Why do so many say that the second year of grief is worse than the first? Is it the fact that in the first year, you imagine that by the end of that year some sort of former happiness ...
It was about a month ago when I had the meltdown. I was struggling to remember the Celebration of Life we had for Douglas. Who was there, what was said, how did it all look? I kept telling myself, Why ...
How do I cope with the raw pain of my grief? 18 things that have helped me survive. The other half of my heart and soul “graduated to heaven” about 18 months ago. It is so hard to believe 1 ...
We organize and bring order to our lives with time and seasons. We use clocks and calendars, weights and measures, and history and future to mark the places, experiences and events of our journey to make it possible to relate ...
I am a firm believer in signs. Angels, messages, and even visits from the departed - I believe in it all. I have touched on these little signs and visits in other blogs, but when it happens again, I feel ...
Sometimes on this exhausting journey through grief I find I don’t “widow well.” In those messy moments I can’t help but think about the many things about the word “Widow” that I wish didn’t come with the territory. Being a ...
I’ve always been a scaredy-cat when it comes to just about everything. Swimming. Getting my ears pierced. Dogs. Smoking weed. Public speaking. Dancing in front of people. Getting a tattoo. And on and on. But when I experienced the worst ...
Within the first few months after my husband died, I very quickly learned that grief can be a lot of things: anguish, pain, anger, love, numbness. I mean, there are five stages after all. One word I haven’t heard when ...
On Friday I Said sorry for your loss to someone and felt terrible about it. It was a customer, not someone I knew, and it took me longer than it should have to utter the words. He said so casually ...