“Grief is physical,” Sack says. “Movement is the opposite of paralysis.” Following the January 2021 death of her 2 1/2-year-old daughter from a rare genetic disorder, Sack became a certified bereavement counselor, wrote a book, and created E-Motion, a nonprofit movement-based program to help people work through their own grief. “It was obvious to me that the only way I was going to survive was if I lived in the service of others,” Sack says. 

E-Motion enables groups of eight to 10 people to meet weekly at no charge. Led by a trained facilitator, the groups acknowledge their feelings and walk or run together. So far, E-Motion groups have formed in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine. E-Motion also offers grief literacy training sessions and, for a fee, grief literacy training for companies and groups. 

After graduation, the government major and women’s soccer captain worked as chief program and strategy officer for SquashBusters, which provides academic tutoring and squash instruction to middle and high school students. “My teammates, coaches, and the extended community that comes with competing at a high level is ultimately the backbone of everything that is E-Motion,” she says. “Sport and team have always been places of refuge for me.” 

Sack, who lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Matt Goldstein, and their two children, hopes to develop E-Motion audios for people to use on their own. E-Motion also has begun to train others to start their own groups. “She’s on a mission to touch and help as many people as she can who have been through tragic losses of many kinds—not just the loss of a child,” says E-Motion advisor Harvey Weinberg ’78, a retired management consultant.