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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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Knowing what you know now….

by DonnaElliott in Grief, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
July 21, 2021July 21, 2021
“Knowing what you know now would you do it all over again?” The short answer is YES. The long answer is Hell YES. I would stop and ask a stranger for directions because that is how we met and he ...
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NATIONAL GRIEF AWARENESS DAY: How we can help each other

by Susan Leathers in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
August 27, 2020August 29, 2020
National Grief Awareness Day reminds us that each of us who has experienced life-changing loss grieves in valid, non-linear, and unique ways. National Grief Awareness Day serves to bring awareness to a world that often prefers to push away uncomfortable ...
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Nothing is the same anymore again

by Susan Leathers in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
March 28, 2020June 19, 2020
I wrote drafts for this blog at the end of February and beginning of March, but nothing I wrote then is relevant now. The world has changed completely. I am on high alert.  I am supposed to be telecommuting, teaching ...
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National Grief Awareness Day: A 3-year journey with grief

by Cecilia Mannella in Grief, Hope and Healing
August 28, 2019June 19, 2020
I married the love of my life in 2015 and believed my life to be complete finally. I had a fantastic career, found a man who loved me wholly, and we were just a perfect fit. Eleven months later, I ...
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Death Anniversaries

by Cecilia Mannella in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing
May 30, 2019June 19, 2020
As I approach my 3 year anniversary of being a widow, I can't help but really reflect on what this all has meant. There are a ton of anniversaries throughout the year from the first date, proposal, the day we ...
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Grief has made me a liar

by Cecilia Mannella in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope and Healing
February 18, 2019June 19, 2020
Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m not a good liar. I get all flushed and red in the face, I can’t make eye contact and inevitably I stumble over my own words in trying to make up a story ...
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Deep Loneliness

by Elizabeth Wooten in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
October 18, 2018June 19, 2020
There is a deep loneliness that encompasses my soul lately. It is similar to a shadow that follows you on a partly sunny day. It's always there. I'm keenly aware of the sunshine. But the longing for my husband and ...
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It’s Okay to Cry… Or Not

by Samantha White in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing
September 17, 2018
Not too long ago, I was trying to explain to a friend how I don’t cry anymore. I don’t shed tears. It’s like my eyes have run out of tears after the death of my husband. I explained to my ...
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