Why I Created The Quiet Cry Project

I created The Quiet Cry Project because I needed it. The photo shared here captures several moments of this journey; not everyone who has been part of my story, but a piece of it held with love and intention.

This is for the person who feels like grief changed them in ways they can’t explain.

After losing 17 loved ones in just five years; and now 28 people over the course of my adult life; I realized something important: grief isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s silent, private, and deeply misunderstood. Sometimes it looks like functioning on the outside while quietly breaking on the inside.

I remember the moment I understood that no one could really see this kind of pain unless they had lived it.

What I didn’t know then was that grief doesn’t just wound; it reveals what’s missing: language, space, permission, and care.

I didn’t find many spaces that honored this kind of grief, so I turned to writing with new intention. I had always written; songs since childhood and journals since 1993, encouraged by my Aunt Lois High, but grief therapy after my Uncle David’s passing shifted everything. Writing became less about expression and more about giving my story a voice. When my business coach heard that voice, she urged me to write the book.

That’s why The Quiet Cry Project was born.

It exists to give language to pain people don’t know how to explain. To sit with the weary. To offer faith without pressure. And to remind hurting hearts that God is still near.

This project isn’t about rushing healing.

It’s about walking through it; honestly, gently, and with God.

If you’ve ever felt unseen in your grief, this space is for you.