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dangerous grief triggers ahead

Danger! Grief Triggers Ahead

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief
May 1, 2018June 19, 2020
I just ate a Slim Jim and started to cry. How can eating a dried meat stick bring back painful memories? How do the most innocuous acts trigger grief and pain and sadness? Is there anything that won’t remind me ...
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This wasn’t on the schedule today, Grief

by Julia Steier in Grief
April 23, 2018June 19, 2020
When you finally have your schedule and routines back, grief pops up at the damnedest times. Sort of like accidentally scratching a scab you know will now become a scar. There seems to be that one day when you can ...
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Lifeboat

by Lindsey Wilbur in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
April 11, 2018June 19, 2020
  Year two, I'm swimming along and then it hit. A tsunami of grief and I began to drown. Fear was hovering around me like a vulture waiting for its prey to die. Thoughts began filtering in and out of ...
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No Rules

by Kimberly Nicole Johnson in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
March 28, 2018June 19, 2020
NO RULES I stayed with my sister and brother Stace & Beng house last night I have a hard time sleeping at home alone especially these past months. Devan came in a dream to Sandi back in October 2017 and ...
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Kale Soup

Kale Soup for the Grieving Soul

by Julia Steier in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing
February 28, 2018February 28, 2018
Growing up, when my mother would start baking my siblings and I would get so excited. The sweetness of fresh baked cookies swirling throughout the halls of the house, and dancing into our nostrils and pulling us to the kitchen. ...
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Where is my one year coin?

by Danielle Thompson in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
February 26, 2018
It has been one year since Jerry died. 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days. It feels like it just happened, yet feels like forever since I last saw him, held him, kissed him. I want to share my knowledge of ...
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Happier widow five years later

Widowhood: When You Don’t Feel like Yourself

by Debbie Weiss in Grief, Hope and Healing
February 22, 2018February 22, 2018
After my husband George died in 2013, I turned to the internet. There were fit widows, super parent widows, fund-raising widows and grateful widows. I did not find any widows like me who were drowning themselves in Manhattans, Mad Men and ...
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And the story continues…..

by Lindsey Wilbur in Hope and Healing
February 5, 2018February 5, 2018
They were right. The second year of grief is worse. No longer in shock, no longer drowning in tears. I’m no longer numb to my new reality. The hurt runs deeper, it cuts more. I’ll have flashbacks of the first ...
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widow diet

Counteracting the Widow Diet

by Julia Steier in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing
January 17, 2018June 19, 2020
I’m going to jump straight in on the Widow Diet. We discuss the importance of self-care, but nutrition is a vital and important component of the big picture. We've heard the buzz words of macronutrients: Carbohydrates, Protein, Fats, and Alcohol. ...
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Christmas citrus

by Jessica Trobaugh in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing
January 6, 2018June 19, 2020
Cam was the one who taught me how to peel oranges. I remember spending an entire weekend at his Dad’s doing nothing but having orange peel offs. Our hands smelled of citrus for weeks. Honestly he always had a slight ...
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