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BECAUSE EVERY LOSS DESERVES TO BE SEEN. You're not broken; you're becoming
About Diana Camba
Diana, age 5, John Meis & Her Dad, and Diana, age 66
"My grief journey began at age five, with the death of my 25-year-old Uncle Paul.
John Meis at Paramount Mortuary became my mentor, as I learned more about the funeral business."
My Origin Story
What Invisible Grief Includes
After the death of my Uncle Paul at age five, I became curious and intrigued with grief and healing. My dad and I would go to the mortuary on Saturdays to learn more from John Meis, owner and funeral director at Paramount Mortuary. Mr. Meis taught me that grief work requires heart, not just logistics.
Ten years later, my dad took a leave of absence from the ministry and managed a mortuary. Living above the mortuary with my parents, death wasn't abstract to me. It was the business downstairs. It was the families who came through our doors. It was my education in what society validates as "real" grief.
I spent over 30 years working in the funeral industry and became a licensed funeral director. Through the years, I have received loved ones at homes and hospitals, dressing them, caring for them, guiding families from the moment we received their loved one into our care through to final burial or cremation. I held space for over 1,000 families through the grief that gets obituaries, casseroles, condolences, and sympathy cards.
But I also carried my own invisible grief.
MICHELE'S STORY
At age 9, my best friend Michele Parker was murdered, just two weeks before her 9th birthday. For 56 years, I held that loss in silence. Who talks about a childhood friend's death decades later? Who validates that kind of carried grief?
In 2025, at age 66, I finally visited Michele's grave in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was marked: "Our Little Rosebud." That moment changed everything.
I realized: Every loss deserves to be seen. Not just the deaths that get funerals. Not just the losses that society deems "worthy" of grief. Every. Single. Loss.
What Invisible Grief Includes
What Invisible Grief Includes
- The divorce that ended your identity as a spouse.
- The career that defined you for decades, now gone.
- The miscarriage that only you mourned.
- The friendship that dissolved without acknowledgment.
- The version of yourself you can never return to.
These are invisible griefs. And they deserve rituals, validation, and sacred space just as much as any funeral I ever directed.
THE TURNING POINT
So at 66, I did something unusual: I retired from the funeral industry and launched Loss and Grief Transformation. Not to leave grief work—but to expand it to include the losses no one else was naming.
My mission: Establish Loss and Grief Transformation as the leading practice for the losses nobody talks about.
MY FRAMEWORK
I created the Seasons of Healing™ framework, a cyclical approach that honors how grief actually moves (in waves and circles, not linear stages):
- Winter: The Season of Honest Recognition (Name the Unseen)
Give language to what society won't acknowledge.
- Spring: The Season of Sacred Ceremony (Honor with Ritual)
Create a ceremony for losses that don't get casseroles.
- Summer: The Season of Authentic Renewal (Reclaim Yourself)
Rebuild identity after invisible loss.
- Autumn: The Season of Purposeful Integration (Live the Legacy)
Carry your transformation forward.
MY APPROACH
MY APPROACH
I offer one-on-one (1:1) coaching, group coaching, Workshops, and other events.
I combine grief education with therapeutic painting in my BE SEEN Workshop because sometimes you need to paint the wave of grief when words fail. I restore myself through painting seascapes in oil. I teach others to create through their losses.
I don't just teach invisible grief transformation. I've lived it:
- Living above a mortuary, witnessing grief as a way of life.
- Michele Parker's murder at age 9 (56 years of silence).
- A near-miss with PSA Flight 182 that killed 144 people (survivor's guilt).
- 30+ years of secondary grief from serving 1,000+ families.
- Career identity shift at 66 from funeral director to entrepreneur.
MY BOOK
I am writing "Echo of Loss: Seen and Unseen Grief Journey" to document this path for others who've been told their loss "isn't that bad" or to "just move on."
Your Invitation
If you're carrying invisible grief, the kind that doesn't get acknowledged, validated, or ritualized, you're not broken. You're not overreacting. You're grieving.
And your loss? It deserves to be seen.
Let's make it visible together.
About Diana Camba Coaching
I see you. Your grief is real. And I would be honored to walk beside you.
Walking beside you might look like gaining clarity on your invisible grief in just 30 days. It may seem like a journey through all four Seasons of Healing™ over four months. Or it might look like a full year of sacred accountability as you transform grief into awakened, purposeful living.
I have designed three programs because grief is not one-size-fits-all. Your losses are unique; your timeline is your own. And the support you need depends on where you are right now.