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How to Navigate Widowed Solo-parenting: A Guide for Widowed Mothers
When you lose your spouse, your whole world shifts. If you’re also raising children, the loss can feel even heavier. Suddenly, you’re not onl...
Oct 21, 2025 |
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What to Say to a Widow: How to Support a Widowed Friend
When someone you love loses their spouse, it can be hard to know what to do—or even what to say. When their loved one dies, the emotional impac...
Oct 1, 2025 |
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Helping Your Child Cope with the Loss of a Parent as the Surviving Parent
Losing a spouse is devastating, but watching your child grieve their other parent is a heartbreak all its own. As the surviving parent, you're le...
Sep 9, 2025 |
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Widows Can Have Fun Too: Surviving Widow Grief & Guilt
Grief doesn’t follow a straight line. One day you’re surviving hour by hour. The next, you laugh at something unexpected—and then feel a wa...
Sep 4, 2025 |
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Rush: Learning to Live in the Now
As children we are always in a rush to grow up. A rush for summer break, that first boyfriend/girlfriend, maybe that first kiss, driver's license...
Apr 21, 2025 |
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Growing With Grief
I recently came across this really thoughtful model regarding grief. It’s called “Growing around Grief” and was created by grief counselor Lois Tonkin. Basically, the model...
Mar 11, 2025 |
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The Empty Seat
Birthdays, anniversaries, lost teeth, proms, holidays, first day of school, choir concerts, basketball games, so many achievements and accomplishments both big and small. Feelin...
Feb 17, 2025 |
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Dating After Loss: A Guide for Widows
The journey of considering dating after the loss of a spouse is a uniquely complex one. Grief, memories, and love for a partner who has passed in...
Feb 11, 2025 |
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Clearing the Fog: Understanding and Managing “Widow’s Brain”
Grieving the loss of a spouse is one of the most profound and challenging experiences one can face. Alongside the emotional turmoil, many widows and widowers report experiencing...
May 29, 2024 |
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