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Widows Quest

June 19th, 2008

Don’t Fear the Feelings, Embrace Them

Grief causes all kind of emotional stress and all sorts of different emotions to flow through your body - anger, sadness, depression, crying, apathy, numbness, loneliness….
I asked yesterday to Let’s Support a Military Widow who is struggling with her emotions. A oouple of comments made me think

Feelings are what separates us from machine. Feelings make […]

By anna -- 2 comments

May 23rd, 2008

How We Can Feel Better Through Our Body Language

When  we are depressed, when we are lonely this affects our emotions. If you catch a glimpse of yourself in a mirror you can see you round shoulders, you may be slumping or looking down. Our body language will represent our feelings.
The opposite is true. So if we think about that then we can help […]

By anna -- 1 comment

May 18th, 2008

Carnival of Positive Thinking

Here we are at the start of a new week and as always we take a look at articles that will help us overcome our grief and depression.

Metaliphe presents Sad or Depressed? posted at Chandra Unplugged - No nonsense, Straight-up blogging from a Life Coach, saying, “Are you really depressed or are you just sad? […]

By anna -- 3 comments

May 11th, 2008

Carnival of Positive Thinking

Each Sunday I post articles that will help us through our grief process and help us find a happiness that we may not feel at the moment is possible. Here are this weeks articles

Matthew Spears presents The flame of blame posted at Loving Awareness, saying, “By assigning responsibility to anyone or anything for a given […]

By anna -- 5 comments

May 4th, 2008

Carnival of Positive Thinking

After not feeling too well this week, I am definitely in the mood for articles that will help me get back on track with my life. So here is this weeks blog carnival on positive thinking

Dr. Neill Neill presents Facing a Possible Death in the Family: Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster Ride and Making Room […]

By anna -- 2 comments

April 21st, 2008

Tips for Reader on Fighting the Grief

Coping with grief is hard as we all know. Over the weekend I got a comment from Shine on Do you ever feel tired of fighting grief, so I wanted to try and reach out this fellow widow. Here are some thoughts from me but I would love your thoughts to help this blog reader […]

By anna -- 0 comments

March 15th, 2008

Depressed? Then Take One Step at a Time

I love this poem that I was give a few years ago by Bruce Wilmer, which I keep for the days that in my grief depression takes over
It’s true that sometimes life is full
Of trying circumstances.
And sometimes we must struggle
For just minimal advances.
Despite events that slow us down
And magnify our worries.
We must learn that progress […]

By anna -- 0 comments

March 10th, 2008

Answer to Depressing Thoughts…Friends

What a tough weekend, I feel as though I have been on a rollercoaster of emotion. Though not that many ups..just twists and downs really :)
One thing that I have had to learn is that when those feelings hit you  - and almost surprise you  - then you need to reach out for help. It […]

By anna -- 2 comments