At the tender age of five, Angie found her baby sister Erica dead. From that point forward, Angie watched her mother struggle in a society that was afraid of, and didn't understand, grief. Thus began a lifelong relationship with loss and sorrow that that would also include losing both a grandfather and uncle to suicide, her newlywed husband in a horrific car crash, and the tragic death of her mother who died of an unintended drug overdose in 2010. Fueled by all her losses, Angie set out to change how our culture understands and views grief.
Shortly after her mother's passing in 2010, Angie founded Grief the Unspoken, a conglomerate of open and closed groups on Facebook with over half a million followers. To help educate and raise awareness about the lifelong impact of grief, Angie founded National Grief Awareness Day and is spearheading a petition to have August 30, her mother's birthday, legally declared as National Grief Awareness Day.
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