The following is a blog post I wrote on Widowed Village back in 2013. Their website has recently been redesigned and it’s no longer available there. I thought I’d share it here. This is an issue I think many of us are struggling with as we slowly heal from our…
Happiness after loss. Is it possible? To be honest, during my first year of widowhood, and most of my second year, I was in such a dark place that happiness seemed to be gone forever. And even almost nine years later, I still have trouble sometimes just enjoying life the…
Lately it seems there is heartbreak and misery all around. Relatives and friends coping with life changing illnesses, deaths, cancer diagnoses, job loss, divorce, and the list goes on. The most recent horrific event, affecting someone very close to me, got me thinking about life with all its unpredictable twists…