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Novice in the New

by Teri Miner in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
July 1, 2025
Widows can feel like a novice in our new life… one so drastically different from what we knew. Where we once felt confident and strong, we can suddenly find ourself questioning everything. Our mind is in a fog and the ...
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The Unpredictability of Summer Grief

by Pam Williams in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
June 23, 2025
The Unpredictability of Summer GriefA personal reflection on navigating loss in the season of light Summer used to be one of my favorite times of year. I’d look forward to the longer days, the smell of backyard grilling, and the ...
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Notes From a Survivor

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
June 21, 2025
I was having a lazy morning in bed, doing the Wordle and Spelling Bee on my phone. It’s my typical wake up routine now that there’s no job to run to, and I appreciate every minute of it. For most ...
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A Widow’s Friends, New and Old

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
June 20, 2025
A few years ago, a thought occurred to me that prompted me to sit down and think deeply. Not long after Bret ended his life, I joined multiple support groups that I had found on social media. I don't recall ...
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What Grief Feels Like

by Carmen Myrtis-Garcia in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
June 18, 2025
Nothing can prepare us for what we really go through on this grief journey. No matter if our husband's death was sudden  or if there was a time of anticipatory grief through a long terminal illness, or somewhere in between.  ...
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What will life be like in five years?

by Dorothy Swanson in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
June 12, 2025June 12, 2025
How do you see your life in 5 years? I asked myself this yesterday and the answer terrified me. I usually avoid answering it at all costs. I have gotten so accustomed to surviving one day at a time. One ...
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On a Day Like Today

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
June 10, 2025
On a day like today, when I was 10 years old, I might have been lying on my bedroom floor, listening to the radio. "Neverending Story" by Limahl might have been playing, and the breeze might have been causing my ...
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Goodbye Alice

by Sonney Wolfe in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
May 30, 2025June 28, 2025
When I sat down with the salesman, my eyes landed on a bobblehead Spider-Man sitting next to his computer monitor. I’d spent the last hour cleaning out Alice, crying, making fun of myself for crying while sending videos to my ...
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Decisions, decisions…

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
May 22, 2025
...decisions. I got entirely too used to Bret making most of the decisions for us, or at least very heavily weighing in when I had decisions to make for myself. It was no secret that he called all the shots. ...
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Beyond Tired

by Dorothy Swanson in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health
May 19, 2025May 19, 2025
    There is no proper term to do justice to the type of tiredness involved in being a grieving, solo Mama. We are overworked, never paid, tapped out, burnt out and worn out. Fatigued and sometimes jaded. Filled with ...
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