Compassion
We meet people where they are, with kindness and understanding.
About Grace Harbor
Compassion that remains
when the visit ends.
Grace Harbor Compassionate Services extends the reach of compassionate care through encouragement, education, practical guidance, remembrance, and hope for individuals and families facing caregiving, serious illness, grief, and healing.
Education
We provide clear, trustworthy information to help families navigate each step.
Guidance
We offer practical tools and gentle direction for today and tomorrow.
Hope
We believe healing is possible and that no one has to walk this path alone.
Welcome
Welcome to Grace Harbor
Grace Harbor is a refuge of comfort—offering brief daily support, optional deeper resources, and a steady place to breathe. Whether your grief is new, complicated, or resurfacing after years, you are welcome here.
We believe grief deserves both tenderness and guidance. Not pressure. Not clichés. Just honest support—one day, one breath, one step at a time.
Here you will find encouragement for hard days, practical tools for milestones and “firsts,” longer guided pathways when you are ready, and shareable language for friends and professionals who want to help but do not always know what to say.
Our Foundation
Our Mission
Grace Harbor Compassionate Services exists to extend the reach of compassionate care through encouragement, education, practical guidance, remembrance, and hope for individuals and families facing caregiving, serious illness, grief, and healing.
We offer steady, practical grief support for real life—gentle enough for a tender day, clear enough to be useful, and available when a visit has ended and the quiet returns.
Human compassion is irreplaceable. Accessible compassion is indispensable.
Looking Forward
Our Vision
We envision a world where every family facing loss can find a steady place to return— a harbor of comfort that remains on between visits, overnight, and across the months when grief changes shape.
Grace Harbor aims to be gentle, not clinical; grounded, not shallow; practical, not pushy; and hopeful, not dismissive—so people leave feeling more informed, more supported, more prepared, and less alone than when they arrived.
Our Family of Care
One Mission. Two Expressions.
Grace Harbor Compassionate Services is a ministry of Heaven Sent, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to compassionate care through education, remembrance, practical support, and hope.
Together, Heaven Sent and Grace Harbor share one mission while serving different needs.
Heaven Sent focuses primarily on pregnancy, infant loss, children's remembrance, and family healing. Grace Harbor extends that same compassionate mission to adults, caregivers, serious illness, hospice families, professionals, and communities navigating grief and life's difficult transitions.
Together they provide a lifelong continuum of compassionate care—from a baby's first heartbeat to the many seasons of healing that follow loss.
Heaven Sent
Supporting children, parents, grandparents, and families through pregnancy loss, infant loss, remembrance, healing, education, and family-centered ministries.
Grace Harbor
Providing compassionate guidance, grief education, caregiver support, practical planning resources, professional partnerships, and lifelong encouragement for adults and families.
One heart. One mission. Two pathways of compassionate care.
Our Work
Our Programs and Ministries
Grace Harbor Compassionate Services
Grace Harbor provides adult, family, grief-support, educational, preparation, remembrance, and professional-resource programs.
Finding Your Footing
A gentle starting place for comfort, support, and clarity in the unsettled moments that often follow loss.
Explore this program ?Growing Your Strength
Daily encouragement for regaining strength, building steadiness, and caring for yourself as grief changes shape.
Explore this program ?Restoring Your Horizon
Guided Pathways offering thoughtful, month-by-month support shaped around different seasons and circumstances of loss.
Explore this program ?Days Held in Memory
Short, situation-based grief briefs for difficult days, holidays, anniversaries, sleep trouble, anxiety, and caregiver strain.
Explore this program ?Briefs Along the Way
A signs-and-symptoms library that helps families recognize what grief can look like and how to respond with care.
Explore this program ?Passing Conversations
Gentle language and conversation support for moments when words are hard to find and connection still matters.
Explore this program ?Preparing with Love
Gentle planning for the people, places, and futures families hope to protect—with compassion and plain language.
Explore this program ?Professional Partners
Shareable grief-support resources for hospice, palliative care, chaplaincy, funeral/aftercare, and related care teams.
Explore this program ?Heaven Sent Ministries
Heaven Sent serves children, parents, grandparents, and families affected by miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, childhood grief, remembrance, and healing.
Heaven Sent
Infant and child loss support where every child is remembered—gentle reflections for families walking through miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, and SIDS.
Explore this program ?Early Loss & Miscarriage
Support for the quiet and often unseen grief of miscarriage and early pregnancy loss, honoring love from the moment a baby was known.
Explore this program ?Sudden Loss & SIDS
Gentle support for parents navigating the shock and sudden absence that can follow unexpected infant loss.
Explore this program ?Remembering Your Baby
Reflections that honor a baby’s life, love, and lasting place in a family’s heart—no matter how brief that life may have been.
Explore this program ?Marriage & Family
Guidance for partners, siblings, and family rhythms when grief touches every relationship differently.
Explore this program ?When Others Don’t Understand
Reassurance for parents facing silence, awkward comments, or misunderstanding after infant or child loss.
Explore this program ?Our Community
Who We Serve
Grace Harbor welcomes individuals and families navigating caregiving, serious illness, grief, and healing— and the professionals who walk beside them. Support is offered without pressure, at a pace that respects where each person is today.
Individuals and Families
People carrying new, complicated, or long-standing grief who need steady encouragement, practical tools, and a place to return when the day feels heavy.
Children and Parents
Parents and families supporting children through loss, change, and remembrance—with language and resources that honor both tenderness and honesty.
Caregivers and Serious Illness
Caregivers and families living through serious illness who need support that remains available between appointments, overnight, and in the quiet after a visit ends.
Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Parents, grandparents, and loved ones affected by miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, and related grief, through Heaven Sent Ministries.
Military and First-Responder Families
Families shaped by service, sacrifice, and the unique weight of loss that can follow duty, deployment, and high-risk callings.
Professionals and Community Partners
Hospice and palliative nurses, chaplains, funeral and aftercare teams, pastors, and community partners seeking shareable, low-lift grief resources for families.
For Those Who Serve Families
Extending the Reach of Professional Care
Hospice nurses, chaplains, caregivers, and aftercare professionals already offer irreplaceable human presence. Grace Harbor was built to extend that care after the visit ends—steady, gentle, and easy to refer— so families have something trustworthy to open when questions rise in the night.
Resources are educational and emotionally supportive only. They are not medical, mental-health, or crisis care. You remain the clinician or caregiver. Grace Harbor remains the support extension.
“Tonight, when you cannot sleep and questions begin coming, visit Grace Harbor. There are resources there for exactly what you are experiencing.”
Grace Harbor does not replace that human presence. It extends it.
For Families
Why Families Can Trust Grace Harbor
Families can trust Grace Harbor because it comes from decades of direct family care and grief education, tells the truth about what it is, and offers guidance without rushing anyone toward a false finish line. You can move privately, at your own pace, and return whenever you need.
Compassionate
Support created with care for the realities families carry.
Practical
Clear, usable guidance for real days—not empty slogans.
Educational
Grief education and gentle language that help people understand what they are experiencing.
Respectful
Faith, questions, silence, and quiet strength are all welcome here.
Accessible
No login required for core resources—support available when the visit ends and the quiet returns.
Pressure-free
No rush to “be okay.” Begin where you are and move as grief changes.
Meet the Founder
Tracy R. Lee, FD
Tracy R. Lee, FD, is the founder and executive director of Grace Harbor Compassionate Services, a nonprofit organization devoted to extending practical resources, compassionate encouragement, and hope to individuals, families, caregivers, and professionals navigating grief and life’s most difficult transitions.
A licensed funeral director and embalmer, author, educator, nonprofit founder, and compassionate-care leader, Tracy has devoted more than two decades to serving families with dignity, kindness, and practical support. She completed her Funeral Service and Restorative Arts education through the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service and pursued grief studies through the American Institute of Health Care Professionals and Columbia University. She is currently completing a second Bachelor of Science degree at Texas A&M University–Texarkana.
Throughout her career, Tracy has brought together funeral service, grief education, nonprofit leadership, writing, creative work, and community outreach as part of a lifelong commitment to compassionate care. She served as Caregiver Program Director for Easter Seals, founded Heaven Sent, Inc. to support families experiencing pregnancy and infant loss, and remains the owner of Queen City Funeral Home in Queen City, Texas.
Her syndicated grief column, Pushing Up Daisies, has been reprinted more than 1.5 million times through newspapers, magazines, professional journals, and other publications. She has authored more than 60 books, booklets, and grief-support resources, including the Mourning Lights series, Mourning Coffee for the Mourning Soul series, Memory Jar series, children’s grief books, grief coloring books, and other works created to comfort, educate, and encourage. Tracy has also been commissioned to develop healing materials for grade-school students and hospice organizations and presents continuing education courses related to grief and compassionate care.
Tracy is also a retired professional portrait artist whose career spanned approximately twenty years. During the busiest years of her art career, she completed more than 400 commissioned portraits annually. She served as the Official Hall of Fame Artist for the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame and remains the owner of Angel Shots Photography. She continues to accept selected commissioned painting projects that support nonprofit organizations.
Grace Harbor Compassionate Services represents the culmination of Tracy’s professional experience and personal calling. Through its programs, educational resources, and compassionate partnerships, she seeks to help people find steadiness, renewed purpose, and hope while reminding them that they do not have to carry grief alone.
Above all, Tracy treasures her faith, family, and meaningful relationships. She remains committed to fostering healing through gentle kindness, helping others discover purpose and joy, and remaining actively present in the lives of those she loves.
Professional Background
Leadership & Professional Service
- Founder and Executive Director, Grace Harbor Compassionate Services
- Founder and Executive Director, Heaven Sent, Inc.
- Owner, Queen City Funeral Home, Queen City, Texas
- Caregiver Program Director, Easter Seals
- Works collaboratively with hospice organizations and compassionate-care professionals
Licensure & Grief Care
- Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer — Texas and Arkansas
- Licensed Pre-Need and Life Insurance Agent
- Former Certified Grief Counselor
- Grief Studies — American Institute of Health Care Professionals
- Grief Studies — Columbia University
- Presenter of continuing education courses related to grief and compassionate care
Education
- Funeral Service and Restorative Arts — Dallas Institute of Funeral Service
- Bachelor of Science in Leadership — Texas A&M University–Texarkana (in progress)
Author, Columnist & Educational Developer
- Author of more than 60 books, booklets, and grief-support resources
- Mourning Lights series — 5 books
- Pushing Up Daisies — 1 book
- Someone Has Died children’s series — 2 books
- Saying Good-Bye grief coloring book series — 2 books
- Mourning Coffee for the Mourning Soul series — 10 books
- Memory Jar series — 40 books
- Virtuous Women — 1 book
- Syndicated grief columnist, Pushing Up Daisies — more than 1.5 million reprints
- Commissioned writer of healing materials for grade-school students
- Commissioned developer of grief and healing materials for hospice organizations
Fine Arts & Photography
- Professional Portrait Artist — retired
- Approximately twenty years as a professional commissioned portrait artist
- More than 400 commissioned portraits completed annually during peak production years
- Former Official Hall of Fame Artist, International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Owner, Angel Shots Photography
- Continues to accept selected commissioned paintings benefiting nonprofit organizations
Our Approach
What Makes Grace Harbor Different
Compassion
Human presence first—then words, tools, and encouragement that stay kind when grief is heavy.
Accessibility
Support designed to remain available between visits, overnight, and across changing seasons of grief.
Practical Guidance
Clear next steps for hard days, milestones, and the ordinary moments when loss still asks something of you.
Gentle Education
Grief education that informs without overwhelming—helping people name what they feel and why it matters.
Respect
Respect for faith, questions, culture, silence, and the dignity of each family’s story.
Legacy
Rooted in funeral service, grief counseling, and decades of family care—built to leave light behind.
Our Promise
A Steady Place to Return
Whether someone visits Grace Harbor for five minutes or returns for many months, our hope is that they leave feeling more informed, more supported, more prepared, and less alone than when they arrived.
The lighthouse remains on.
Grace Harbor provides educational, comfort, remembrance, and family-support resources. Its materials are not a substitute for medical, mental-health, legal, pastoral, crisis, or other professional care.