Meet Monica
I’m Monica Arora Kumar, an End-of-Life Educator and former nurse. Through both professional experience and personal loss, I’ve seen the difference preparation makes—and the heartbreak when families don’t have it. My work brings together cultural wisdom, clinical training, and lived experience to help families plan ahead with clarity, support, and care.
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Not sure how to start the conversation with your parents? This guide will help.
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Inside, you’ll get 3 simple, non-threatening conversation starters to help open the door—without pressure, guilt, or overwhelm.
Whether you use them at dinner or on a quiet walk, this guide makes it easier to take the first step.
Loss is inevitable. Preparation doesn’t erase the pain, but it changes how we meet it.
This guide offers reflections and questions we often avoid, but deeply need—an invitation to give yourself the gift of greater peace when it matters most.
Beyond Loss:
The Power of Purposeful Grief
Beyond Loss: The Power of Purposeful Grief is a deeply personal reflection on love, loss, and what grief can become when we choose to carry it with intention.
After losing both my mother and brother within nine months, I found myself reshaped by grief in ways I couldn’t have imagined. This book is not about “getting over” anything. It’s about the quiet choices we make to keep going, the cultural and personal grounding that can hold us when nothing else can, and the unexpected ways grief carves meaning into our lives.
Through stories, tools, and lived reflection, this is an offering for anyone who’s grieving—or trying to understand how grief lives on in us. Not as something to fix. But as something we can learn to carry differently.
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Words from Readers
“I know I’ll come back to this book every time I experience loss. It’s something I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life.” - Mina D.
"There were things in this book I have never seen anywhere else. Things that I felt that I thought no one else had. I thought I was alone in my grief, and now i don't feel that way anymore." - Erin D.