About Us
About Rise Through Love
Healing. Intention. Transformation.
Rise Through Love was born from our shared journey through grief and the sacred desire to transform pain into purpose.
We are Dr. Katie Branter and Sylvie Gordaneer—aunt and niece, bound not only by family but by a calling to help others heal, reconnect, and rise through the power of love.
What began as one journal created from the depths of loss has grown into a movement—an ecosystem of intentional products, mentorship experiences, and community events designed to help women return home to themselves and create lives rooted in meaning, beauty, and wholeness.
Our Story
Katie’s Journey
As a doctor of naturopathic medicine, my work has always centered around healing. But when I faced the sudden loss of my son, I entered uncharted territory. Grief stripped away everything I thought I knew about life—and in that emptiness, I found a new language of healing through love, intention, and ritual.
Rise Through Love became the bridge between my professional path and my personal rebirth—a way to offer others the same tools that helped me find light in the darkest places.
Sylvie’s Journey
Losing my father at a young age left me searching for meaning and a place to channel my pain. Art and storytelling became my sanctuary, a way to give form to the unspeakable and beauty to the broken. When Katie and I came together to create Rise Through Love, it felt like weaving a tapestry of our shared experiences—honoring the loss, but choosing to build something beautiful from it.
Our Mission
To help women and families transform grief, disconnection, and overwhelm into healing, creativity, and purpose.
We create intentional tools, transformative programs, and sacred spaces that invite reflection, restoration, and renewal. Every product, mentorship, and event we offer carries one simple message:
Healing is possible when we choose to rise through love.
What We Offer
🌿 The 365-Day Intention Journal
A full year of guided pages for daily intention setting and reflection—designed to bring clarity, calm, and connection into your everyday life. Each journal is crafted with care and infused with heart-centered energy to support your journey inward.
🌕 Group Mentorship & The Soul Architect Journey
A six-month sacred group mentorship designed for women who have achieved it all, yet feel called to reconnect with their wise and sacred self. Through nervous system regulation, intention, and aligned action, The Soul Architect Journey helps women bring their truest selves forward in every aspect of life.
✨ Events & Workshops
From intimate healing gatherings and visioning circles to transformative retreats, our in-person and online experiences are designed to help you slow down, reflect, and realign with what matters most. Each event carries the same signature energy of beauty, intention, and community.
🕯️ Ritual Tools & Products
Every offering—from our signature journal and upcoming oracle decks, to candles, loungewear, and self-care ritual sets—is created to bring love and sacred intention into the spaces where you live, create, and dream.
Our Heart of Giving
We believe in using business as a force for healing.
Rise Through Love provides scholarships for bereaved mothers who are ready to bring their dreams back to life, honoring the resilience of women who choose to rebuild through love.
Our Invitation
Rise Through Love is more than a brand—it’s a movement of remembrance, healing, and reconnection. Whether you journal with us, join a mentorship circle, or attend an event, you become part of a community dedicated to living with greater intention, beauty, and compassion.
Even in the darkest moments, love endures.
And through that love, we rise.