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Category Coping Mechanisms

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Companions

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
June 8, 2024
Everything changes when you are stripped of your life partner. Nearly every widow feels desperately alone in spite of the fact losing a spouse is almost a universal experience. There is no way to prepare for the devastating impact this ...
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Social Support

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
May 25, 2024May 25, 2024
Widows face challenging social life changes in the wake of the loss of her husband. Making the adjustment to life after a spouse dies is filled with many endings and beginnings of relationships. This is a reality that is not ...
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May Paradox

by Ajai Blue-Saunders in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
May 25, 2024
The month of May brings a mixture of complex emotions.  On May 1, 2015, my husband died at 10:30pm at a local hospital after resting (sedated) there for only 3 days.  The memories of that day and time are still ...
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Pain is not a Competition

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
May 17, 2024
When we are in the throes of deep grief, it's tough to imagine how anything else, ever, could be worse than what we are feeling. Pain and grief feel incredibly isolating. They are deceptive as well - even when others ...
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Getting Anchored

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
May 11, 2024
God’s consistent love and guidance is a gift we can count on in this very uncertain and difficult world we live in. As widows, no matter how fresh our sorrow is, or how long we already traveled with grief as ...
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The Gremlin Called Grief

by Nicole Jacquez in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
May 6, 2024May 6, 2024
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 ...
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Navigating Mother’s Day

by Dorothy Swanson in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
May 1, 2024May 1, 2024
Navigating Mother's Day   Mother’s Day is coming. In the view of those whose lives have not been acquainted with a loss of this magnitude and the stabbing pain of grief that follows, perhaps to them mother’s day is a ...
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Personalized Grief

by Ajai Blue-Saunders in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
April 27, 2024April 28, 2024
He stood in line waiting to place his order at the fast-food restaurant.  The line was long, full of seemingly hungry boys and girls, men and women all waiting to eat during a busy lunch time.  The smell of the ...
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Life After Love

by Diana Henderson in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
April 21, 2024April 21, 2024
The loss of a beloved partner is devasting and when my husband, Monty, was killed I wanted answers. Almost two years later, the answer to my initial question of “WHY?” is still elusive. After the widow’s fog lifted, even more ...
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Glimmers Through The Grief

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
April 13, 2024April 15, 2024
What is a Glimmer? Glimmers are small moments of joy or peace that arise from appreciating simple things like the colors of a rainbow, the scent of a flower, or the sound of the rain. Glimmers and triggers are opposites in ...
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