Christina Rasmussen
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Christina Rasmussen | |
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| Born | April 21, 1972 |
| Occupation | Founder, author, and CEO of Second Firsts |
| Alma mater | University of Durham Northeastern University |
| Notable work | Second Firsts: Live, Laugh, and Love Again |
Christina Rasmussen is a Greek–American crisis intervention counselor and author. She is best known for writing Second Firsts, a 2013 book introducing a new model of grief based on the science of neuroplasticity, as well as creating a grief counseling organization of the same name.
In September 1998, Rasmussen delivered her master's thesis on the stages of grief at the University of Durham in England.[1]
In 2003, Rasmussen's husband of 10 years, Bjarne Rasmussen, was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.[2] On July 21, 2006, he died in the intensive care unit of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at the age of thirty-five.[2]
While grieving, Rasmussen continued working to support her two children.[2] She obtained a graduate certificate in human resource management from Northeastern University, and joined the human resource department at Parexel, a multinational life sciences consulting firm.[3]
In September 2010, she started writing her weekly letter on her site Second Firsts which began her journey as a writer.
On November 4, 2013, her first book Second Firsts[4] was published by Hay House.[5]
The Life Reentry Institute[6] was born in 2017 bringing forth a professional curriculum to allow for professionals to bring Life Reentry into their work.
In December 2018 Rasmussen published her first book with HarperOne, Where Did You Go? It received critical reviews from religious establishments such as the National Catholic Reporter.[7]
