Finding Hope Through Grief

There are conversations that meet you exactly where you are—and this one felt like that.

In this episode, Light in the Battle, I sat down with Christine Marzullo, founder of Together At Peace, to talk about something we don’t always know how to put into words: how to carry both grief and hope at the same time.

Because if you’ve experienced loss, you know it’s not one or the other. It’s both.

Christine shared how her own journey, after losing her father, revealed a gap in the way we talk about grief. There were spaces to process the pain, but not always spaces to hold onto the love in a hopeful, forward-moving way. And from that realization, Together At Peace was created.

Not as a replacement for grief but as a companion to it.

A space that gently reminds you that even in loss, love doesn’t disappear. It shifts.

One of the ideas that stayed with me most was something Christine calls “memory moments.” The small, intentional ways we either notice or create moments that remind us that love is still present. Something as simple as lighting a candle. Pausing. Letting yourself feel both the ache and the connection at the same time.

Because that’s the truth of it. Grief isn’t linear, and it isn’t something we move past.

It’s something we learn to carry.

And in that carrying, we also make space for joy, for connection, for life to continue in a new way.

Christine spoke so beautifully about this idea that after loss, you are different. You don’t return to who you were before, you learn how to exist as someone new. Someone who holds both a deep wound and a deep love at the same time.

And maybe that’s where hope lives.

Not in the absence of pain but in the presence of love that continues.

Through her Comfort Club and the Together At Peace community, Christine has created a space where people can come together, share their stories, and simply not feel alone in what can often feel like an isolating experience. Because while grief is deeply personal, there is something powerful about being reminded that others are walking through it too.

That you don’t have to carry it by yourself.

One thing I kept thinking about during our conversation was the idea of hope as an anchor. Something that keeps us steady when everything else feels uncertain. And sometimes, that anchor is simply choosing to believe in the love we can’t physically see but still feel.

That love doesn’t leave. It just changes form.

A reminder that even in the hardest seasons, there can still be light. Not because the battle disappears but because we learn how to carry it differently.

And in doing so, we begin to find our way forward.

Watch below.