There’s a gremlin called grief and it pops up in the most inconvenient times. Couple holding hands in the store? No emotion. Walking past the camping isle in Walmart? Emotional breakdown. The gremlin called Grief doesn’t care if it’s been ...
Just to be clear, everyone you know has 100% chance of dying. Me, you and even your favorite dog. So why do people act so crazy when the inevitable happens? Because there’s no guidelines. There are social rules to everything ...
Most widows wonder what our deceased spouses would say to our new loves. Here is a completely fictional, but hopefully comforting letter. A letter to the man who gets to love my family after my death. When you get to ...
I bet most widows don’t talk about the bad or hard parts of their relationship with their deceased partners. Many of us don’t have people who are willing to listen and not criticize what we are saying. We still love ...
I’ve hit a new widowhood milestone. Rebellion. Over the last few months, I’ve decided I’m tired of being a widow. In fact, I was over this adventure the first 30 days of living it. I’m tired of feeling like I ...
As grievers we want to have the comfort of hearing from others who have walked in our shoes and made it. I personally love reading, podcasts and audio books. When I first became a widow, I didn’t want to go ...
I’ve always used the saying not my circus, not my monkeys. But what happens when it is your circus, and your monkeys are running amok? So are the elephants, lions, tigers and bears. The ringleader is crying in the corner ...
My husband and I only discussed one of us dying when one of our close friends passed away. Looking back, it was a judgmental conversation of what we would do or feel instead of a productive one. We didn’t fully ...
When I started this blog, I had someone tell me to give the advice I was looking for when I became a widow. I was a proactive in my grief process. I joined the Hot, Young Widows Club (it’s a ...
I celebrated our 2nd Easter without my husband this year. While this year was drastically different than our first one, I decided to add a step to the holiday grief cycle—Juggling. Being widowed during the holidays is a juggling act. ...