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I Just Want My Friend Back

by Cheryl Barnes in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
March 1, 2025March 2, 2025
    “I just want my friend back.” If anyone is familiar with the R&B artist MusiqSoulChild, you know exactly where the title of this piece comes from. MusiqSoulChild is an artist kind of low on the totem pole of ...
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What I Miss

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
March 24, 2024March 25, 2024
Life is normal now. I’m me, and I’m alone, and it’s okay. And then, suddenly, it’s not. When things are going well, I enjoy my life alone so much that I barely want to date. I have no desire to ...
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Coping with Grief Through Poetry – “Sister”

by Amanda Crane in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
January 11, 2024
Sister   I am not sure if we became like mothers when we lost ours, or if we always were.   Lost is an appropriate word because we are always searching for her. Maybe she’s hiding, and that’s why she’s ...
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Coping with Grief Through Poetry – “Lit”

by Amanda Crane in Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
December 11, 2023
Lit   I hold the memorial for you at our house. Three hundred people domino up and down the stairs and the hallways.   There is a white tent outside for overflow and a firepit that the kids throw soda ...
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Where was God?

by Diana Henderson in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
June 6, 2023June 6, 2023
It was May 6, 2022, the Friday before Mother’s Day, and I was very excited for the weekend. Monty had great plans; he always made every holiday special. I walked into the office and there were quite a few people ...
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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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Appreciating Life in a World Gone Mad

by Susan Kendal in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
February 28, 2022February 28, 2022
“If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.” – Regina Brett Can this quote possibly hold true for a widow? Initially we are not able to look beyond our own self after ...
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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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What lessons do you want to take into the New Year? 

by Susan Kendal in Coping Mechanisms, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
December 30, 2021
I had an opportunity recently to learn a valuable lesson I hope to remind myself again and again throughout the year. Setting the scene This past week I was locked out of my car in the late afternoon on a ...
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WE ARE LIKE LEAVES ON A WINTER’S DAY

by Susan Kendal in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
November 30, 2021
Grief arrives as does the harsh, unwelcomed winter. We resist the next season of our life Trying to hold on to the familiar & cherished. We cling to our tree of life as though we were a leaf perched to ...
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