Tag: Navigating Widowhood
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Find Your Big Why To Get Organized
Finding your big why will ground and connect you. It can be your North Star as you carefully sort through your loved ones possessions. You can do this!
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Staying Safe When Online Dating
Part of online dating is knowing how to be smart and stay safe with both your body and mind.
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Widows Fog
Who among us has not felt widows fog? Who among us has not felt lost and disoriented with the realities of our new life after loss? In the San Joaquin Valley of California, the fog is famous in a bad way, and while I don’t want to drive in it if at all possible, I
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Goodbye 2021
Goodbye 2021. You were difficult, but also awe inspiring. This was the year I learned to take my lessons from grief and share them with those who are hurting. I want to thank each of YOU for an amazing year: a year of connecting with you individually and as a community. I’ve been so honored
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The Greatest Love Story Yet To Be Told
This is part two of a recent teaching by Teresa Beshwate, The Sudden Widow Coach. The first post was, “Permission To Live.” If you need to, read it quickly, and then come back. When you grant yourself permission to live, it doesn’t diminish the love you had for your previous life with your spouse. In
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Permission to Live
Do you need permission to live? This article based on the teachings of Teresa Beshwate, The Sudden Widow Coach, and it will blow your mind! Have you felt it? Have you felt that ten seconds of joy and laughter, perhaps with friends when you laugh so hard your tummy hurts? And then, like a slap
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The Story of You
“We’re all destined to live through three to five life-altering transitions in our lifetime (life quakes). They will drain the meaning from your existence, drying up the life story of how you used to define yourself.” Bruce Feiler, Life Is In the Transitions Your life is like a novel, a masterpiece written over the course
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How Do You Recharge?
How do you recharge? The holiday season is almost upon you, and it can be an especially challenging time. In addition to the stressors of regular life you may also have to tackle triggers, sadness, broken in-law relationships, and children who are grieving, but may manifest that grief as anger, anxiety, or stubbornness. Self care
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Who Am I Now?
A huge part of the grieving process is answering the question who am I now? When your spouse was alive, you experienced life in a linear fashion, with clear titles and beliefs about who you were. You had the beloved title of wife or husband. After my husband died I lost my favorite title of
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