Heidi Gessner

About Heidi Gessner

CEO and founder of Indigo Flow: Path to a New Beginning, my signature program for people grieving a loss, based on my 18+ years as an end-of-life professional, personal experience, and my new book, Pockets of Grace: Lessons from Darkness, Lessons from Light. This intentional, internal process can be done alone or within community. I meet people in the external, empty space of grief, and invite them into the sacred, inner, indigo space where they\'ll process their loss, learn new skills, and gain resilient tools, whatever stage of life. Through reading, writing, reflecting, and accessing deep memories, this deeply nourishing and cathartic space will naturally excavate new things about being in the world. The process strengthens the secret and hard-won gifts of grief, which allows a new path to emerge. Experienced end-of-life clinical chaplain with 18 years working in the hospital & health care industry. Created and developed University of North Carolina Hospitals Bereavement Support Services, a program dedicated to promoting healthy grieving through educational resources and follow up to families for a year after the death of a loved one. Co-facilitated Writing for Resilience, a weekly reflective prompt-writing group, for patients, caregivers, and community, as a creative coping tool and to initiate healing shifts in perspective. Skilled in Grief Counseling, Coaching, Compassion, Crisis Intervention, Resilience, Family Therapy, and Case Management. Strong community and social services professional with a Master of Divinity focusing in Pastoral Care & Counseling from Campbell University. Board Certified Life Coach and Relationship Consultant. Seasoned wedding officiant and premarital counseling professional who works with couples regardless of sexual orientation and spiritual beliefs. Create sacred, unique, personal, and light-hearted ceremonies that reflect a couples\' relationship, values, and beliefs. Licensed to officiate wedding services for couples of all denominations, as well as secular ones.

Experience

1. Grief Coach Chief Executive Officer

   Indigo Flow Path To A New Beginning

   Jan 2023 — Present · Winston-Salem, NC, US

   Indigo Flow provides online support for anyone mourning a loss. Indigo Flow invites you to look within, into an internal “indigo” space, versus the empty place in external world. This unique process invites you to awaken your inner-sight, or intuition, which is the bridge to a deeper part of yourself full of creativity, values, and wisdom. Connecting with this intelligence, this intuition, opens a new reality. This is how you become the creator of your own life, your own experience, and you discover that you have a wealth of knowledge inside of you. This deeply nourishing and cathartic space will naturally excavate new or remembered things about being in the world and clear the way for a new path to emerge. Indigo Flow teaches new skills, and you\'ll gain resilient tools through four Flows: Nature, Creative, Sacred, and Soul. Each flow has its own transcendent quality and you\'ll explore their unique offerings to empower and foster curiosity and spiritual awareness. Connecting with the transcendent, sacred flow of life, as well as with resources and support, builds a unique, sustainable, spiritual practice that becomes your tiller in rough waters. Death has much to teach us about living. And you are not left alone in this life, but rather living in a universe that’s trying to speak to you and support you. Once you realize this, you listen to hear what it has to say. Inside Indigo Flow, you learn to tune into this magical way of being in the world.In Indigo Flow, you’ll explore, integrate, and reconnect with your essence. That\'s basically your goal in this life. And it’s your willingness to go beyond society’s opinions that enables you to slowly reconnect with your soul energy. And whenever you do it, you feel joy, you feel relief, and you feel freedom. Indigo Flow teaches you how to turn your sadness into connection, meaning, and gratitude, leading you to a whole new path in your life.

Education

• Campbell University

  Master’s Degree, Master of Divinity-Pastoral Care & Counseling

  2003 — 2007

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Business/Corporate Communications

  1981 — 1983

• University of Richmond

  Bachelor’s Degree, Business/Corporate Communications

  1983 — 1985

• Behavioral Health & Leadership Dynamics, LLC Training Institute

  Board Certified Coach, Life Coach and Relationship Consultant