Helping You Find Your Inner Light and Shine Bright!

Grief coaching, ritual design, and creative practices to help you navigate life changes, tend to your heart, and find healing in the interwoven nature of grief, joy, and love.

Grief is not just about loss—it’s about love. In our fast-moving world, we’re rarely given space to fully feel and honor the emotions that shape us.

Hi, I’m Chirona Rose Silverstein—a grief coach, ritual designer, and hair sparkler based in Portland, Oregon. I’m white, grew up in an upper-class family, and spent over a decade working in tech before turning toward this path of healing and justice. I’ve been deeply committed to unpacking my privilege and transforming my words and actions to honor the dignity of all people. This is lifelong, imperfect, and necessary work.

Have you ever felt waves of grief you didn’t know how to carry?

Are you navigating a life transition and yearning for support and meaning?

Do you want to explore how grief and joy can coexist, making space for deeper love?

I believe grief is not a problem to fix, but a practice to tend. There’s no single “right” way to walk with grief or to show up for the world. I’m here to support you in finding your own way—with compassion, courage, and care.

What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy?

Coaching supports clients to see their present world with a different lens and unblock themselves from the challenges they are facing. A coaching relationship is typically short-term and focused on a specific block. It differs from therapy in that it does not involve looking back into the past to understand your present experience. Many coaching clients simultaneously work with therapists.

“Creating space to honor grief and nurture resilience.”

Offerings

Grief Coaching

Are you navigating a loss, transition, or rupture that feels hard to carry on your own?

Do you long for space to fully feel your grief without judgment, and to discover the healing and meaning it can hold?

I support people through grief in all its forms—death, breakups, life transitions, identity shifts, or the quieter losses that are often overlooked. Using a holistic, head–heart–body approach, I help you meet your grief with compassion and curiosity, so it doesn’t stay stuck inside.

Together, we’ll explore integrated practices that create space for your emotions, uncover the wisdom they carry, and support you in moving forward with greater clarity, resilience, and authenticity.

Ritual Design

We’ll discuss what transition(s) you are hoping to honor and what ritual means to you. Together, we will design a custom ritual that represents your unique self. Support can also be offered to design and integrate daily, weekly, monthly, or annual ritual practices into your life. Schedule a free consult to discuss what you’re looking to ritualize.

  • “After an unexpected layoff and trying to adjust to several major life changes, I felt chaotic, anxious, and confused. Chirona offered compassionate insights, practical strategies, and targeted exercises to help navigate those challenging times with renewed clarity and personal compassion. Their support was invaluable and made a significant difference in my healing. If you value a unique perspective, immeasurable patience, and endless kindness, I highly recommend you reach out!”

    Bear

  • “Chirona is such an attuned listener. I worked with them at a very muddled place in my life. They had an incredible capacity to listen into the mess for the through-lines and things that brought me the most sense of delight and grounding. With this clarity, they supported me in creating practices centered around these things, which I continue to orient to almost a year later. Chirona interweaves poetry, creativity, movement and the body into the coaching they provide, creating a holistic environment for grounding and growth. Thank you Chirona!!!”

    iZ

  • “Chirona wrote and led a closing ceremony at the most important event of our lives, our wedding. Where other weddings may trail off into the evening, ours ended in sweet punctuation. I’m very glad we asked Chirona to craft this ritual and would emphatically work with them again to ritualize another intentional gathering.”

    Rachel & Eli

  • “When I asked Chirona to prepare a Mikvah for my wedding, I knew it would be personal, but I didn’t realize how meaningful it would be. Chirona curated an experience to celebrate my journey while symbolizing this moment. They added layers of depth and love by incorporating close friends, facilitating an intimate space for us to be together on an otherwise busy weekend. I am so grateful for the experience.”

    Lauren

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