Grief, Trauma & Life Coach in Strathmore, Alberta
Julie Hosack
I’m Julie Hosack — a grief, trauma, and life coach based in Strathmore, Alberta. I provide trauma-informed coaching for individuals navigating loss, identity shifts, and life after everything changed — supporting clients across Canada and worldwide through online coaching.
This isn't about fixing you. It's about supporting you through what you've been holding; while giving you the tools, guidance and space to start feeling like yourself again in a way that feels safe, understood and real.
This Work Didn’t Just Come From A Textbook. It Came From My Life.
From the moments that broke me. The ones that changed me. The ones I had to find my way through… even when I didn’t know how.
I work with people locally and virtually who are navigating grief, trauma, loss, and identity shifts — especially those who feel like what they’re going through is too complex, too heavy, or too hard to explain for traditional support.
I work with people who are functioning on the outside… but struggling on the inside.
The ones who are still showing up. Still doing what needs to be done. Still holding everything together for everyone else.
But underneath all of that… something feels off.
Something has shifted.
And they don’t feel like themselves anymore.
My Story: From Grief, Trauma, and Loss to Healing
Hope & Healing Co wasn’t just a name I chose. It’s something I lived my way into.
There was a time in my life where hope didn’t exist anymore — not in a poetic way, not in a “stay positive” kind of way. I mean truly gone.
Life didn’t just challenge me — it shattered me.
Within a short period of time, I experienced losses that most people couldn’t imagine. I lost two of my grandsons. My partner was diagnosed with terminal cancer. My son went missing, leaving me with no answers and no closure. At the same time, I was supporting children struggling with addiction.
It felt like everything was falling apart at once.
There were long stretches where I wasn’t living.
I was surviving. But survival wasn’t the end of my story…"
How Healing Began
Healing didn’t begin because everything got better. It began because someone sat with me in it.
Someone who didn’t try to fix me.
Someone who didn’t rush me.
Someone who held hope for me when I couldn’t hold it myself.
And slowly… something began to shift.
Not all at once. But enough to begin again.
Something feels heavy.
And you can't quite explain it.
You've been trying to put words to it. Maybe you've searched for answers in the middle of the night. Maybe
you've sat with the question quietly for weeks — without finding anything that actually fits.
Before you try to fix it, you deserve to understand it.
A gentle place to start putting words to what’s been sitting quietly underneath everything
This guide is for you.
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Training, Experience & Trauma-Informed Approach
This work is built from lived experience — not just training. I understand what it means to carry grief that doesn’t have closure. To live with trauma that changes how you feel, think, and move through the world. To navigate loss that isn’t always visible or understood. To question your identity after everything has changed. But this work is also supported by the training and education that allows me to guide others in a grounded, responsible, and intentional way.
As a Grief, Trauma & Life Coach, I Combine:
Lived experience
navigating complex grief and trauma
Training
in grief, trauma, and life coaching
Ongoing professional development
through coaching programs and certifications, including life coaching studies and grief practitioner education
Trauma-informed coaching methods
that prioritize emotional safety and nervous system awareness
Emotional and nervous system regulation tools
to help you feel more grounded and supported
A holistic approach to healing
that integrates grief, trauma, identity, and life transitions
This is not surface-level support. And it’s not one-size-fits-all.
It’s real, grounded, deeply human work — for the parts of your experience that don’t always have words.
Not polished. Not perfect. But honest, steady, and deeply human.
My work helps you move from survival → to understanding → to rebuilding a life that feels like yours again.
My Mission as a Grief & Trauma Coach
This work is grounded in a simple belief: No one should have to carry this alone.
My mission is to walk alongside people navigating grief, trauma, and loss — and support them as they begin to rebuild a life that feels meaningful again.
Not by fixing them. Not by rushing them. But by meeting them exactly where they are.
At Hope & Healing Co, I believe:
Every grief belongs here
No matter how big, small, or misunderstood
Honesty matters more than performance
You don’t have to pretend to be okay here.
Lived experience is one of the greatest teachers
This work is not built from theory alone, but from real loss and real survival.
Healing is a right — not a privilege
Everyone deserves access to compassionate, grounded support.
Purpose can exist on the other side of pain
Not because suffering is a gift — but because survival changes you.
My mission is to walk alongside people navigating grief, trauma, and loss — and help them rebuild a life that feels meaningful again.
A Quiet Commitment: The Million Lives Pledge
There are far more than a million people carrying the kind of grief the world doesn’t have a name for.
People who are navigating loss, trauma, and life changes that don’t fit into a simple box. People who feel too complicated. Too broken. Too far gone to be understood. People whose lives didn’t just change… they stopped. Frozen in a moment. In a loss. In a reality they never saw coming. And now they’re left trying to figure out how to move forward when everything inside them feels like it’s still standing still.
Hope & Healing Co exists for them.
For the ones who feel unseen in traditional support. For the ones carrying grief that doesn’t have closure. For the ones navigating trauma that changed who they are. For the ones who don’t feel like themselves anymore — and don’t know how to get back… or even if they’re supposed to.
My mission is to help people navigate what feels unsurvivable.
To sit with them in the moments where everything feels heavy, uncertain, and hard to explain. To help them make sense of what they’re carrying — and gently begin to move forward, even when it feels impossible.
Not by rushing them. Not by fixing them.
But by walking alongside them as they rebuild their lives with intention, meaning, and purpose.
Because even when life feels paused… even when everything feels broken…
There is still a way forward.
And sometimes…
All it takes is one conversation. One moment of feeling seen. One small step.
My commitment is to reach as many of those lives as possible — through real, grounded, deeply human support that meets people exactly where they are.
One conversation at a time. One life at a time.
