About Tina

My  passion for running continues to fuel the best medicine for life as I reach for a new goal of 19 races in 2019. Focusing on the  positive, scattering kindness and Paying it forward with a loving desire to give back with random acts of kindness, these are my truths...

While searching for a reason to go on after losing their five-year old son Ryan, she discovered that giving back could actually save her. Tina Zarlenga is married with two grown children and her first grandchild, sharing stories of inspiration and hope, as well as her journey through grief with emotional essays of life on her website  Unraveling My Heart the Write Way and through a campaign to pay it forward for Ryan she uncovered JOY. Published essays can be found in Bella Grace magazine, The Compassionate Friends, as well as many online communities.