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Grief TV Watchlist

by Susan Leathers in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
March 14, 2021March 15, 2021
Watching TV can be a minefield for widows. I noticed this soon after I lost my husband; we were in the last season of The Sopranos. I could never make myself finish it after his death. But, I kept thinking ...
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Sisterhood

by Celi Olson in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Mental Health, Widowhood Journey
March 2, 2021
  The first widow I reached out to after my husband died had lost her husband about 3 years prior.  She was so honest and open on social media with where she was at during her whole journey. I remember ...
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To Heal, You Must Remember

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
January 21, 2021January 21, 2021
I was sitting alone in my car near a lake in the park when I heard some powerful words about grief and healing. Every afternoon when I get off work, I leave my home office and drive to this semi-secluded ...
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peace instead of pain

Peace Instead of Pain

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Hope and Healing, Widowhood Journey
December 5, 2020December 6, 2020
I’m not sure if every widow does this, but I tend to gravitate towards watching any TV show or movie where the main character is a widow. It’s always interesting to me to see how the plot treats widowhood. Is ...
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Advice from a Seasoned Widow

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Widowhood Journey
October 1, 2020October 2, 2020
Everyone experiences the loss of a loved one, and the losses compound as we age. In my 63-year span on earth, I’ve lost my father and mother, and all my grandparents, aunts, and uncles. The entire older generation is gone ...
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National Grief Awareness Day

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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The Many Rooms of Grief

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing
July 17, 2020
It’s Friday and I’m sitting on my deck in my sunny backyard making a grocery shopping list. The Shipt shopper will take care of the shopping that Rick used to do as his most favorite task in the world (man, ...
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When the emotional airbag deploys

by Susan Leathers in Coping Mechanisms, Grief
May 25, 2020June 19, 2020
A previous blog described how one of my former students gifted me with a selection of her homemade jams. What I left out of the story was my initial reaction to the package:  I couldn’t open it. I had looked ...
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America, the Grieving

by Susan Leathers in Grief, Hope for Widows Foundation, Mental Health
April 29, 2020June 19, 2020
As I write this, more than 57,000 Americans have died from Covid-19, and the number of Americans grieving for each other grows exponentially. In a country that compartmentalizes death to funeral homes and then largely ignores the entire topic, the ...
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Breathe, just breathe.

by Therese Marchitelli in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope for Widows Foundation
April 15, 2020June 19, 2020
I was really good at that - breathe, be, let go, space. What I wasn’t good at was engaging with the “dust” before it settled or getting sucked into reaction. There’s a lot that’s transpired in science, medicine, technology. psychology, ...
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