About Me
My personal journey through grief became the foundation for my calling - bringing comfort, compassion, and guidance to others.
Beecher’s eldest daughter, Lucy, was eight-years-old when she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Navigating this experience was a devastating and profoundly life changing experience for Beecher.
When Lucy passed in 2006, Beecher took her hard earned learnings from Lucy’s life, illness, and death and channeled them into supporting families like hers.
Through her organization Lucy’s Love Bus, Beecher took inspiration from Lucy’s experience - bringing the benefits of integrative therapies to children managing the side effects traditional cancer treatments. And as a board member for childhood cancer charity, Rett’s Roost, she provides 1:1 grief support for newly bereaved parents at their retreat programs.
For the past 20 years, Beecher has worked with children facing life-threatening illnesses - and she brings that experience to bear through Bittersweet End-of-Life Doula Care.
The journey for children and their families is overwhelming and can entail complex medical decisions, spiritual and emotional pain, and a host of layered emotions. As an end-of-life doula Beecher helps the dying child and their family navigate this intense time with curiosity instead of fear. She holds space for the waves of emotion and intense feelings that arise, allowing families to fully experience the love behind those emotions, and support their child in the process of attaining peace and closure at end-of-life.
The path of grief is never linear - and through her Bittersweet Grief Support sessions - Beecher meets families at all stages of their journey.
Losing a child is a deeply devastating and disorienting experience. Her personal and professional experience has allowed her to do the the deep work and training to enable her to provide Grief Support to parents and siblings learning to live with the powerful emotions and seismic life shifts created by an such enormous and profound loss.
Beecher finds peace in her daily life through the day-to-day labor of running her small far in Maine, and caring for it’s many animals. She also finds time to explore her creative side - writing and crafting her natural, plant-based skin line Blue Heron Herbals.
She finds great joy in her two surviving children- Eli (20), who is studying sustainable agriculture at University of Maine Orono, and Willow (28) is an artist living in New York City. Willow graduated from School of Visual Arts in Manhattan where they studied film and photography.
Lucy was Beecher’s oldest child and keeps a close eye on her younger siblings. She sends signs and messages on special days through monarch butterflies, four-leaf clovers, hummingbirds, and great blue herons. Lucy would have turned 32 in 2026.
Bittersweet End-of-Life Doula Care and Grief Counseling
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