Grief education · Speaking · Community
Trevilia Hodge creates honest, compassionate spaces for people and organizations to understand grief, carry love and make room for joy.
Grief belongs in the room
Education grounded in lived experience, professional training and language that makes difficult conversations possible.
Students may be grieving a death, home and belonging, or the end of a relationship. This work helps them name what changed, understand its impact and reconnect with themselves.
Grief does not disappear when an employee signs back on. Trevilia helps leaders build cultures where loss is acknowledged with dignity—without asking managers to become therapists.
Speaking
Story-led talks for conferences, universities, churches and organizations.
Interactive education designed around the needs of your people.
Clear, compassionate insight on grief, emotional wellness and rebuilding.
Facilitated spaces that help people feel seen, heard and understood.
Trevilia is currently welcoming conversations for 2026–2027 conferences, campuses, corporate programs, faith communities and media.
Meet Trevilia
Trevilia Hodge is a Certified Grief Educator, author, speaker, and the current Miss Plus America Elite 2025–2026. After losing her youngest brother suddenly, she turned her grief into a mission: challenging the familiar instruction to "move on" and offering a more human possibility — moving forward while carrying the love that remains. A former corporate HR and payroll professional, she brings unusual range to the stage — from the realities of bereavement at work to the emotional transitions students face on campus. Her approach is honest, warm, and non-clinical.
Books & story worlds
A Griever’s Confession makes room for anger, faith, guilt, loneliness, love and joy to exist beside one another.
Buy on Amazon →A family story created to open gentle conversations around pregnancy and infant loss.
Buy on Amazon →Stories that help children and grown-ups find language for grief, worry, anger and big feelings.
Meet Kayla and friends →From podcasting back to poetry
After the loss of her youngest brother, Trevilia chose not to restart the podcast. Poetry became the quieter, truer place to keep speaking—through reflection, faith, questions and the language grief leaves behind.
Some seasons do not ask for a microphone. They ask for a page.
New poetry and personal reflections from Trevilia Hodge.
Read a recent piece →The wider work
Bring this conversation to your room
For speaking, workshops, panels, university programs, corporate wellness and community partnerships.