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Widows Quest

May 17th, 2007

Another quick tip to cope with depression

……I was feeling loney, I was feeling lost. A few days ago I started to fill the house with music, upbeat music. I have it on to clean the house, work, cooking, even getting ready for bed. The music fills that space that there used to be a voice and helps me focus on the […]

By anna -- 3 comments

May 17th, 2007

3 Things that I want to Celebrate

After having a bad couple of weeks, last week I really tried hard to be positive. I am proud to say that over the last 10 days I have worked hard and feeling much more positive. The reason I am blogging about this, is part of celebrating my improvement - we often forget to say […]

By anna -- 0 comments

May 15th, 2007

6 Steps to Fight Depression

I found a site called undoingdepression which has these 6 steps that I thought I would share, I don’t know about you but the more I read the more it inspires me to succeed!
• Get help. Don’t be ashamed of needing medication, and don’t give up […]

By anna -- 4 comments

May 11th, 2007

Grief is Universal

When you face a crisis in your life, often you think that you are alone. The comments to 5 Reasons I want to Live show that grief is something we all face, grief is universal. Often we can feel alone or feel like the only person in the world that is hurting.  Yet the comments […]

By anna -- 0 comments

May 9th, 2007

Widow’s Quest Challenge

Negative thinking really grabbed hold of me last week, so I have set myself a challenge this week. For the next 24 hours I am   not going to say anything negative, no put downs, no I can’t, nothing. Everything that I say or do is going to be positive as a way of both […]

By anna -- 0 comments

May 8th, 2007

Support groups

I saw an article at the Daily Times which talks about the difficulty of not just losing your partner how losing a loved one is life-altering. When one loses a spouse, it can seem like losing several people at once: a best friend, a lover, a trusted confidant. I think that was a huge reason […]

By anna -- 3 comments

May 8th, 2007

Bouncebackability!

This week I am feeling so much better this week. Last week was such a hard week, I could not see anything positive in my   life, I felt so low. Well, today I treated myself to a little lie in and then got up and decided that your mindset is up to you. I […]

By anna -- 3 comments

May 4th, 2007

Looking forward to the weekend

This week has been one of my tough ones, hard to speak to people, hard to even be motivated to do “everyday living”. For me it has been personally a real effort to get through, but I have and I am proud of that! I am going to the seaside this weekend as it is […]

By anna -- 0 comments

May 1st, 2007

Grief can damage your health

I was reading an article on the BBC website about research into survival rates of bereaved people. Here is a snippet
“Writing in the journal, the researchers led by Dr Carole Heart, said: “We have shown that bereavement does have an impact on mortality risk, in addition to that of individual risk factors - which had […]

By anna -- 0 comments

May 1st, 2007

I am worrying about my mum

This weekend saw another death in my extended family and this week sees mum going to the doctors for her heart condition. With losing dad over 3 years ago, it scares me that I may lose mum. When you have faced grief so vividly, you know what it feels like to lose someone. You know […]

By anna -- 3 comments