Jenny Leavitt

Author | Speaker | Trauma-Informed Grief Recovery Coach

HELPING GRIEVING HEARTS FIND HOPE IN CHRIST

Jenny Leavitt is an author, speaker, and Board-Certified Master Mental Health Coach (BCMMHC) who helps grieving hearts find hope in Christ. She doesn’t speak about grief from a distance. She’s walked it, and she’s still walking it. Through her Resilient Hope message, she gives individuals, families, and professionals biblical truth, trauma-informed tools, and real-life encouragement.

Her memoir, GodPrints, reached #1 on Amazon in Christian Inspiration and Spiritual Biography (May 2023) and was a 2023 Ames Awards nonfiction finalist.

Jenny’s story has reached listeners and readers through her books, her courses, and 25+ podcast, radio, and TV interviews. Her writing has appeared in Guideposts, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Focus on the Family, and Grief Digest.

• Board-Certified Master Mental Health Coach (BCMMHC), focused on trauma-informed Christian care
• Author of GodPrints: Finding Evidence of God in the Shattered Pieces of Life: #1 on Amazon in Christian Inspiration and Spiritual Biography (May 2023), 2023 Ames Awards nonfiction finalist
• Speaker and guest on TV, syndicated radio, and Christian podcasts, with 25+ interviews
• She’s lived it: she lost her son Jacob, and her whole family went through trauma recovery, and that experience sits alongside her professional training
• Serves churches, grief ministries, and pastors
• Published in Guideposts, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Focus on the Family, and Grief Digest
• Creator of the Resilient Hope Grief Recovery framework
• Known for her warmth, biblical grounding, and practical approach to grief recovery

Jenny Leavitt is an author, YouTube host, and Board-Certified Master Mental Health Coach (BCMMHC) who specializes in grief, loss, and trauma-informed care. Her book GodPrints reached #1 on Amazon in Christian Inspiration and Spiritual Biography (May 2023) and was a 2023 Ames Awards nonfiction finalist. She writes and speaks to bring hope, healing, and even a little happiness to people walking through grief.

Jenny Leavitt knows the valley of grief from the inside. After surviving stage 4 cancer, she lost her seventeen-year-old son, Jacob, when a drunk driver hit the car her boys were in. Her older son, Caleb, survived with catastrophic injuries. In GodPrints: Finding Evidence of God in the Shattered Pieces of Life, she shares her family’s honest story of survival and growth. The book reached #1 on Amazon in Christian Inspiration and Spiritual Biography (May 2023) and was a 2023 Ames Awards nonfiction finalist.

As a pastor’s wife, Jenny has seen faith and resilience hold up under overwhelming loss, both in her own family and in the people she serves. She’s a Board-Certified Master Mental Health Coach (BCMMHC) specializing in grief, loss, and trauma-informed care. Her writing has appeared in Guideposts, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Focus on the Family, and Grief Digest. On her YouTube channel she offers gentle guidance to people sorting through the complicated emotions of grief and looking for a way forward.

Jacob is home in heaven. Caleb and his wife, Crystal, keep making her proud as they live wholeheartedly for Jesus. Jenny and Myron, her husband and best friend of more than thirty years, live in central Florida with a dog who thinks she’s a cat.

1. What made you decide to open up about your life in such a personal way?
2. How does your own grief help you minister to others?
3. You know your son was saved. How do you comfort a parent who doesn’t have that assurance?
4. Why do some people seem to face more than their share of trials while others seem to skate through life?
5. What challenges do you see most often in people dealing with grief, loss, or trauma, and how do you help?
6. Grief comes in stages. How do you help someone through those stages while looking for GodPrints in their life?
7. How can friends support someone who’s grieving without sounding trite?
8. Grief can feel so lonely. What would you tell someone who feels alone in it?
9. What resources do you recommend for people in the middle of loss, grief, or trauma, and what do you offer?
10. Family members grieve differently. How can they each grieve and still support one another?
11. How do you help people find a path toward healing in the middle of such complicated emotions?

Audio

• The HopeCast with Rachael Flick, Ep. 123
• Andy’s Mom, Ep. 182: Jacob’s Mom & Dad
• Hope Is Here with Greg Horn: God Prints; Finding Evidence of God
• The Black and White Network with Kathryn Raaker (Apr 5, 2023)
• The Bottom Line (Aug 18, 2023)

Video

• The Meeting House on Faith Radio (Summer 2023)
• The CURE with Aimee Cabo: Tragic Loss and Trials
• Why Me? Project: How Jenny kept standing when the trials felt too heavy
• Dr. Marina McLean Show (live interview)

Written features

• iWitness with KellyJo Wilson: What happens to a mother’s faith when tragedy strikes?
• Just Between Us: How to Survive Tragedy with Hope

Email: jenny@jennyleavitt.com

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