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Jonathan, you Goonie!

by Cassie Dockter-Reeves in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
July 26, 2025July 26, 2025
Today is our 4th wedding anniversary. I should be waking up today to your snores. I should be reaching over and kissing you on the cheek like I did when you were sleeping and you had no idea. I should ...
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Dear Bret: An Open Letter

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
July 23, 2025
Dear Bret, It's been a while since I wrote you a letter, and after I made the suggestion for other widows to write letters to their late partners, I decided to do the same. You've been gone now for over ...
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A Brand New Life

by Dorothy Swanson in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
July 19, 2025
So far in this journey of grief, I haven’t yet come to the point where I can honestly say I am living a new life. I had the 10 best years of my life with my sweetheart, followed by almost ...
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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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Celebrating the wins-even the small ones.

by Dorothy Swanson in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
March 31, 2025May 19, 2025
I recently read a definition of widow-mom: A woman left alone due to the death of her husband, left to raise a child or children without their father. I know this is truth because it is my life, but it ...
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a woman sits pondering on a dock at dusk. word above her read 'new year, new goals'

Putting myself first in my widowhood journey

by Cindy Schriver in Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
February 15, 2025
I love when a new year begins, it’s a time to spend time taking stock of yourself and the things that need to change. This year, my New Year resolution was to concentrate on self-care. Self-care is a word that ...
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I didn’t want to change.

by Dorothy Swanson in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
February 6, 2025February 26, 2025
I didn’t want to change. I liked my life as it was. A work of architecture of the heart. Carefully built love and relationships, forged together into a thing of beauty. Until the tidal wave came. It really doesn’t matter ...
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Griefy Day

by Cassie Dockter-Reeves in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
January 13, 2025
Today has been a very griefy day. I felt very alone as a parent. My son’s babysitter is sick and I asked the only other options I had if they could watch him and they couldn’t, so I had to ...
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First Christmas Without You

by Cassie Dockter-Reeves in Grief, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
December 29, 2024
Christmas came and went. It was just another day on the calendar of this never ending year. I’m relieved it’s over. I don’t believe this loss will ever get easier. But I do think some days will be harder, and ...
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Finding Magic In The Holidays After Loss

by Cindy Schriver in Grief, Hope and Healing, Mental Health, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
December 2, 2024December 5, 2024
Since my husband died, the so-called “magic” of Christmas has been absent from my life. It is hard to create new traditions for your family while remembering the ones not there. When my husband passed away; my kids were 10, ...
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