I nearly ruined Christmas by dreading the new year. It was not too long after my husband died and my heart was still broken and bleeding. Christmas was an ordeal even though my family squelched their pain to try to make a happy celebration.
In fact, we all worked hard the first Christmas without our strong, quiet leader for the sake of [...]
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Happy New Year???
I nearly ruined Christmas by dreading the new year. It was not too long after my husband died and my heart was still broken and bleeding. Christmas was an ordeal even though my family squelched their pain to try to make a happy celebration.
In fact, we all worked hard the first Christmas without our strong, quiet leader for the sake of [...]
Revisiting Stages of Grief
Revisiting Stages of Grief
Because these are so fluid I hesitate to mention them to you. A Christian psychiatrist, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, explored five stages years ago, and they are still true to a certain extent. The thing is we are all different, and while we will all go through most of these stages to a point, it is not regimented like th [...]
Out of Thankfulness, Time to Give-Bac...
Here I am, a happy, content woman, and now I want to show other widows how I traveled that terrible grief journey and become whole again. With God guiding my hand, I will share a travel plan for the journey that worked for me.
Each week I will offer a story of my trek so you may see my tiny, incremental progress. I compared my grief journey t [...]
