Jes White Hankins
Hospice Nurse Practitioner | Bereavement Facilitator | Pastor

I'm Jes.

I'm a hospice nurse practitioner, bereavement facilitator, pastor, and fellow traveler who has learned that grief isn’t something to "get over," It's something we learn to carry.

I don't believe grief needs to be fixed.
I believe it deserves to be witnessed.

Over the years, I've walked alongside individuals and families through death, anticipatory grief, complicated relationships, life transitions, & traumatic loss. My work has taught me that grief isn't limited to funerals. We grieve people, dreams, identities, health, relationships, and the lives we thought we would have.

I've learned that some of the deepest grief has no funeral.

Sometimes we grieve the parent we never really had. The marriage that ended. The diagnosis that changed everything. The childhood we deserved. The apology we'll never receive. The version of ourselves we thought we'd become.

My own life has been shaped by profound loss as well. Long before I worked in hospice, I was learning what it meant to navigate death, trauma, and the kind of grief that changes the course of your life. Those experiences don't make me an expert on your grief, but they have taught me how to recognize the loneliness it can bring—and how meaningful it is when someone is willing to stay.

That's why this work exists.

I created this space to offer the support and language I wish I had while I was going through.

Not to fix grief.

Not to rush healing.

Simply to create a place where your story can be heard with compassion, honesty, and hope.

I believe people need people.

I believe presence is a practice.

And I believe no one should have to carry life's heaviest moments alone.

Whatever your grief looks like, you don't have to minimize it here. If it matters to you, it matters.

If our paths have crossed, I hope you know this:

You're welcome here.