Tag: surviving widowhood
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Allow Form to Follow Function
I know that in our life after loss things are chaotic! The days can be overly busy OR strangely empty and lacking. Incorporating intentionality into the planning of your day will allow the form to follow the function, and you will end up with a masterpiece, not a train wreck!
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The Different Styles of Grieving
It is my wish that you read this today and feel a sigh of relief. There is no wrong or right way to grieve. There is just the messy process, and a light at the end of the tunnel if you keep taking the baby steps forward.
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What Can You Do While Feeling Frozen
The feeling of frozen can be a shelter from your pain, or you can leverage it to complete a difficult, but necessary, task. You get to chose. Either way, you’ve got this and I’m here to help.
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Invisible Buddies
Invisible buddies exist all around us. When you meet someone who has a quality you particularly admire, perhaps someone who is “widowing” in a way that you admire, watch them. Observe them. Take notice. Try on those qualities, as if they were a new hat.
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Learning To Take Care of Yourself
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how we can take of ourselves when life throws us a curveball and I believe its all about organizing the care and keeping of YOU.
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The Bitter and the Sweet
Use your pain to transform how you move through the world. Learn to live in grace and love while never forgetting the brokenness. It is because of the bitter that we can fully experience the sweet.
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Finding You In Your Future
Here’s the thing. Even though you feel like your future is over, it isn’t. If you have a pulse, you have a future. If you have a future, there is a future version of you waiting for you and cheering you on.
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Learning To See the Gift of Grace
I have come to the end of myself. I have given up dreams of my past and future. In sitting on the ledge, I became aware of the possibility of a new life, a new life in which I served and nourished others.
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The View From Five Years Out
The sun really does rise and set each day, and with that passage of time our loss becomes more manageable.
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Surviving the Storms Of Life
While it’s so hard to remember, the storms in your life will pass, and above that angry storm are beautiful blue skies!
