Heike Mertins

Heike Mertins is an author, blogger and speaker about grief, grieving and recovery. She is the author of Grief is...Thoughts on loss, struggle and new beginnings (2017) which chronicles her journey through the bizarre, frustrating and humourous world of incomprehensible loss. Following the death of her brother and husband, Heike began to document the process of loss, revealing the isolation, emotion and healing that accompanies a momentous life change.

Mertins' writings pull back the curtain of one of the few experiences we still prefer to not think about. A taboo that leaves those who grieve isolated and those wishing to support them at a loss as to how to do so. A taboo it is her personal mission to help dismantle.