he helps many others.
If you don’t have any idea how to function after losing a child, talk to Brian.”
What You Get
One-on-one Zoom sessions– Just you and me, focused entirely on you. You choose how many to start: 3, 6, or 8. You can always add more.
Personalized notes from each session– After every session, I send you detailed notes. During our sessions, you can focus on our conversation, resting assured that I will send you a comprehensive summary of our conversation along with what you’re doing right and what we can work on to do better.
Follow-up content– After our sessions, I send videos and emails that pick up where we left off, so the work keeps going between meetings.
Resources chosen for you– Books, tools, and practices I point you to because they fit where you are, not a one-size-fits-all reading list.
Access between sessions– Something comes up at 11 pm on a Tuesday? Text or email me. I answer as I’m able. My clients tell me these in-between moments matter as much as the sessions themselves.
What Makes the Grief 2 Growth GPS Signature Program Unique?
Unlike generalized self-help programs or traditional grief counseling, this is an intensely personalized, high-touch experience to address your specific pain points and aspirations.
One-on-One Zoom Sessions
Choose between 3, 6, or 8 tailored sessions, offering you undivided attention and focused guidance.
Personalized Follow-Up Content
Gain access to videos and emails that act as your guideposts on this healing journey.
Handpicked Resources
Receive customized recommendations for additional tools and readings to empower you further.
Premium Content
Unlock specially created resources that directly target your needs and questions.
Direct Access to Brian
Have a question or need clarity? Contact Brian via text or email throughout the program for real-time guidance.
What We Work On
Every journey is different, so we go where you need to go. That said, a few things come up for almost everyone.
🌟 Making sense of your grief
We look at what grief actually is and why it does what it does. We work through the guilt and the blame, the anger you might be holding toward yourself, a doctor, or even the person who left. And we name the old beliefs that are quietly keeping you stuck, so you can decide whether they’re still true.
🦋 Staying connected
You don’t have to learn to live without your person. You can learn to stay in a relationship with them. We look at signs, dreams, synchronicities, and the ways people stay connected after a death. I’ll also share what I’ve found in decades of studying near-death experiences, mediumship, and the evidence that the relationship doesn’t end.
🔮 The bigger questions
Why are we here? Where did your loved one go? What is any of this for? These questions get loud after a loss, and most people have nowhere to ask them out loud. We sit with them together. When you have a sense of why, the how gets easier to carry.
💜 Taking care of yourself
Grief is exhausting, and self-care is usually the first thing to go. I’ll help you build practices that fit a real life, including mindfulness that doesn’t require an hour of sitting still. Small, doable things that rebuild your resilience over time.
How It Works
You pick how many sessions you want to start with: 3, 6, or 8. Most people schedule about one a week, as life allows. There’s no wrong number. Start where you’re comfortable, and add more whenever you want to keep going.
This is built on the continuing bonds approach. Traditional grief counseling often tells people to let go and move on. I don’t believe you have to. The goal isn’t to get over your person. It’s to carry them with you in a way that lets you live again. A lot of my clients see a counselor too, and that’s completely fine. This works alongside it.
A note on faith: For some people, grief gets tangled up with religion, especially if you were raised to fear God or your church hasn’t given you the comfort you hoped for. I know that struggle from the inside. We can work through it here, and if it’s a big part of your story, I have a page just for that.
In Their Words
Brian Smith is a talented and compassionate person who went through one of the hardest things that can happen to a parent: losing a child. I met him during the darkest days of my soul after I lost my only child.
His knowledge of spirituality and science is impressive. I know that his devotion and compassion are going to help so many others find their true path.
Thank you, Brian, for the wonderful work that you do and for being such a bright light for so many of us.
Our time together was invaluable. Truly. You have an amazing ability to pinpoint life factors that affect grief management. This is a tricky, challenging subject full of tears.
Our sessions provided a great sense of awareness regarding what you can and cannot control as well as monitoring realistic expectations of those who surround me.
With your constant, compassionate support, I find myself climbing out of my mental black hole. It’s time to move forward and take life as it comes.
Thank you, Brian! You have reminded me of purpose and acceptance. You are one of my rocks of stability and one of life’s blessings.As you know, I came to you because I appreciated your experience and expertise regarding grief, planning, family issues, and spirituality.
I’ve learned a LOT about all those subjects- both from our conversations and from the resources and opportunities you suggested so I can learn on my own. I have clarified my plans for how I want my life to look now and in the future.
I am moving forward in learning some aspects of grief and healing that I was lacking in. Perhaps most importantly, you’ve helped me harness all I’ve learned in this journey to increase my self-confidence and move ahead.I chose to work with Brian because I’ve known him for over 10 years. That much time has given me the opportunity to see his integrity and heart. He’s an exceptional person in so many ways, and I’ve always felt lucky to have met him, even luckier to call him a friend. The chance to work directly with him was too incredible of an opportunity to pass up.
Do yourself a favor, don’t pass it up. Before I reached out to Brian, I was worried we wouldn’t vibe and that it might be awkward because of our friendship.
Brian is a great listener. He really made me feel heard and understood. His advice and perspective rang a bell of truth in my soul. Brian’s better than many therapists I’ve had. Brian helped me to feel a connection to humanity. I can call back on that when I’m feeling lonely. It’s easier to give myself permission to be loved, including to love myself. If you’re thinking about meeting up with him, do it. Don’t wait. He’s an amazing coach.When our teenage son Teo passed suddenly, we looked into traditional therapists to help with our shock and grief but realized quickly that Brian was a much better fit.
He brought a calming, supportive, non-judgmental, and strength-based approach to our coaching sessions. Instead of regarding our devastating grief as a problem to be fixed because he had gone through a similar experience with his daughter, he served as an inspiring role model and living proof that being fully in our grief (vs. suppressing it) could eventually take us to a place of post-traumatic growth.
Ongoing communication with our son has turned out to be an essential part of our healing, and we needed to speak with someone who understood rather than patronized. Brian is open-minded while being discerning, compassionate, and non-ideological. He has been an incredible support to us during the hardest times of our lives.
I would say that couples that may have different approaches to therapy, grief, and the idea that our loved ones are still alive probably couldn’t find a better guide through this impossible yet expansive journey. We both felt better every time we talked to Brian; I think you will too.I have been through a tremendously difficult time in my life following the losses of my father and my fiancé who passed away only 2 years apart. I was fortunate enough to have the support of Brian to help me through this challenging period.
From the very first meeting, I felt deeply understood due to the genuine warmth and empathy in our sessions.
Throughout our conversations, I felt completely at ease and secure in the knowledge that I was in a safe, non-judgmental space. Brian was open-minded, understanding, and always willing to listen to my thoughts and feelings. I will be forever grateful for the guidance and support that he provided.
I can honestly say that working with Brian helped me considerably in dealing with some intrusive thoughts and gave me the nudge I needed to start building a new life after loss. If you find yourself in a difficult time of bereavement, I would highly recommend booking a discovery session with Brian.
I love Brian’s calm manner and gentle approach.As someone who already has a background in mental health and loves self-help books and programs, I had no idea how much I would get out of the positive intelligence program. Learning about and becoming aware of how often my saboteurs interfere with my day-to-day thoughts and activities was very enlightening.
As someone pretty self-aware and committed to continual personal growth and improvement, I was surprised by how much my saboteurs were hijacking my thoughts. This program was enlightening, and I highly recommend it to anyone! It has helped me be more aware of and reframe my thoughts to be more compassionate with myself and others.I very much appreciated Saturday’s session. I like having conversations that include my partner Cecilie and touch on both the intensely emotional part of this process as well as the metaphysical and intellectual pieces that contribute to developing new understandings and perspectives on my child transitioning but being very present.
Afterward, I felt calmer and more hopeful. I like how I can make an appointment for a time that works for me, that I can talk about anything I need to and don’t have to script the conversation beforehand, and how you are a steady and very human presence.
Mostly I benefit from anything you say that helps me hope for my own future as I struggle to rebuild my life after the transition of my son since you’ve walked a similar path. Most days that’s what I need to know that someone else has done it in a positive way.Brian spoke to me about two months after my 15-year-old son had passed. He reassured me that our kids leave us signs and that they are always with us. He spoke about his beautiful daughter and her awesome spirit. He made me feel like grief was okay and that the process is something you must allow yourself to go through in order to grow. His energy for life and honoring grief is truly authentic.
If you are grieving and need to figure out how to grow from it, stay connected to your loved one, or just need a grief partner to listen to your thoughts, he is the guy!
Thanks, Brian, for everything!There are a lot of so-called “grief experts” out there whose attempts to teach and counsel fall short because they can only reference their own personal experiences. Brian has the unique ability to address grief from a more pluralistic perspective, drawing on his own loss experience but also creating a spacious place of listening and compassion for his clients. He doesn’t try to position himself as a guru. He is a wise teacher, but his humility makes all the difference.
Brian knows how to express complex ideas and unpack complicated emotions in a way that makes them understandable and easy to digest. He has a clear vision, spiritual depth, and a calming presence.
I’ve seen Brian captivate workshop audiences and guide classes into deep healing insights.I did not hesitate to work with Brian. After reading the book, I was very excited to speak to someone with a similar experience who could offer help.
I liked that you understood where I was and that I could possibly function again one day.
I have been able to work again, make decisions, and plan for the hard days. I figured out strategies for daily life. I learned to make decisions based on where I am at any given moment, not based on what makes sense to the old Kelly.
Brian was an absolute blessing to me. I hope that he helps many others.
If you don’t have any idea how to function after losing a child, talk to Brian.Brian gave an insightful and cohesive lecture on the process of grief and healing at one of my mediumship groups. He discussed the impact of loss and how people receive information during a reading. Touching on key topics, he helped my community of healers understand the different stages of grief and the importance of sensitivity. It was a unique experience that benefitted my class to better understand the perspective of the sitter.
About 4 years ago my son was murdered. As a cradle Catholic, I naturally leaned on my church family for support and understanding. While I did receive an abundance of love and support, the understanding was not there. The Catholic religion teaches that if we live by the doctrines of the church we will live for eternity in the light of God through the sacrifice of Jesus. I fully believed this but did not really grasp the reality of the words. I was told to just have faith and that heaven is a mystery not to be understood. These thoughts created fear and anxiety for me but I could not just accept it.
I knew my son was living because he kept revealing it to me in miraculous ways that began within days after he transitioned but I could not share this with my church family for fear of rejection and ridicule.
My son was also a cradle Catholic. He believed in Jesus but did not agree with all the doctrines of the church. He was a compassionate, kind and joyful human being and sometimes troubled. He wore a sleeve tattoo of the face of a suffering Jesus crowned with thorns and a caption that read “God save me”.
Brian’s work through Grief 2 Growth has given me that understanding. His wealth of knowledge about religion, spirituality and the afterlife has helped me to integrate my faith with my spirituality. I am now learning and growing outside the guilt and restrictions of religion and even though I will always grieve the loss of my son’s physical presence, I feel joy because I now understand that he lives on. All is well with my soul.
Peace & Blessings,
When I think about what makes working with Brian so valuable, it comes down to his deep understanding of matters of the heart—grief, family, and the complex ways they intertwine. His energy is a perfect match for my life, not just because of his experience but because of how he manages his thoughts and aligns them with the possible outcomes. That mindset alone creates a space where real change feels possible.
One of the biggest benefits I’ve found in working with Brian is realizing that my struggles aren’t mine alone. Grief can feel isolating, but understanding that others have walked this path too makes a world of difference. At the same time, I know that shifting my behavior and responses is something only I can do—Brian doesn’t try to “fix” anything for me. Instead, he guides me to see what’s within my power to change.
What stands out most about our conversations is the balance. It’s not just about being heard; it’s about being understood. I spoke, I listened. He heard, he responded. That kind of exchange is rare—it’s uplifting. And honestly, I wouldn’t change anything about the way he works.
If someone is searching for guidance in their grief, if they need help navigating loss, I would tell them: Brian is a safe place. He’s been there. He understands. And sometimes, just knowing someone like him is there—that’s all we really need.Working with Brian has been one of the most supportive experiences of my grief journey. The notes he sends after each session are something I’ve never seen anyone else do, and they’ve been incredibly helpful. On the days when I feel like I’m not making much progress, those notes remind me that I actually am.
This grief road is brutal—especially around holidays and anniversaries—and Brian has helped me navigate some of the hardest moments of my life. He’s given me a space to talk openly about my pain and the love I still have for my wife, Theresa. I truly believe she’s with me in spirit, and Brian has helped me strengthen that connection.
When I’m struggling, my daughter will ask, ‘When are you meeting with Brian?’ That says everything about the impact he’s had.
Talking with Brian has helped me get through mornings that felt unbearable. He listens, he understands, and he guides without judgment. Even though I still wake up with a heavy heart and waves of sorrow, I know I’m not walking this alone.
I appreciate Brian more than I can say. He’s helped me move in the right direction, even when I couldn’t see it myself. I’ll continue booking sessions because his support has truly been a lifeline for me during the most difficult year of my life.
— Pat
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“I have been through a tremendously difficult time in my life following the loss of my father and my fiancé who passed only two years apart. I was fortunate enough to have the support of Brian to help me through this challenging period.
From the very first meeting, I felt deeply understood due to the genuine warmth and empathy in our sessions.
Throughout our conversations, I felt completely at ease and secure in the knowledge that I was in a safe, non-judgemental space. Brian was open-minded, understanding, and always willing to listen to my thoughts and feelings. I will be forever grateful for the guidance and support he provided.
I can honestly say that working with Brian helped me considerably in dealing with some intrusive thoughts and gave me the nudge I needed to start building a new life after loss.
If you find yourself in a difficult time of bereavement, I would highly recommend booking a discovery session with Brian”
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