Cynthia Portaro Minister, Author, Keynote Speaker

Cynthia Portaro, Minister, Author, & Keynote Speaker.

Cynthia’s journey is a captivating and mesmerizing true story. In a blink of an eye, life changed drastically and traumatically for her and her family. The loss of her son, daughter, and her husband, all within a four-year period, was overwhelming, but she found a way to peace, turning the grief into glory.

Cynthia took her pain to the streets—ministering to an enormous portion of our population who suffer in silence with their own tragedies—grieving parents, widows, and friends who have lost children and family tragically from untimely deaths. Asking questions that should be asked of the grieving…

“What HAUNTS You?”

“Do You Bury Life from Your Past?”

“Are you stuck in Grief?”

“Do you have recurring tormenting thoughts?”

“Do you Isolate Yourself?”

“Are You Lonely?”

“Do you eat to comfort your feelings?”

“Do you feel guilty when you laugh?”

“Do you hide sexual or spousal abuse?”

“Are you addicted to substances?”

Society says, “Time to move on!” Never realizing that pain and grief take a lot of work—a lot of reliving—they can also become our greatest healers and our teachers.

Cynthia was nominated out of 2,500 stories submitted for the “2015 Heroine of Las Vegas”. She’s been interviewed and featured in Las Vegas Tonight Show, TBN, Market Watch, and various news shows.

Most recently featured on the cover of My Vegas Magazine of 2020 as, “Top 100 Influential Women of Las Vegas”. Sharing Godly wisdom with lives shattered by the most unthinkable trauma is her passion.

Her motto has been to serve, to inspire people and offer hope in the most difficult “hurting seasons.” Her goal is for those who have been or going through tragedy, to understand with Christ we will build life again, help mend their broken hearts, and say…

“Because of you, I did not give up …

I, too, can …walk through what I will never get over!”

You can follow her blog—A Time to Heal—on her Facebook page. Cynthia is also the founder of the Mourning Hope of Las Vegas.

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Why Book Cynthia

  • She inspires those through unimaginable tragedy to regain hope and trust in God. Sharing her own very personal journey through loss, illness and much suffering, she offers restoration and new beginnings in Christ.

  • Teaching those who have experienced life’s most difficult seasons … “How to walk through” difficulties.

  • She brings life teaching a new meaning of the stages through loss. Most still teach the old cliché out of the “BOX” this is how you will feel and in this particular order of stages.

  • Her prophetic insight in prayer and praying for others is beyond how the Holy Spirit continually speaks to us and through us.

  • She motivates, inspires and brings hope to a hurting world. “Change is inevitable, triumph through it, is learned.”

  • Most importantly to her, she shares wisdom to those who do not know how to respond to families when tragedy strikes them in “The Blink of an Eye.”

 

Finally, her most unimaginable soul torture, having to sit through her son’s murder trial without her husband by her side. She shares vivid details of her son’s murder trial, which began on February 15, 2015. How does anyone listen and watch what she had to witness is beyond comprehension. Then what she does in that courtroom for her son’s killer is truly “Beyond the Unthinkable”. Forgiving took on an entire new meaning for me after hearing her story … the audience was more than captivated. I would highly recommend Cynthia for your conference.

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It took me eight years to give my children freely back to God!

The ocean our family loved so much and seemed the most real where He leaves His footprints in the sand. “Dust Thou Art … Dust, Shalt Thou Return.” Letting go of what will forever be in my heart and soul is an act of willingness to allow Him to heal me. The depth of my hurt does not define whom God made me in Christ or where I am headed.

World here I come…watch out…see what He will do in and through me.

May my journey strengthen you… Cynthia Portaro.

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Mother tells son's killer that she forgives him in court