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Teri’s dance with grief actually began over five years before she watched her beloved husband of almost 37 years take his last breath and enter Heaven’s door on October 6, 2019. A terminal degenerative neurological disease steadily and increasingly attacked nearly every major system of his body and transformed him from a vibrant, brilliant, strong and caring man to a bedfast invalid at the end. She was devoted to caring for him and doing her best to make the most of every minute they had left, to love him and pray for a miracle.

She thought she knew what her future held, but she had no idea. Losing him was the first time she experienced a close and personal loss. He was the love of her life. The onslaught of the pandemic with its reign of fear-mongering, forced isolation and separation entering the scene and disrupting or destroying whatever sense of “normal” that remained, just added insult to injury.

Her faith in God is the sustaining force keeping her fighting spirit to find and share hope in a bright future. Her heart’s desire is to walk beside her fellow widows toward a path of promise and healing. She wants to offer encouragement and hope so others can find the strength to take that next breath or next step. She recently started her own blog, https://widowwhispers.blogspot.com/, to share with other widows not only the struggles and hardships of widowhood, but the triumphs. Her hope is found in leaning on the Lord Jesus to enjoy a God inspired future anchored in expectation He will bring us to a fulfilling and meaningful life.

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Finding Forward

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
May 19, 2023
Finding our way forward after the death of our husband is not as easy as some would like us to believe. The grief we face is far more than being sad we lost our husband. Depending on how long we ...
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Emotional Strength

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
May 5, 2023May 5, 2023
One of the things I miss the most about my husband was our strong emotional connection. We shared a common unspoken language by staying alert and knowledgeable of each other’s needs, problems, likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses. It was ...
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National Widows Day – Let Love Lead

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
May 2, 2023May 2, 2023
National Widows Day this year is on Wednesday, May 3, 2023.  National Widows Day was established to heighten awareness of the struggles and hardships many widows experience after the death of her husband. The Hope for Widows Foundation reminds us ...
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Markers on the Journey

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
April 21, 2023April 21, 2023
We organize and bring order to our lives with time and seasons. We use clocks and calendars, weights and measures, and history and future to mark the places, experiences and events of our journey to make it possible to relate ...
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A Trek Through Transition

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
April 7, 2023
The journey through grief is really a trek through transition. This is especially true for a widow. Our life with our husband is so completely different than the life we find after he moves to Heaven. It is an ongoing ...
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Loneliness

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
March 24, 2023
What do you do when your heart is broken and you don’t feel like you have anyone to share it with? Sometimes the sadness gets you down. We’re not all blessed with those people in our lives we can lean ...
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Fresh Start

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
March 10, 2023
Have you ever wished you could have a do over? To change choices you made, but with the knowledge you have now? Life is full of challenges, obstacles, and defining moments. In fact we do have the option of changing ...
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Growth in Progress

by Teri Miner in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
February 24, 2023February 24, 2023
Navigating through the days, weeks… even moments at times… of our journey through life after losing our husband can range from uncomfortable to formidable, and prayerfully eventually stabilize to some degree. Over time we learn to grow even as we ...
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It is Well with My Soul

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
February 10, 2023March 4, 2025
Widows understand better than most how unpredictable life can be. Our lives are a mixture of joys and sorrows. Both beautiful blessings and distressing difficulties can come along unexpectedly causing life’s dreams and plans to change. Some of these happen ...
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Tears in a Bottle

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
January 27, 2023January 27, 2023
Widowhood – an unexpected and unwanted sideroad our life is forced to take when our husband moves to heaven. Unexpected? Yes, even though I was his fulltime caregiver for years and the doctors kept telling us his disease was aggressively ...
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