Linita Eapen Mathew, Ed.D., is an English Language Arts and Mental Health Support teacher from Calgary, Alberta. She obtained her Doctor of Education from the University of Calgary, writing an autoethnographic dissertation that explored the effect of storytelling on bereavement for which she received the Canadian Association of Teacher Education (2021) thesis and dissertation award. Linita created and has led numerous Writing Through Grief workshops for educators and bereavement support centers across North America. Apart from being an educator, she is a writer at heart and the symposium co-editor for the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.  Her books, Life: To Be Given Back Again to Whence It Came(2021) and The Revelations of Eapen (2022), reveal her intimate journey through prolonged grief and how she used storytelling to reconcile her father’s death. After completing her Reiki Master training in 2016, she opened PRANA, a thriving Reiki energy healing center based in Calgary where she uses her understanding of spirituality to support others in finding spiritual solutions to physical, emotional, and psychological problems.