“Through every change, grief can become growth, loss can lead to purpose, and peace can be restored.”

Dr. Katie Eastman, Master Grief & Transition Coach — guiding individuals, leaders, and organizations through life’s hardest changes with compassion, clarity, and peace.

Dr. Katie Eastman has 35 years of experience in holistic health and life transitions. Turn challenges into chances for growth and healthy change in your life. Dr. Katie combines her clinical skills with empathy to promote resilience and peace.

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Feel Good, Find Purpose, Embrace Growth

Envision starting each day by living in peace - joyfully, eager to lead a meaningful and fulfilling life. Embrace growth in every part of your personal and professional life. Doing your best work and living the vest moments with family. Dr. Katie provides workshops and coaching to inspire healing, growth, and clarity during life transitions.

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Dr. Katie Eastman

“A Master Grief Coach walking beside individuals, leaders, and organizations through change, loss, and growth—guiding with compassion to transform struggle into opportunity to rediscover purpose, and restore peace.”

For more than 40 years, I have walked beside people in their hardest moments—supporting individuals, leaders, and organizations as they face change and loss. I have learned that recognizing grief is what empowers the process of navigating change to optimize personal and or professional growth. Mentored by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, I bring both clinical expertise and compassionate presence to help you find renewed purpose and restore peace during life’s transitions. 

I believe that with the right guidance, grief can become growth, and change can open pathways to deeper clarity, resilience, and meaning. My mission is simple: to uplift, and help you live and work guided by compassion to restore individual and collective peace in your personal and professional worlds. 

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A Transforming Change With Compassion, Purpose, and Peace

Change is inevitable. With it comes loss—but also opportunity: the chance to learn, grow, and create something new. My work bridges compassion and strategy, offering both emotional support and practical tools to help you move forward with peace.

I draw upon two proven frameworks:

  • The Re-Create Model — Retreat, Evaluate, Clarify, Respond, Explore, Accept, Turn, Evolve — a step-by-step process that helps people and organizations process grief and rebuild with strength and clarity.

  • The Kübler-Ross Change Curve — a trusted guide to understanding how people emotionally adapt to loss and transition.

Together, these models help individuals and organizations transform grief, loss, related to change  into resilience, purpose, and peace.

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Uplifting: Inspiring stories of loss, change and growth

Dr. Katie’s new book UPLIFTING: Inspiring stories of loss, change and growth is published and available now. It’s part of a growing body of powerful holistic health books that offer real stories and actionable insights to support mind, body, and soul during difficult transitions.

  • What makes us get up when we are literally or figuratively at our lowest point?

  • Where does the voice that speaks to us reminding us we are worthy of rising up come from?

  • Can we harness our own resilience to speed up the process?

  • Do we have to wait to hit rock bottom or experience utter despair to harness our power to make positive change? 

UPLIFTING is different than many personal growth books in that it gives us the tools and offers examples of how to lift ourselves up—from everyday losses to the most challenging changes that bring us to our knees. It’s a compassionate, empowering guide for anyone committed to healing, growing, and ultimately living in peace.

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THE PEACE GUIDEBOOK
How to Cultivate Hope, Healing, and Harmony for the Good of Humankind

Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Katie Eastman

As an extension of the global movement The Percolate Peace Project, The Peace Guidebook offers a practical, transformative roadmap for individuals, leaders, and organizations seeking to cultivate personal and collective peace, while also creating positive change in the world.

In a world that often feels divided, noisy, and uncertain, The Peace Guidebook is a soul-stirring invitation to return to what truly matters: a quieted soul, a love that reaches outward, and a life guided by collective compassion. This is more than a book—it’s a call to action. A blueprint for change. A spark for a global peace movement.

Rooted in authors Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino’s and Dr. Katie Eastman’s decades of work helping people through grief, change, and transition, and inspired by the Percolate Peace Project, the book delivers Ten Principles of Peace that will help you:

  • Heal what’s unresolved within you

  • Navigate conflict with courage and grace

  • Create partnerships rooted in values and vision

  • Lead from love, even when the world forgets how

  • Build real, resilient, peace-filled communities

With practical tools for real transformation—including reflective prompts, authentic stories, and accessible daily practices—The Peace Guidebook becomes more than just a read. It’s your steady companion, a well of wisdom you’ll return to again and again as you uncover your most peaceful, purpose-driven self.

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Finding Peace and Growth Through Change

Individuals

Navigate life’s transitions, process grief, and rediscover peace through personal coaching.

Leadership

Utilizing my unique leadership intelligence approach, I will strengthen your leadership, restore peace within your team, and make values-based decisions that inspire trust through executive coaching.

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Organizations

Develop cultures of resilience, growth and peace that thrive through transition with consulting.

How to Get Balanced and Live a Peaceful Life

Get a balanced, peaceful life through Personal and Professional Mentoring, Organizational Consultation, Web-based Learning Modules, and Seminars. Equip yourself to manage transitions with resilience, intention, and tranquility. Foster nurturing professional settings that encourage genuine progress. Participate in educational activities centered on wellness and individual growth. Learn from stories of resilience from others who have faced similar situations.

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Life Coaching + Counseling
for individuals

  • How can I handle all these changes?

    What do I need?

    Where do I start?

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Executive Coach and Business Consultant: Workplace Change and Loss

  • Are you a leader who wants to create a sustainable compassionate workplace?

    Are you looking for support for you and your organization in navigating through change?

    Are you looking for tools to maintain compassionate communication?

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“Rising to the challenge of change” Workshops

  • Are you a leader who is not afraid of change and wants your company to grow?

    Do you value your employees?

    Do you want to see your group, team, or organization’s members/ staff thrive both personally and professionally?

As a speaker, author, licensed psychotherapist, coach and consultant, I bring the message of, resilience, growth and peace to audiences worldwide. From keynote presentations to workshops, from books, blogs, to podcasts, I help people see change not as an ending, but as an opportunity to uplift themselves and others and promote global peace. 

Explore my resources:

  • Books: Uplifting, Percolate, and The Peace Guidebook

  • Courses: Coaching programs and leadership trainings

  • Speaking: Keynotes, workshops, and organizational consulting

  • Podcast: Real Life, co-hosted with Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino

  • Blog and newsletter 

  • Websites: Dr Katie Eastman, Best Ever You, Percolate Peace 

Sharing Hope, Peace, and
Purpose With the World

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When Peace Is Restored,
Communities Grow Stronger

The impact of grief coaching and compassionate leadership extends far beyond the individual. When providers, leaders, and organizations reclaim peace and resilience, the ripple effect strengthens families, teams, entire communities and ultimately, the world. 

Katie helped me envision, clarify, and have confidence in a new direction I set for my life after losing my husband. She pushed me to challenge myself while helping me with new ideas. Her empathetic and warm coaching style plus years of experience was just what I needed to make hard decisions about a fresh start after loss. I couldn’t have done it on my own.

– Lisbeth Court, Santa Fe

Dr. Katie’s coaching helps a person develop solutions to real world, real life challenging situations. Her coaching can help people develop plan A, B and C to take your career to the next level, and you realize you really do deserve the best life has to offer and not settle for less!

– Dr. Angela Lewis