Sarah Hines

Speaker  |  Coach  |  Trainer

For integrating who we are into what comes next. Conversations, explorations, and experiences for navigating life's transitions.

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The Work

The in between deserves more than advice.

Some transitions are chosen. Some arrive without permission. A relationship ends. A role changes. A career closes. A body shifts. A loss redraws the room. What once held shape no longer does.

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Coaching

One-on-one coaching for people navigating the hard stuff. Identity shifts. Role changes. Loss. Divorce. The slow erosion of something that used to make sense. The moment you realize the map you have been using no longer fits the terrain.

This is not advice-giving. It is not a program with a tidy arc. It is honest, grounded, action oriented work built around where you actually are, not where you think you should be.

Identity after a defining role
Loss and the terrain of grief
Leadership in transition
Divorce and relationship changes
Moral injury and traumatic activations
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Speaking

Speaking engagements for organizations, conferences, and communities navigating grief, transition, identity, leadership, and change. What is offered is not a motivational arc with a tidy landing. It is an honest accounting of what happens at the threshold, and what becomes possible when we stop pretending we know what comes next.

All topics customized to your audience.

Speaking Topics

Holding Shape in a Shifting World
Compassionate Leadership with Healthy Boundaries
Beyond the Summit
Transitions and Legacy
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Workshops

Workshops for teams, leaders, and practitioners who support people through transition. Whether you are building organizational capacity around grief, loss, and identity, or developing your own practice as someone who holds space for others, this work gives you the tools, the language, and the grounded confidence to do it well.

Not a certification. Not a checklist. A real shift in how you show up for the people in your care.

Grief-informed leadership
Supporting identity transition in teams
Language and communication in loss
Practitioner development
A guiding belief
Change is not about forgetting who we have been.
It is about discovering how we belong
in what comes next.
About

Sarah Hines

Sarah Hines

Sarah Hines works at the intersection of identity, loss, and transition. She is a coach, speaker, and trainer who has spent years sitting with people in the hard middle of change, the space between who they were and who they are becoming.

Her work moves through three territories: Loss, the terrain most of us were never taught to navigate. Connection, finding our way back to ourselves when the roles that defined us fall away. And Legacy, understanding what we want to carry forward and what we are ready to set down.

She brings both the personal and the professional to everything she does, because she believes the two were never meant to be separate.

Certifications & Training

IFS Practitioner
Mental Health First Aid
Trauma Informed Practice
Death Doula Accreditation
Clinical Trauma Professional Level 1
Certified Funeral Celebrant
Integrative Somatic Parts
Home Hospice Training
Movement for Trauma Therapy Training
Rites & Rituals Practitioner
Edu-Therapy CBT for Grievers Trainer
Field Notes

Field Notes.

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May 2026

Leading While Grieving

McKinsey found that unresolved grief affects fully one-third of executives, and organizations are consistently ill-equipped to handle it — at a cost of roughly $75 billion a year.

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December 2025

When the Title Was the Whole Story

For decades, the role provided daily confirmation that you were someone it was worth being. When it ends, what remains? On executive identity, transition, and what comes after special.

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January 2026

When the Mission Ends

Military-to-civilian transition is one of the most significant identity shifts a person can move through — not because the skills disappear, but because the framework that gave them meaning does.

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For conversations that shape what comes next.

Begin with a private conversation. No performance. No tidy script. Just the first honest threshold.