Story Safe Grief Coaching
A trauma-informed, creative space to share and honor your losses through storytelling
HOW GRIEF COACHING CAN SUPPORT YOU
Story Safe welcomes your grief and holds it as part of the living archive you are
You can say the heavy, complicated, or painful truths about your grieving relationships, and your experiences will be held with reverence and non-judgment.
You and your loved one's shared histories, no matter how complicated, deserve space to be tended to, on your terms.
Your love, longing, and loss are sacred; we’ll hold them as such, together.
about krystle may
I’m Krystle May Statler, a certified grief coach and trauma-informed storyteller living in Portland, OR, specializing in sibling loss — whether through estrangement, disconnection, distance, or death. While my specialty is sibling loss, Story Safe Grief Coaching is for anyone living through ambiguous, complex, or disenfranchised loss.
In 2019, my older biological brother, Brian Leslie Statler Jr. (BJ), was taken by police violence. Through this nonsensical and unimaginable loss, I’ve sought ways to honor his life and my love for our past and the stolen future we could’ve had. Living in a dominant culture that often overlooks the emotional landscape of siblings, I believe we deserve more than the label of forgotten mourners. We are still here, carrying the stories, memories, hopes, and dreams of siblingship, no matter how far away our siblings are.
Through storytelling tools and the B.R.E.A.T.H.E. framework, I offer a compassionate, safe, trauma-informed space where your stories, memories, and truths are honored on your terms. Your lived experience, memory, and imagination are a sacred triad for healing as you move alongside your loss in this life-after.