Cindy Gum

Cindy Gum is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with professional training in grief and loss, transitions, aging, and end of life. She was also a caregiver for her husband Stan for fifteen years. After her husband’s death in 2020, she began to realize how much her journaling practice had helped her hold on through the emotional challenges and difficulties she had faced. She began a program and training at Stanford University to examine how she might help caregivers, and now serves as a Stanford University Ambassador of Compassion through the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, emphasizing the importance of compassion to our health and humanity.