MIAMI – One Miami Beach woman is using her own experience with devastating loss to help others by creating a platform to bring “healing at hand.”
“Aaron and I met in LA in 2008 and it was a beautiful romance,” Karine Nissim recalled happier times with her husband Aaron Hirschhorn. “There was a horrible accident and we lost him and it was very tricky.”
A tech founder and entrepreneur, Hirschhorn was killed in a Biscayne Bay boating accident in March 2021.
He was 42 years old with three children and a loving wife.
“Since then, it’s been an interesting and bumpy journey of healing and growth and coming to terms with my new identity as a young widow and a solo mom,” Nissim said.
She doesn’t want others to ever feel like they are grieving alone.
So she and her business partner, a fellow widow, created DayNew, an app to help with the organizational, emotional and social aspects of life after loss.
“It’s for anyone going through any kind of trauma, like loss, divorce, illness,” Nissim explained. “They answer a few questions and get features like ‘Find a Buddy’ or a community page where you can communicate to the people in your life the ways they can help you beyond flowers and casseroles without having to ask directly.”