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Author Lisa Kumagai

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Knock Knock, Who’s There? This Widow’s Truth

by Lisa Kumagai in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
November 3, 2021
“Maybe I shouldn’t write for other widows as my audience.”        “Why not?” “Because my narrative isn’t about missing my husband and the tender moments we shared in the end. I feel like an atypical widow that way. ...
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National Grief Awareness Day: Grief is a Complex Son of a B*tch

by Lisa Kumagai in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Solo Parenting
August 30, 2021August 27, 2021
Several years ago I learned about International Widow's Day (June 23rd), a day set aside to recognize the hardships that widows face from loss, that fell one day after National Onion Rings Day. Even after becoming a widow in December ...
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Pass the Pen to Your Other Hand…

by Lisa Kumagai in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
August 8, 2021August 8, 2021
I met him when I was 26 years old and we married at 28. By 42, I was a suicide widow and single mom to two children. Post-loss, I found healing in somatic and family therapy, yoga, meditation and other ...
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Please Be Patient With Me

by Lisa Kumagai in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
July 23, 2021July 23, 2021
As I was making a left turn behind an unusually slow moving car, I gripped my steering wheel agitatedly and blurted out, "Why are you driving so slow?! You're stopping the flow of traffic. UGH!"  And then I saw it. ...
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A Would-Be Platinum Fairy Tale

by Lisa Kumagai in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
July 7, 2021July 7, 2021
7/7/2001. Twenty years ago today Steve and I got married on a sun-drenched veranda overlooking the hills , under a rose-embellished gazebo, witnessed by 210 of our closest friends, family, and absolute strangers (aka our parents' friends we'd never met ...
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