Stephanie Infante is a grief coach, disability advocate, and speaker who brings depth, honesty, and compassion to conversations surrounding loss, trauma, disability, and faith. Her work centers lived experience as expertise and invites audiences to heal—without rushing, fixing, or minimizing pain. Each engagement is trauma-informed, inclusive, and designed to foster reflection, connection, and meaning.
Stephanie’s approach is trauma-informed, disability-aware, inclusive, story-driven, and rooted in lived and professional experience. Engagements are available as keynotes, panels, workshops, or intimate group sessions and can be customized to meet audience needs.
Disability & Grief: Living at the Intersection
Grief and disability often coexist, yet are rarely discussed together. This talk explores the layered experience of grieving while navigating a body and world shaped by medical trauma, accessibility barriers, and chronic adaptation.
- How disability shapes the grief experience
- Medical trauma and lifelong resilience
- The emotional labor of surviving systems not built for disabled bodies
- Creating inclusive, accessible spaces to heal
Heal Unite for Gun Safety: Lived Experience as Advocacy
Heal Unite for Gun Safety centers those directly impacted by gun violence and honors grief as a catalyst for connection, remembrance, and change. Stephanie speaks from lived experience, holding space for pain while advocating for collective healing and safety.
- Grief after sudden and violent loss
- Honoring lives lost without commodifying trauma
- Transforming pain into purpose—without pressure
- Storytelling, memory, and community as pathways to heal
Continuing Bonds Theory & Journaling: Healing Through Connection
Grief does not end—it transforms. Grounded in Continuing Bonds Theory, this talk reframes grief as an ongoing relationship rather than something to “move on” from.
- Continuing Bonds Theory in accessible language
- Maintaining connection with loved ones who have died
- Journaling as a practice for memory, meaning, and presence
- Writing as a tool to heal, reflect, and remember
Rebuilding Faith After Trauma
Trauma can fracture faith, silence prayer, and create distance from spirituality. This talk speaks to those navigating grief, loss, or life-altering experiences who are questioning what faith looks like now.
- Spiritual rupture after trauma and grief
- Rebuilding faith without guilt, pressure, or platitudes
- Making room for doubt, anger, and unanswered questions
- Faith as relationship, not performance