I was listening to an album from The Feeling which inspired me to think about loneliness. As a widow you can feel incredibly lonely….however when you think about it lonely is a fact not an emotion ?
You are alone….so lonely is not an “if or a but” it is a fact…you are now alone with […]
Death causes you to think back into history. Today I was thinking of when I was a child and Dad taught me 2 key thoughts to help me in my various sporting challenges
Don’t fear winning, don’t fear losing…just enjoy the moment. When you enjoy it, you become better.
Win well. Lose well. There is nothing wrong […]
I wrote a post called Finding Your Strengths for a New Life and received a heart tugging comment from a recent widow here is a snippet
“I really do miss my dearest husband and I instantly start to cry when I look at our pictures. This has not been happening lately, but today I feel down […]
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 […]
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 […]
I saw this inspirational quote on a card today and thought it was so apt for widows and widowers
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly”
Maybe that will inspire you today to know that as hard as grief is, one day we will learn to love, learn to be happy […]
If you need inspiration to beat that feeling of depression then here is some recent research to help move you through the grief cycle. You all know that I believe we as widows or widowers need to go through the grief cycle but often it can be easy to become stuck..just not believing that […]
Pictures in our mind our so important and I have written often on the subject. There is a wonderful quote from Arthur C Clarke that says
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
As widows or widowers, we can forget about what is possible and […]
My friend lost her husband just over a year ago, and has had significant problems with one of her children. She was been very withdraw from her set of friends, so I was interested to see on the Daily Gazette this a grief statistic that said
“Statistics show that one children in every seven will experience […]
When you are left alone after the death of a loved one, you feel alone…so alone. You feel weakened in some way as though you just cannot live without them. Of course this is wrong but it is feels like the truth.
The truth is that we have the power inside of us to not only […]
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