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National Grief Awareness Day: Grief is a Complex Son of a B*tch

by Lisa Kumagai in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Solo Parenting
August 30, 2021August 27, 2021
Several years ago I learned about International Widow's Day (June 23rd), a day set aside to recognize the hardships that widows face from loss, that fell one day after National Onion Rings Day. Even after becoming a widow in December ...
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National Grief Awareness Day – Lessons for the Uninitiated

by Susan Kendal in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health
August 28, 2021August 27, 2021
Psssst, would you like to know a secret??? Grief is NORMAL!!! So let’s congratulate United States for creating a National Grief Awareness Day. Its purpose is to raise awareness about grief by providing resources to those going thru it and ...
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Weeping Willows -Widow Strong

by Laurel Snook in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
August 22, 2021
Last year I got a weeping willow tattoo on my leg. It is a half-dead half-alive tree. The irony in getting that in 2020 then losing my husband is not lost on me. But the reason I got that tattoo ...
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Forgiving Yourself Takes Time

by Laurel Snook in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
August 15, 2021
I was having a hard time figuring out what to write about this week. There is so much I want to share with my fellow widows. I started writing a different post, but it felt like this post should come ...
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by Piper Rose in Grief, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
August 10, 2021
This month I turn 33.  An age my husband never got to be.  He crossed over the month before his 33rd birthday.  I don’t want to turn 33.  I don’t even want to be 32.  What I actually want is ...
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Keep moving forward

Moving On Vs. Moving Forward: What’s the difference?

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
August 10, 2021August 10, 2021
Perhaps one of the most well known terms to a widowed person is “moving on.” And as well intentioned as it usually is, it is one that we may invariably start strongly disliking. I know for me, the whole “when ...
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Pass the Pen to Your Other Hand…

by Lisa Kumagai in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
August 8, 2021August 8, 2021
I met him when I was 26 years old and we married at 28. By 42, I was a suicide widow and single mom to two children. Post-loss, I found healing in somatic and family therapy, yoga, meditation and other ...
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Helpful Books

by Angie Bell in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
August 6, 2021August 6, 2021
In the months following my husband’s death I began actively seeking books to read to give me comfort, empathy, and advice. Some were very helpful, some so-so, some too full of platitudes, and some, though not fantastic, contained some great ...
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Gratitude and Grief: that weird emotion in mourning and grief nobody talks about

by DonnaElliott in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
August 4, 2021August 3, 2021
Emotions have always been difficult for me, I would be the first one to admit it. I can tell you how I should be feeling in a way that made sense by a textbook definition and I would usually leave ...
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Please Be Patient With Me

by Lisa Kumagai in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
July 23, 2021July 23, 2021
As I was making a left turn behind an unusually slow moving car, I gripped my steering wheel agitatedly and blurted out, "Why are you driving so slow?! You're stopping the flow of traffic. UGH!"  And then I saw it. ...
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