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grief journey

Coping with “That Day”

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
August 13, 2023
Rick died six years ago today. Not always being a rational person, I decided the best way to handle this awful anniversary would be to sleep through today. That didn’t work. For one reason, my cat did not agree with ...
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Where Did Everyone Go?

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Relationships and Dating, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
May 9, 2023May 9, 2023
Not too long into my own widowhood journey, I noticed something that happens once the newness of our loss has worn off for everyone but us: many of my friends, most of my lovely, wonderful support group had all but ...
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National Widows Day: Who is a Widow?

by Meghan Abate in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
May 1, 2023May 2, 2023
It isn’t black veils over gray hair. It isn’t wrinkly hands clasped in front of them standing at the cemetery. It isn’t (always) a 90 year old staring out the window at gloomy clouds day after day. There is no ...
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Considerate Grief?

by Meghan Abate in Grief, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
April 17, 2023April 17, 2023
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 ...
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Year Two: Grief & Widowhood

by Meghan Abate in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
March 20, 2023
“Year two is harder than the first.” In the early days after losing my husband, Joe, I’d read how the second year of widowhood and grief is often harder than the first. 'Uhh, yea right,' I’d say to myself, usually ...
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My Self-Inflicted Wounds

by Dori Ann Dupre in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
March 6, 2023March 10, 2023
When my husband was alive, he would say that my constant sacrificing and never-saying-no personality were self-inflicted wounds. If I complained about how tired I was because I took on a task I didn’t really want to do – because ...
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Annie’s Song

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Widowhood Journey
February 26, 2023
I’m babysitting my two young grandsons for a four-day weekend while their folks are out of town. These two like all sorts of music. They may ask the Amazon Alexa to play Daft Punk, Justin Bieber, rap or hard rock, ...
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In The Background

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Relationships and Dating, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
January 19, 2023January 19, 2023
When someone we love leaves this mortal coil, people are quick to assure us that they are still with us. I honestly always believed that too, based on my own experiences with departed relatives. I have had so many lovely ...
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The Six Senses of Grief

by Dori Ann Dupre in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
January 4, 2023
The below creative nonfiction piece was recently published in Heartspace II: Real Life Stories on Loss and Renewal, an anthology collection edited by Cathy Brooks Edwards. This is second book in the Heartspace series and states that it is “an ...
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Widowhood Online

by Layla Beth Munk in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
December 10, 2022
I have written in-depth about social media. It has benefits and flaws just like everything else, but I have to admit that it was incredibly helpful in the early days of my grief. Initially, I didn't think that I would ...
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