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Category Coping Mechanisms

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National Grief Awareness:New Season

by Kimberly Nicole Johnson in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health
August 27, 2018June 19, 2020
The Season  I can smell the memories coming back reminding me of what I was about to lose in 30 days. I can feel it in the atmosphere deep in my bones my cell memory is regurgitating all those feelings ...
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Firsts. They suck.

by Marissa Mast in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting
August 24, 2018June 19, 2020
After Nate died, I was told so many times that the first year would be the worst because of all the “firsts” I would have to go through without him. In the back of my mind, I knew this would ...
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Widowhood Can Suck But It Doesn’t Have To Forever

by Carla Duff in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting
August 22, 2018June 19, 2020
Being a widow can really suck.   Watching your husband die sucks Telling your child their dad died and is never coming home sucks. Having to move forward because their is no other option sucks. Death sucks.  And it sucks ...
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Sparking Life at Spark of Life – Living Forward

by Dori Ann Dupre in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing
August 19, 2018
A few months ago, I felt like I was at an awkward phase in my grief process. I stood at a large and gaping hole – a gap, really – between staring backward at the barren wasteland that was my ...
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Moving Day

by Susan Leathers in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
August 13, 2018June 19, 2020
I bought a house. I bought it six months after losing Todd, the love of my life. I know, I know. Widows aren’t supposed to make any big decisions in the first year of widowhood. “Widow’s fog” and all that. ...
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The Futility of the Physical

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief
August 12, 2018June 19, 2020
In 1997, my husband created a logo. I was working for a man who owned a small business, and the company was developing into a formidable competitor on the market. My teenage son worked there with me, and he had ...
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My Rucksack of Emotions

by Kelly Tabiner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Solo Parenting
August 10, 2018June 19, 2020
The day I heard that my partners body had been found, my emotions for him paused and I remained stuck in a world of guilt for many years. Guilt because I was still living, and my life was still moving ...
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A Year in the Life of a Widow.

by Marissa Mast in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
August 8, 2018June 19, 2020
Last night I spent a good hour reading the letters I had written Nate in the first few weeks after he died. The truth is, those days are such a blur...When I look back at his visitation hours and funeral, ...
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I Want To…But, I Just Can’t Right Now….

by Rebecca Cortez in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope for Widows Foundation
August 3, 2018June 19, 2020
(An Interesting Insight On What It’s Like To Be “In Grief”)   Today, I stumbled upon a PERFECT PICTURE of what it feels like when I am in grief. You know, when you NEED to do something.  I mean REALLY ...
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There’s No Crying in…SOFTBALL…

by Marissa Mast in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
August 1, 2018June 19, 2020
For ten months I have driven by Lou Berliner Sports Park on the way to the gym in a haze of sadness, anger, and anxious curiosity. Each time my car exits onto Greenlawn, my stomach starts turning and the gnawing ...
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