Trevilia Hodge
Author • Speaker • Grief Educator
Trevilia Hodge is a grief educator who helps people carry grief differently — not by moving on, but by moving forward, with the love still in the room. Through her books, her stages, and her workshops, she gives the grieving a language for what they thought no one could understand.
Book Trevilia to SpeakTrevilia Hodge is an author, speaker, Certified Grief Educator trained under David Kessler, and founder of Replace Loss with Love, an organization helping individuals navigate grief while honoring the love that remains.
She is a NAMI Sharing Hope Ambassador, certified in Mental Health First AIDE and AI through Andrew Ng, and a master class presenter for Building Esthers. She is a Rutgers University graduate with a background in Communications and Women’s Studies.
Her books include The Baby Elephant with the Blue Balloon, the Kayla the Kid children’s series, and her latest memoir, I AM SILENCE INTERRUPTED: A Griever’s Confession.
Trevilia is Miss Plus America Elite 2025–2026 and Ultimate Woman Plus America 2025. Her work has appeared in Voyage Dallas, Southern Dallas Magazine, Bold Journey, and CanvasRebel, with cover features in SevenFG and S.I.T.I. Girl magazines. Her children’s book was also featured on Tabitha Brown’s Very Good Mondays.
Live grief workshops on Zoom — education grounded in lived experience, professional training, and language that makes difficult conversations possible. Register free below: your Zoom link appears as soon as you register, and your registration goes straight to Trevilia.
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When grief follows students to campus — a death, home and belonging, or the end of a relationship. This work helps students name what changed, understand its impact, and reconnect with themselves.
Support beyond bereavement leave. Grief does not disappear when an employee signs back on — Trevilia helps leaders build cultures where loss is acknowledged with dignity, without asking managers to become therapists.
“If you’re grieving something, something or someone mattered to you.”
Story-led talks for conferences, universities, churches and organizations.
Interactive education designed around the needs of your people.
Clear, compassionate insight on grief, emotional wellness and rebuilding.
Facilitated spaces that help people feel seen, heard and understood.
“Grief matters because love mattered first.” Available for conferences, corporate wellness programs, HBCUs, universities, faith communities and global engagements — welcoming conversations for 2026–2027.
After the loss of her youngest brother, Trevilia chose not to restart the podcast. Poetry became the quieter, truer place to keep speaking — through reflection, faith, questions, and the language grief leaves behind.
Some seasons do not ask for a microphone. They ask for a page. New poetry and personal reflections from Trevilia Hodge.
Read a recent piece Subscribe on SubstackA companion for the days grief shows up uninvited — gentle support, in your pocket.
For speaking, workshops, panels, university programs, corporate wellness and community partnerships.
replacelosswithlove@gmail.com