Where Grief, Change, and Leadership Intersect

Integrating grief, neuroscience, and soul care for individuals and organizations in times of change.

Founded by Megan Malick, LMFT and Certified Brainspotting Practitioner, A New Path helps individuals and teams navigate the invisible work of grief, transition, and legacy.

Start Your Spiral (for Individuals)Explore the Survival Spiral (for Professionals)

Grief is not linear — it’s a spiral.

Each turn invites new awareness, resilience, and meaning.
Whether you’re finding your footing after loss, listening for what’s next, or learning to lead through change, there’s a place for you here.

Change = Loss = Grief — and every transition holds an invitation to become.

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Spiral One: Survival

 

Meeting Basic Needs. Finding Your Footing.

When life changes, even simple tasks can feel monumental.

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Spiral Two: Listening

Integrating with Brainspotting

For personal and professional growth: a focused way to heal, regulate, and realign.

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The Survival Spiral™ for Professionals

Because grief doesn’t stop at the office door.

Professionals meet people in the most tender chapters of life — whether in a hospital, a boardroom, or across a desk.
The Survival Spiral™ helps teams recognize the signs of overwhelm and respond with compassion, clarity, and structure.

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Walk the Spiral with Me

Join The Accidental Matriarch for reflections, resources, and gentle guidance for both humans and professionals learning to live and lead through change.

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About Megan Malick

I’m Megan Malick. I’m the first of the last — I literally started programs in their final year. College, two grad programs, a post-grad. When I got to the library freshman year, they’d already removed the card catalogue but hadn’t finished putting everything online. They told me to go browse the stacks.

My first teaching job, they handed me a red binder and said ‘this is the curriculum — but we don’t teach it anymore. There’s no textbook.’ I’ve had to make the path while walking it my whole life. So I became native to the liminal space — that uncomfortable place between what was and what’s next. T

Turns out, that’s exactly where grief lives. And transition. And becoming.

So now I guide people there — grieving people, heart-led helpers, soulopreneurs in the middle of a pivot. My book is the breadcrumb trail and travel guide I wish I’d had when my parents died. I’m a therapist, a grief guide, and a vocational doula. I like dark roast and deep conversations. I don’t do surface — and I help people get comfortable in the woods.

In my experience, each piece of paper filed and resolved felt like letting go of my people a little bit more. The practical aspects of paperwork and property enflesh the absence of your person.”

-Megan Malick, A New Path

Testimonials

Jill O’Leary Spencer

Shiva Healing Arts

“Megan speaks with so much compassion, clarity, and experience.  Listening to Megan is so comforting because I know that she is coming from a place of absolute love and healing guidance.”

Jen McManus

Student

“I first met Miss Malik as my middle school language arts teacher. Her warm personality created a welcoming classroom. She kept me engaged in each lesson with a variety of activities, creativity, and her storytelling ability. In addition to being an effective teacher, she made students feel seen, valued, and appreciated.”

Em Biever

The No More Bullsh*t Project

“I LOVE how Megan couples her clarity, wisdom and experience as a practitioner with her humanity, heart and humor as someone who has walked the walk of managing the very tough stuff that comes with losing a loved one. The group Megan facilitated inspired me and was truly empowering, despite the topic at hand being one we sometimes want to skirt around or avoid. Grateful she, and her expertise, exist!”

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