Widows Quest

October 30th, 2007

A Smile A Day Takes The Loneliness Away

I often get asked “How do I feel better?”
Oh, I so wish that there was an easy answer and there isn’t…..but there is one thing that can make a big difference…..SMILE.
S= Smiling is wonderfully contagious…the more you smile, the more people smile at you…the more happier you feel.
M= Make sure that you smile at yourself […]

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September 9th, 2007

Carnival of Positive Thinking

It is Sunday and we are all facing a new week….so each Sunday I post a series of articles to help us achieve that positive mindset to overcome our depression, our grief.

Tristan presents Creating a Winning Mindset With Hypnosis posted at The Synergy Institute, saying, “In this article, internationally acclaimed Clinical Hypnotherapist, Steve G. Jones, […]

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November 9th, 2006

Regaining your positive outlook

I have used affirmations for a few years to help my lack of confidence. Affirmations are sentences - usually about 6-10, are sentences that you write down and read them every day. The sentences are a way of speaking back to that inner voice that is being negative!
Each sentence starts with “I”, and is written […]

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November 3rd, 2006

People soon forget your pain and grief

One reason that I am asking for entries for a Carnival on Sunday on how to turn your life around, is to highlight that as time goes by, the people around you may start to forget your pain. But that pain never goes away, it eases of course but the feeling of losing someone special NEVER […]

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November 3rd, 2006

Shopping was so hard

I don’t know if you found this, but I found food shopping the toughest. Walking through the shop, watching couples, looking at food that I would have previously bought and suddenly buying half the amount. Somehow, I suddenly felt the loneliest person in the world and felt that everybody was looking at me.
Then one day […]

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November 2nd, 2006

How to define friendship

I was speaking to someone today who had been disappointed by how people fall away after the initial mourning. She said a wonderful phrase that I thought I would share with you…
 ”People offer help, friends deliver it”
Friendship is a wonderful gift and the love of my friends will remain one of the key memories of […]

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November 2nd, 2006

Widows Quest Mission

I want to write mission for this blog - a summary of how I want people to act and feel when they read it.
The reason for the blog from my point of view is to show that there are people who understand your grief, your emotions. That there is someone who cares that you do […]

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November 2nd, 2006

Thank you!

Wow, yesterday I asked for your support with a blog carnival this Sunday to act as a way of turning my grief into a positive memory. You have all been fantastic, and I look forward to receiving all the links. Please pass on to anyone you know who may want to contribute - a carnival […]

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October 29th, 2006

What is a Widow’s Quest?

So here is the definition of a quest
Quest = “a long and difficult search”
I think that is a great summary of what we all go through. I don’t know about you but at the beginning I didn’t even know what I was searching for, or indeed if I wanted to search! This is my experience
I […]

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