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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 […]

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June 17th, 2008

World’s Apart, World’s Together

Blogging and indeed having all your wonderful comments, really shows me that no matter what culture, how the grief has occurred - the feeling of loss is the same worldwide. Blogging has been a great comfort to me to know that I am not alone, that I am not daft because at times I haven’t […]

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June 11th, 2008

Finding Your Inner Courage

I feel that courage is something that we need to find during our grief process. Widows and widowers are faced with such a massive gap, massive changes to their lives. Courage is needed to face

Life without their partner
Dealing with the parts of life that you partner would have dealt with
Going out on your own
To believe […]

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February 12th, 2008

Are You Your Best Friend

As we journey through the grief process, I have come to the conclusion that part of the process is about the friendship with yourself. You need to work at the relationship with your inner self, here are my quick tips  

 Are you honest with yourself? Honest about your feelings, honest about the lost relationship (sometimes […]

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January 19th, 2008

Red Cross Offers Tips on Grief

I love the work that the Red Cross does all the way around the world. Today I saw this article on their   tips on handling grief which I hope may inspire you through your bereavement journey. Why I like this article is that it takes you through the emotions that you will feel and […]

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January 19th, 2008

The Effect of Friendship and Networking

I wanted to share a real positive aspect of this week. I attended a network event this week in Carmathenshire and met people such as Elizabeth from Bryngweny Farm, Jeanne from Fantastic Women, Sue from S&L Productions, Juliet Fay, Loraine from Kid Me Not, Sue Berry from Enabling   Work, Heather Gorringe from WigglyWigglers and […]

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