Bring Jacqueline to your audience.
Honest, clinically grounded talks on delayed grief, healing, and the loss we carry.
Jacqueline Werket brings something most grief speakers can’t: the clinical insight of a 33-year nurse practitioner alongside the lived experience of a mother who lost her son to leukemia and suppressed her grief for a decade. Her talks are warm, evidence-informed, and deeply personal — and audiences walk away with language, tools, and the permission to face what they’ve been carrying.
Featured
Podcast
Delayed Grief: Unpacking the Emotional Burden
Most-requested talks
When Grief Waits for You: Recognizing and Healing Delayed Grief
For: General audiences, retreats, support groups, faith communities.
Audiences leave with a working definition of delayed grief, the five most common ways it shows up in everyday life, and a framework for facing it safely.
The Hidden Grief in Healthcare: How Caregivers Carry Loss
For: Hospitals, hospice teams, nursing conferences, clinical wellness programs.
Audiences leave with language for naming caregiver grief, three practices for processing loss between patients, and an organizational lens for leadership.
A Mother’s Grief, Postponed: Surviving the Loss of a Child
For: Bereaved-parent groups, faith communities, grief retreats.
Audiences leave with companionship, hope, and the assurance that delayed grief is not failure — it’s what survival looked like.
The Body Keeps the Grief: A Nurse Practitioner’s Perspective on Suppressed Loss
For: Healthcare CEU programs, integrative-medicine and wellness conferences.
Audiences leave with the physiology of suppressed grief, clinical signs to watch for in patients, and a practical framework for screening and referral.
When We Lose Them, Too: Grief After Pet Loss
For: Veterinary teams, pet bereavement groups, animal-services organizations.
Audiences leave with validation, language, and tools for what is often an unwitnessed grief.
Audiences Jacqueline serves
Hospice and palliative-care organizations
Hospital and health-system wellness programs
Nursing conferences and CEU events
Bereavement support groups
Faith communities and ministry retreats
Women’s wellness and personal-growth retreats
Bereaved-parent organizations
Veterinary practices and pet-loss groups
Upcoming Events
Grief Coalition
Jacqueline Werket will lead the educational presentation during the Bloomington Grief Coalition’s July 30 meeting. She will speak between 4:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. and share the story of how she helps people dealing with delayed grief.
- July 30, 2026, 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
- Oak Grove Presbyterian Church 2200 W. Old Shakopee Rd. Bloomington, MN 55431
All Things Grief! Professional Development Conference
Jacqueline Werket will be delivering a workshop on delayed grief in person and virtually during the conference. She will focus on the topic of delayed grief and how media triggers it in individuals.
She will also have a booth at the event where people can purchase copies of her book. A Grief Postponed: A Nurse Practitioner’s Journey through Delayed Grief.
- August 13, 2026, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- St. Paul RiverCentre 175 Kellogg Boulevard St. Paul, MN 55102
The Downtown Grief Coalition
- Saturday, August 22, 2026, 10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
- First Christian Church 610 W. 28th St. Minneapolis, MN 55408
Andover Senior Center
- July 20, 2026, 1 p.m.
- 1685 Crosstown Blvd., NW Andover, MN 55304
Logan Lodge Bloomington
- August 25, 2026, 10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
- 9930 Logan Ave S. Bloomington, MN 55431
Edina Senior Center
- August 27, 2026
- Edina Senior Center 5280 Grandview Square # 101 Edina, MN 55436
Coon Rapids Senior Center
- Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 10:30 a.m.
- 11155 Robinson Drive Coon Rapids, MN 55433
Roseville Senior Center- Anpetu Teca Education Center
- September 21, 2026, 11:30a -12:30 p
- 1910 County Road B West Roseville, MN 55113
“Growing Through Loss” North Suburban Grief Support Coalition
- October 12, 2026
- Church of St. William 6120 5th Street NE Fridley, MN 55432
Hopkins Activity Center
- October 15, 2026, Noon – 1 p.m.
- 33 14th Avenue North Hopkins, MN 55343
Shoreview Senior Center
- December 8, 2026, 1 p.m.
- 4580 Victoria Street North Shoreview, MN 55126