“A mermaid is not frightened by her own duality. She is a walking contradiction of piety and lust, sobriety and ecstasy, brilliance and stubbornness, the sacred and the scandalous...so dance with your own inner paradox.” Margot Datz, A Survival Guide for Landlocked … [Read more...] about The Duality of Widowhood
Coping with Grief
Top 5 Widow Lessons Learned: Year 3
Language alert! Sorry, Mom. A Keeping It Real Post Today marks three years since Dan died. Holy fuck, dudes! It feels like an eternity has passed (haha) since that awful morning where I watched him take his last breath. Today I sit here, back in England, where … [Read more...] about Top 5 Widow Lessons Learned: Year 3
Grief Counseling and the Bereaved (aka Why I Keep my GC on speed dial)
A Coping With Grief Post As I was preparing to leave town for another trek across Europe, I got my usual frenzy of appointments on the calendar for my last week. One of those was with my grief counselor. A friend of mine was surprised and asked why I was still seeing her. … [Read more...] about Grief Counseling and the Bereaved (aka Why I Keep my GC on speed dial)
Leap Year (What Gardening Taught Me About Grief Recovery)
A Coping With Grief Post Back when I still had the house that LOVE built, I had an amazing garden. That's not me Garden Goddess bragging. Strangers used to pull over and take photos of my flower beds. If they could have seen my organic raised vegetable beds in the back, … [Read more...] about Leap Year (What Gardening Taught Me About Grief Recovery)
Brain Fog is a Blessing (Widow Brain is a Good Thing)
A Friends and Family Post I was recently visiting with my friend about his mom. Their family was in the terrible-no-good-very-bad-place where they knew they were going to lose their dad. It was imminent. I remember the pain of that time period all too well: not sleeping, … [Read more...] about Brain Fog is a Blessing (Widow Brain is a Good Thing)
What John Wick Teaches Us About Bereavement
**Spoiler Alert! If you haven't seen Parabellum yet, bookmark and come back to this later.** A Keeping It Real Post I just watched John Wick: Chapter 3 -Parabellum, which I've re-subtitled Revenge of the Dogs, with my favorite movie date. (For those of you that are new … [Read more...] about What John Wick Teaches Us About Bereavement