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When Life Was Normal

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
December 11, 2022December 11, 2022
Oh how those Facebook memories love to pop up when my life is moving along almost as if things are normal and nothing has changed. Haven’t I always lived alone here in my ranch home? Wasn’t my daily routine always ...
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grief journey

The Pink Pool Noodle

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Widowhood Journey
October 15, 2022
The fuchsia-pink pool noodle Rick bought me is starting to decompose around the edges. The memories of that last vacation we shared are starting to fade around the edges, too. How can a pool noodle come to mean so much ...
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Love Is All – Sadly Erasing Him From My Life

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Widowhood Journey
April 9, 2022
I attended a writers’ conference two weeks ago. I’m still working (reworking) my plans for life without Rick after retirement. We had big plans for our golden years, well laid-out plans. We started our web design business in 2001 with ...
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Relinquishing the Dead

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
January 15, 2022January 16, 2022
Author Joan Didion died in December. I’ve always enjoyed her writing, but I owe her a special debt of gratitude for her memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. In it, she described the grief and pain following the death of ...
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What if it had been me?

by Dori Ann Dupre in Grief, Health and Wellness, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
January 2, 2022
Do you ever wonder if…instead of him…it had been you? Instead…I was the one with the out-of-nowhere terminal diagnosis and the slow, painful progression toward my early death in my 40s with so much I wanted to do and see ...
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A Guide to the Holiday Season – Widow Edition

by Piper Rose in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
December 13, 2021
I feel as though every widow who writes about this time of year writes about the gut punch that is the holiday season without their beloved, and while that’s a deep and visceral truth that I too experience, I thought ...
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Remembered Moments

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Relationships and Dating, Widowhood Journey
October 12, 2021October 13, 2021
I went on a date last Saturday night...it was my first date with a new man I met in an online dating app. After two years of first dates, the only thing I know for sure is that you never ...
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Family and Grief

by Guest Blogger in Grief, Solo Parenting, Widowhood Journey
September 19, 2021
It can be very hard to navigate the waters of the family when grief is involved. It is hard enough when the person missing from your family functions is a cousin, aunt, parent, or any other loved one. The reality ...
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Reminder to Self – You’re Still Here

by Piper Rose in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
May 18, 2021
When my husband passed suddenly at the age of 32, I was quite pregnant with our second child and was a stay at home mother to our then 18 month old.  Despite being an intelligent and capable 31 year old ...
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Fifty Things – Thoughts from a Grief Survivor

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing
March 27, 2021March 28, 2021
Every morning I read a list of fifty things I have to be thankful for. I started doing this a few months ago; it was something my grief therapist suggested to help me get through the uncertainty and loneliness of ...
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