Rooted in presence.
Devoted to Transformation.
*A companion for life’s most tender thresholds—grief, healing, growth, and the pulse of what’s next.*
You've lived through something.
Loss. Change. Illness. Awakening. A rupture in the story you were told—or the one you were living. You’re not who you were. And the world isn’t the same.
Maybe you’re walking with grief. Or trying to make sense of something that doesn’t make sense. Maybe you feel like you’re straddling two worlds. One foot in the before, one in the not-quite-yet.
If any of that sounds familiar, you’re in the right place.
I work with people just like you who are navigating threshold moments—death, divorce, diagnosis, awakening, and identity shifts of all kinds. People whose old maps don’t work anymore. People who are looking for refuge while they find their way home.
This work is part healing, part guidance, part ceremony, and part re-mapping. We walk together, one breadcrumb at a time, through the dark forest of transformation—until you remember what your own heart sounds like. Until the ground feels solid again. Until you begin to recognize the landscape of your life as something that belongs to you, and not just something that happened to you.
You don’t have to do this alone.
I'm Cherie.
I’ve been walking beside people for over 18 years—through grief, change, trauma, and awakening. I’m a death doula, a somatic facilitator, and a longtime spiritual practitioner. I’ve also been the one crawling through the mud, undone by loss and transfigured by love.
My work blends presence, reverence, and practical guidance. I’m not here to fix you or promise a tidy resolution. I’m here to walk with you as you remember yourself. As you reclaim your life. As you follow the trail home.
My Promise
I won’t offer you false certainty.
I won’t rush your process.
I won’t treat your pain like a problem to solve.
But I will listen closely.
I will honor your story.
I will help you feel your feet on the ground again.
This isn’t about getting back to normal.
It’s about finding the thread.
The pulse.
The way home.
How I can support you
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**She Stands Gatherings**
Join intimate, in-person & virtual events that weave breath, rhythm, ritual, and reflection. These circles are spaces of belonging and quiet revolution—a return to our collective heartbeat.
**Somatic Tech Offerings**
Reclaim your nervous system and reawaken your attention. These events explore what we lose and gain in the digital world, and how we can live (and design) from wisdom.
**Speaking & Workshops**
I speak on death, healing, presence, and ethical technology. Whether in business, spiritual, or creative communities, I help people feel what matters—and act from there.
This work is for you if:
* You are grieving the death of a loved one, a dream, or a version of yourself
* You are a changemaker, leader, or creator seeking embodied resilience
* You are at the edge of something new—birth, death, diagnosis, divorce, awakening
* You are longing to feel more *present*, more *real*, more *alive*
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THE THREAD THROUGH IT ALL
The Work
This work is for the threshold moments—the ones that change you.
It’s for the raw, real places where you feel undone, and the quiet call that says: *there’s more than just surviving here.*
I’m not here to fix you. I’m here to walk with you as you remember your own capacity to feel, to stand, to heal, to lead, to love.
What I know to be true.
This work is not a performance.
It’s not about looking spiritual, being “healed,” or following a five-step formula to fix your life.
There are no shortcuts to wholeness. No bypassing the mess.
A good life includes grief, joy, pain, uncertainty—and all of it belongs.
You’re not broken. Life is just hard sometimes. That doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong.
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Healing isn’t something you chase.
It’s something you build—slowly, honestly, in the body, breath, and choices.
It’s not about finding a practice to keep you busy forever.
It’s about laying a foundation to love, act, and speak from—one rooted in clarity, courage, and self-trust.
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Spirituality should make you a better relative.
To the earth.
To your community.
To your own grief, rage, and beauty.
Otherwise, it’s just another form of escape.
Ceremony without integration is empty.
Wisdom without relationship is performative.
Peak experience without practice is a sugar high.
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This work is for the ones who are done pretending.
The ones who want to meet life as it is.
The ones who know that presence is enough—and that joy, connection, and peace are byproducts of living honestly, not goals to be chased.
Let’s not aim for “healed.”
Let’s aim for human.
Let’s walk each other home.
If something in you is stirring… if you’ve been carrying the weight quietly, wondering if anyone sees you—this is your sign. Let’s talk.
About Me.
I’m a death doula, grief specialist, and somatic facilitator—here to support you through life’s most profound changes.
Whether you’re navigating loss, seeking meaning, or learning to live more fully in your body, I offer grounded, compassionate guidance through 1:1 support, workshops, and collective experiences.
I also speak and teach on the future of conscious technology, presence-based leadership, and what it means to live and die well.
About She Stands.
She Stands is a movement rooted in the heart of humanity. We gather in rhythm and reverence to awaken a more compassionate, equitable, and connected world—one heartbeat at a time. Through collective presence, ceremony, and shared pulse, we stand for nonviolence, for belonging, and for the sacred power of choosing peace. From intimate circles to a 100,000-person gathering on the National Mall, She Stands invites us to remember: we are more alike than different, and our differences can be a bridge. We are the hands, the heart, and the voice of a new way forward.