Diana, Grief Recovery Coach

United States

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About Me:
I am a Grief Counselor and Registered and Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist who has worked with Hospice and the bereaved since 2001. I am also an Addiction Recovery Coach.
About my Loss:
I've lost a brother and sister, father and mother, grandparents, friend, fiance, step-son, cousin, pet and ex-husband. Overwhelmed by grief, I created Online Grief Support. It's a community of people helping people. Thank YOU for making this community what it is today.
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Diana Young, LD/N, GC-C, ORDM
Diana is a Certified Grief Counselor with The American Institute of Health Care Professionals, Inc since 2015. Diana is also a licensed and Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist for 30 years specializing in weight management, diabetes care, the mind diet and healthy eating. She created the popular website OnlineGriefSupport.com in 2008 which now has over 15,000 members. Currently Diana facilitates a virtual grief support group weekly. Previously Diana worked for Cornerstone Hospice, providing nutrition care and grief support to patients and their families for over 15 years. She has also worked in hospital and clinical settings.
Along with assisting clients through the grief journey, Diana provides important information on self-care focusing on proper nutrition during the grieving process.
Diana is a recovery support specialist assisting clients with substance use issues.

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  • Shady Wilbury

    Thanks for the comment a while ago. I must admit that I'm struggling somewhat at the moment. Some information that I'd previously been led to believe now may not be true. The addition of five years to what I'd believed to be a three year battle with cancer jars me like nothing else.
  • steacy del valle

    i lost my mom on may 14, 2010. it was a murder suicide. the guy that killed her was her ex that was with her for about 9 years. he cheated on her and so she decided to leave him and move on with her life about a couple of months later she found a guy and she was really happy the guy treated her the way she deserved to be treated he brought her flowers he even brought me flowers too lol. he pampered her she was finally happy and the guy got so jealous because he saw she was moving on with her life and started stalking her and one day he went to her appartment and asked her to marry him and when she said no he shot her 4 times and shot himself in the head.
    she died 11 days before my 21st birthday and cremated on my birthday. i went to puerto rico where she was buried but no body wanted to take me to the cementary to visit her and it hurt so bad be cause what if no one goes to visit her toeven bother putting flowers on her grave im scared everyone is going to forget her and forget how special she was and still is for me
  • Toyanne

    Red Ribbon
  • John B

    Thankyou Diana..

     

    I tried deleting the second comment (posted first) below the other but it wouldn't work.

     

    At 3:54pm on March 24, 2011, Coach Diana Young said…
     
    John, I think I was able to delete the content for you by clicking on the x in the upper right hand corner.  Maybe it just deletes it in my feed.  Check to see if it has been deleted and if not I think you can delete it y/s by clicking on the x.
  • Patricia Gooderham

    Thank you for your reply as I am struggling with weight loss and only have the basics of food as i am on a fixed income so it's hard to get the amount of healthy foods that I need.

     

    I did walk 4 days last week but by the time the end of that week came around I was in physical pain so rested for the next 3 days bc of the fibro....I can only do so much and feeling the demands to push myself even more on what society says I should do.

    I am the only one who knows how far I can push my body before I am bed bound with pain.

    I wish that i could have a personal coach to assist me to really see my problems first hand instead of others just saying , oh get on with life and quit whinning..!

     

  • LISA DURVIN

    Good Afternoon Diana,

    Your message to my bio made me breathe in a sigh of relief. Its unfortunate the way we are meeting and why... but through our situations... and the uniqueness of them... I believe we can help one another. Not many people understand the painful feeling of abandonment not only from not having a parent or sibling around your whole life... but for having them leave this Earth before you got the chance to meet them and get to know them. I would definently love to chat with you more regarding feelings, healing, clarity and any and everything because I feel that there is a understanding that we can have with one another.  Hope your day is going well... and I look forward to talking to you soon.


    LIsa*

  • jim siburt

    Thank you!
  • Loon

    Hello Diana. I wanted to say thank you so much for your After Death Communication posts. I find a lot of comfort in reading them and I may even share some experiences with the others. Very sorry for your losses.
  • MIchael A Ballard

    Hello Diana! Just wanted to complement the OLGS Site and it's members and the helpful information it provides. Great job! Michael
  • Nancy Gershman

    Diana, don't forget to leave an invite to join Online Grief Support on the "Bereavement Artists" page on Facebook. I think it's much better if it comes from you. I will comment on your post, however, ok? Also, can you email me at nancy@artforyoursake.com?

  • Lori

    Thank you for starting this site ! I have a son in the Navy and had joined Navy 4 Moms years ago which is set up very similar, albeit for different type of support. The friends I found there are incredible, and I was amazed that you could really meet people online that are caring and in a similar situation.

    This grief train is lonely, and I really thank you for this site.

  • dream moon JO B

    this is 1 of the 1st fotos

  • dream moon JO B

    it woz took in 1985 i woz abot 10 yrs old 

  • dream moon JO B

    i fogot to thank u for this web site that is big help i dont no wear a lot of us all over the world wud be withh out it 

  • Esther Ferrari

    Dear Diana, thank you so very much for the opportunity to post here. So many losses you deal with... :flowers: {{{[[[(((hugs)))]]]}}} This site is very user friendly too. Ten out of ten to you!~

  • dream moon JO B

    1 of yore blogs giv me the push i needed to get back in to my art it wiz the push i needd it thank u lets hope yore blogs help more people all over the world so thank u

  • dream moon JO B

    i dont no how u stay strong with all thm people u have lost i lost 1 of my surgate uncles 2 weeks ago woz at his funrell last thuday he woz 95 i allways called him uncle bill he woz not my real uncle just called him uncle i no evry 1 has surgate antis and uncles and surgate grandparents evry 1 used to say uncle bill will live till 100 but he didnt

  • dream moon JO B

    happy new yr thnank u for this web site im practicing vidio makeing finaly figerd out how to put the right codes in 

  • dream moon JO B

    i wud like t say it again ty for ths web site wish is biog help to all of us i no i had pass losses before my dad thn wen my dad died ths has bean a big help to evry 1 on hear after my dad died i had a few more losses i woz hoping 2013 wud be a grt strat  but i woz wong i did  not thnk 6 popele who i new cud die i 1 month thn anothr 1 of my dads frind died i feb it just helps coming on hear leting off stress and to scream and shout and nobody tell us to get over it on hear coz we all help eash other

  • Emily

    Hi! I'm sorry for all the dear people you have lost, thanks for creating this website. I think Naomi Eden may be a spammer, I looked at her profile.

  • dream moon JO B

    sory to be a a pain but evry thng is going slow on hear sory dnt mean to bother u abot ti

  • dream moon JO B

    godisgood is sendin spam mail to peple on hear 

  • Sandra Champlain

    Hi Diana, somehow I missed your message. I am SO SORRY! You can read more about the book here: www.wedontdiebook.com

    If you want to read it, you can download the pdf here instead of buying it: http://www.wedontdie.com/newtown.html

  • dream moon JO B

    so sory for yore loss dianna we will all pray for u

  • Jo Clarke

    Thank you very much for adding me to the site, Please could you contact me as I am very very upset, I lost my only child my son in 2010, as I am a graphic designer/digital artist I decided I would honour and keep my beautiful brave boys memory alive by creating custom memorial graphics, I make no charge for my work I merely ask that my terms of use are respected as they are all copyrighted (all rights reserved) Sadly there is a member on here who is removing my copyright from my graphics whenever possible and completely covering over it on graphics that she is unable to remove it from, that in itself is both hurtful and very disrespectful to my son's memory but to then actually add her own name to them and post them as her own on this and various other sites, Well, I'm sure you can understand why I am so hurt and angry, I have tried to contact this member via two other sites and as I am obliged by law to do so a DMCA take-down request has been sent to both which will hopefully be responded to without it having to be enforced, I am just devastated, how can anyone be so cruel to steal my child's memory, I would very much appreciate your help with removing all of my infringed work, all of the originals can been seen and links to them provided upon request, Again thank you for adding me and I look forward to hearing from you.  

  • Jo Clarke

    Hi Diana, Thank you ever so much for getting back to me, I did see your private message but I couldn't figure out how to send a reply sorry! I'm actually in the UK and unfortunately it costs an absolute fortune for me to call overseas through my telephone service provider also I'm not at all sure what the time zone difference between us is, Do you have an e mail address or an inbox that I can use to contact you? I'm actually just off to bed now as it's past 1am here and I have to be up early but if it's ok with you I will check back with you later on today, Again thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly I really am most grateful, Jo.

  • Survivor17

    Hi Diana , First off let me just say that I am very sorry for your multiple losses leading for the reasons start this site... Now let me say that I am grateful you were able to draw strength to do so . I have read so many stories in here and I know this site has helped so many people including myself .  I have also had several losses and not much in way of support , I was ready to crawl into a hole when I found this site . Thank you for pushing through your pain to start something that would help others , xoxo Niecy 

  • Madeleine

    Hi Diana. I am new to this site and I want to thank you for creating it. There are so many people here who are struggling and feeling the same things I am, which makes me realize that I am normal.

  • Karen Pielke

    Hi, all...just figuring my way out around here....Thanks for the welcomes!!

  • anna l.

    Diana, are you the admin of this group?  I have looked and looked and this is as close as I can get.  If you are, can you please tell me why we need someone like Jeniffer Page advertising funeral services on here? 

  • Elizabeth Bennett

    Dear Diana,  I think this site is going to be a great comfort to me in the endless days and months stretching out before me without my husband.  When I first signed on here, there was a blog by Jan Warner that I would so love to be able to read again, but I cannot find it anywhere.  And I have searched every place I can think of to find it, to no avail.  Do you have any idea how I could access her blog again?  Thank you so much.  Elizabeth  (SUAlumna@nycap.rr.com) 

  • L. J. Capobianco

     

    Diana, 

    Thank you for providing a place where people can go for comfort and support. I'm a new member of your community and I would like to offer some help.   As a retired pastor I've felt a special calling to help those who've suffered personal loss.  I've ministered to people for over 30 years and since retiring  felt I needed to do more.

    The result is I've written a book with the specific purpose of offering a completely different perspective for those who are grieving.  It's titled:

    Email From Heaven and has recently been published.  I did not write it for fame or profit.  It's available on Amazon for the cost of printing - and also in EBook form (Link Below).  I hope members of this social community would please take just a few minutes to look at the site - especially the Comments by readers to see how it is being received.

    It is my sincere wish that my small book will bring new meaning, new comfort, and renewed hope.

    http://www.amazon.com/eMail-Heaven-L-J-Capobianco-ebook/dp/B00LXJVS...

  • Elizabeth Bennett

    Hi Diana, thanks so much for getting back to me.  Somehow I had managed to find the email address for Jan Warner and she gave me the place to find her blog again.  Hopefully I wrote down that address too!   

  • dream moon JO B

    Red Ribbon
  • Michael Thompson

    Hi Diana Y.  I lost my wife to cancer last September 2014, we were married 22 years, how would you feel about Skyping with me ?

    Michael UK

  • Mark

    Hi Diana,

     I have an acquaintance that anxious to join.  Could you please review your requests to join at your earliest convenience.

    Thanks in advance

    Mark

  • Michael Thompson

    Hi Diana Y, Im doing badly.  Its been around 15 months for me now since my wife passed, and I still cant believe she has gone.  There's a hole in my life now, and it will never be filled.  I watched some online video's recently just to have her near to me, I cried my heart out.  I also feel very sorry for our Yorkie pup, because my wife had Yorkies all her life, they were like little people to her, she was devoted to Yorkie's.  Thanks for enquiring about me.

    Michael UK

  • Diana, Grief Recovery Coach

    All people are different in their journey of healing. Give others grace, acceptance, compassion and kindness on their journey.
  • mhi gp

    hi. i can't remember what i said as i've been ill in bed for weeks.

    i guess am wondering what happens in this particular group, please

  • Pamela philipp

    Hi Diana had a question I was wondering if you know a good but natural remedy for anxiety I don't Believe in antidepressants of any kind my problem is every time I go in public I get very anxious and have to leave and get right back home I don't like being out in public don't like being in grocery stores really don't like being around people but I won't take any pills don't like them I have my reasons my sister committed suicide years ago enough said if you have any suggestions let me know thanks
  • Pamela philipp

    I was wondering if you received my message I sent you
  • Pamela philipp

    Thankyou for the article I will look into those suggestions I will let you know how or if they work
  • Chris

    i'm sorry about the loved ones you've lost.  it all seems like an awful lot for 1 person to go through.  i'm trying to get through the grief of losing my dad right now and it sure is hard.  i'm so glad I found this forum.

  • Jacki Fredericks

    Hi Diana,

    I'm so sorry for all the losses you have gone through. You are a very kind, and caring person to have created this site, and I greatly appreciate it. I pray love finds you, and you love yourself. I think you're 1 awesome lady! Take good care. Many Blessings, good health, and much love are sent to you from  many. 

  • Sofia A. Wellman

    Jarvis,

    I am interested in taking over site. Please contact me by phone.

    I do a lot of grief work and would do it justice.

    Sofia Wellman

    404-644-4040

  • M Adams

    Thank you for creating this site, it is a lifeline for many people.  Hope your health is improving every day.

  • Jeneley

    Hi Diana. Thanks for reaching out. How long have you been on this website? I am trying anything and everything to work through some of this pain. 

  • Pennywyze

    How do I make a connection here?

  • Pennywyze

    Who all can see my blog journal posts?

  • Pennywyze

     I have another question. Does the site have an app?