Grief affects in so many ways, it shakes your self confidence to the core. I find that I get scared about the future, of loneliness, of never feeling happy again. I find that social situations scare me, I don’t want to be around people that I don’t know.
I wonder why someone who used to be […]
Failure is an emotive word and one thing that has been difficult to overcome - that feeling that I have failed in some way. Grief left me thinking that no matter what I did then I would fail, that it would be better to shy away from life then to go out and fail again.
It […]
Guilt is destructive to our minds. Guilt is something that can erode our self confidence and our ability to live a normal happy life. I understand how guilt occurs with widows and widowers through regret, mistakes…however we need to understand what is causing the guilt and then work on the underlying reasons.
G =Give yourself an […]
Possibly one of the most famous widows is Yoko Ono, who was married to John Lennon. She is 74 now and is just launching a new album - at 74! Speaking on metromix.com she says
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Although she hasn’t released an album of all-new material in more than a decade, she’s stayed current with remix records […]
Tifanny has posted her memorial here if people would like to see the man that was most precious to her.
She reminds me that moving on is not forgetting, it is living forward not in the past. You will never lose the stories but you cannot bring him back. That is the acceptance part. Once you […]
We know that when we suffer loss we go through a grief cycle - Anger, Denial, Rejection, Acceptance and Integration. I can understand the process and also knowing that has helped me come to terms with the grief.
I was trying to think of what binds the cycle and I feel that talking is the key. […]
If you think about a heart, it needs blood flowing in and flowing out - it is a pump that protects your life. My aunt said to me the other day talked to me about how helps her heart.
She said “Your heart needs lifeblood flowing in….and I think that you can help this by exercise, […]
I have found since my loss that I have wanted to go out less, socialise…it all seems a waste of time or not what I want to do. The problem is that the more you are by yourself, the more you want to be and the less you interact with people. Tonight my best friend […]
At the start of January I resolved that I wanted to lose the weight that I had put on and regain control in my life. A fellow blogger who I had never met decided to join me and we are posting about our journey at Middle Age Shed. Up to now I have lost 14lbs […]
Learning how to redefine yourself and rediscover life
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