On my dresser sits 2 pairs of goggles. The rose colored goggles I've worn my entire life and my new widow goggles. Each morning, since the last 2 years, I have to make a decision on which goggles to put ...
“You should really consider coming to Bereavement Yoga,” My grief counselor suggested. She hung on the word 'really' for an uncomfortable amount of time while grinning. I finished explaining to her my mixed emotions about my upcoming move. My husband ...
As a widowed woman who is ten years out and considers herself a 'veteran', I thought I knew all there was to grief. How arrogant of me. I had grieved my husband's death, or so I thought. I was there ...
Crystal Sound Healing By Jill Hochman Board Member, Hope for Widows Foundation Have you ever heard about crystal singing bowls or crystal sound healing? If you ever have the chance to listen to crystal bowls, you may find it ...
I used to love a boy named Phillip. He was nineteen and I was twenty-one. It was 2004 and we were both addicts together. He of drugs that had slangs I had never even heard of, and I of loveless sex and sexless love. ...
Friendships can last a lifetime, or sometimes for only a season. This unexpected friendship pulled me from the hell of grief. This little cycling studio in Short Hills, NJ opened up the same month my husband passed away, November 2013. ...
The man i didn’t want - A Widow's Love Story January 2008 in the heart of the winter, that is when he came into my life - the man I didn’t want. My heart frozen in time, hardened like the ...