Cheryl Espinosa Jones MS

Dr. Cheryl Jones is a griefcounselor and the host of Good Grief radio at VoiceAmerica. Along with her private therapy practice, Cheryl is Manager ofProfessional Education at the Women’s Cancer Resource Center in Oakland, CAwhere she developed and manages their Continuing Education program in Cancer,Illness and End of Life. Duringher education as a Marriage and Family Therapist, her first wife was diagnosedwith Multiple Myeloma, which was at the time a uniformly terminal illness witha six month to one year prognosis. In the eight years that followed, Cherylengaged daily in the work of preparing for her wife’s death. She was trained duringthis period by Stephen and Ondrea Levine (Who Dies and Grieving Into Life andDeath) and Richard Olney (founder of Self-Acceptance Training). After herwife’s death, Cheryl immersed herself in her own multifaceted grief, startledby frequent moments of joy.