Move Forward Stronger: A Dynamic Framework to Process Change, Loss, and Grief

by Julia A. Nicholson

Heralded as is like a friend when we’re in need, the therapist we’re hesitant to call, and the inner voice we’ve been listening for ... telling “You feel happiness again.”

The death of someone you love. A divorce or loss of a close relationship, job, career, or business. A negative change in your financial picture. A medical diagnosis or tragic accident. A physical or emotional injury.

How you cope with and process determines the quality of your life, your interactions, and relationships after . Julia A. Nicholson’s provides a dynamic framework that empowers you with a new mindset, equips you with practical tools to use in any situation (personally or professionally), and gives you a new way to process unwanted change and loss in a positive and productive way, integrate into your life, and get something valuable from going forward. Whether you’re looking to be inspired by the courageous and candid personal story of someone who has endured more than her fair share of adversity and loss, or you open the pages of seeking help in coping with your own unwanted change, loss, or grief, Julia’s stories and insights will leave you believing in the strength of the human spirit. You’ll emerge believing in the power within yourself to instead of getting stuck in what happened — confident knowing that you process change, loss, and grief in a positive and productive way, and that you can learn to live your losses instead of living them.

If you are stuck in feelings and emotions of grief and the conventional wisdom isn’t helping you, you’re not losing your mind (though sometimes it might feel that way). What happened to you cannot be undone or bargained away. You are not a failure. There is nothing wrong with you, and .

“For people like me, who have been ready to give up on life more than once, how do we find momentum, a purpose, or a reason to go on living in the face of our feelings and emotions? It’s not about being knocked down and getting back up one more time. Yes, getting up is important, but you get back up — ideally more confident, determined, resilient, stronger — is what truly makes the difference.”
— Julia A. Nicholson, Author of

240 pages, Paperback

Published January 24, 2023

About the author

Julia Nicholson’s life has been riddled with unwanted change, loss, and adversity. As a teenager, she was a passenger in a high-speed, head-on automobile collision that nearly took her life, leaving her unconscious and critically injured. A few years later, fresh off a harrowing divorce from an abusive husband, she found herself a single, unemployed mother of two young children, lacking self-confidence, self-esteem, and any marketable skills or education.

Just over a decade later, Julia had earned a bachelor’s degree and an MBA, was named the CEO of a $450 million company, and had her own independent consulting business, all while raising her two young children. Her career has taken her into some of the most dynamic, high-pressure boardrooms in the country, most recently serving as the CEO of MPI, a multibillion-dollar company serving the entertainment industry. Julia is a consultant to pension and benefit plans across the country and an adjunct professor where she shares what she’s learned with future business leaders.

Julia learned how to thrive after unwanted changes and loss, personally and professionally and now she’s sharing what she learned in her forthcoming book “Move Forward Stronger: A Dynamic Framework to Process Change, Loss, and Grief” and to keynote audiences around the country— and donating proceeds to charities that serve people in the areas of mental health and wellness, suicide awareness and intervention, and military service members and their families.