• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

The Real Lisa Bain

The Wandering Widow

  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Email Sign UP
  • Buy Book
  • Grief Recovery Project
  • Friends & Family
  • Coping with Grief
  • Health
  • Travel
  • New Book: Heart Of A Kingdom
Home » Archives for Deathiversary

Deathiversary

My Re-Birth Day

July 15, 2020 By Lisa Bain

A Keeping It Real Post Last week, on D's deathiversary, I posted a photo on my social media and called it my Re-Birth Day. And while I don't feel the need to explain myself to the raised eyebrows, I want to. After D's first deathiversary, when I collapsed in a drunk, … [Read more...] about My Re-Birth Day

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Featured, Widowhood Tagged With: Bereavement, Broken Open, Coping, Deathiversary, Grief, Grief Journey, Grief Literacy, Grief Recovery, Grief Support, Healing, Life After Loss, Mental Health, Re-Birth Day, Reckless Truth Teller, Survivor, Wandering Widow, Widow Wednesday, Widowhood, Widows

Year Four: Widowhood Is Still Teaching Me to Live My Best Life

July 10, 2020 By Lisa Bain

A Keeping It Real Post Today marks four years since I began this unwilling journey called Widowhood. Four years? Really? It feels like both an eternity and a blink of an eye. And while things haven't turned out how I'd planned, it has been the best year ever. I'm getting … [Read more...] about Year Four: Widowhood Is Still Teaching Me to Live My Best Life

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Featured, Widowhood Tagged With: Bereavement, Best Life, Broken Open, Coping, Deathiversary, Grief, Grief Journey, grief milestones, Grief Recovery, Grieving, Healing, Mental Health, Reckless Truth Teller, Survivor, Widowhood, Widows

Somatic Memory and Deathiversaries

May 20, 2020 By Lisa Bain

On nights like this I wear that dress you like and slow dance with your memory ~Lisa Bain A Coping Post This week, two families who are dear to my heart, are dealing with the worst milestone a griever can face: that first deathiversary. As I was checking in to … [Read more...] about Somatic Memory and Deathiversaries

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Featured, Friends & Family, Grief Recovery Project, Widowhood Tagged With: AfterLoss, Bereavement, Broken Open, Coping, Deathiversary, Friends and Family, Grief, Grief Journey, grief milestones, Grief Recovery, Grief Support, Grieving, Healing, Lee Ormsby, Life After Loss, Mental Health, muscle memory, Oreos, Reckless Truth Teller, Ryan Wallace, somatic memory, Suicide, Suicide Prevention, Support, Survivor, The Opera Guy, Wandering Widow, widow, Widow Wednesday, Widowhood, Widows

Bros, Lows, and Fatherless Widows

December 3, 2019 By Lisa Bain

This post is dedicated to my Bros on both sides of the pond. You know who you are. I wouldn't dream of doing this life without you. XO, L A Coping With Grief Post November marked the fourth deathiversary since I said goodbye to my Daddy. In the time he's been gone, I've … [Read more...] about Bros, Lows, and Fatherless Widows

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Featured, Friends & Family, Widowhood Tagged With: Bereavement, Bros, Deathiversary, Fatherless Widows, Grief, Grief Journey, The Bro Code, Widowhood, Widows

Top 5 Widow Lessons Learned: Year 3

July 9, 2019 By Lisa Bain

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

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Grief Recovery Project, Widowhood Tagged With: cancer sucks, Coping, Deathiversary, Grief, Grief Journey, Grief Recovery, How Far I'll Go, Lessons Learned, Survivor, Top 5, widow, Widow Wednesday, Widowhood

How Has It Been Two Years Without Him?

July 10, 2018 By Lisa Bain

“Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smile will never wrinkle, nor will that shine in your eyes fade.” Kendal Rob A Wondering Widow Post It's almost impossible to believe two years have passed since I sat vigil, … [Read more...] about How Has It Been Two Years Without Him?

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Friends & Family, Grief Recovery Project, Widowhood Tagged With: 2 years, Broken Open, cancer sucks, Cole Swindell, Coping, Deathiversary, Grandma, Grief, Grief Journey, grief milestones, Grief Recovery, Kendal Rob, Milestone, Reckless Truth Teller, Survivor, Wandering Widow, Widowhood, You Should Be Here

Primary Sidebar

Heart Of A Kingdom Cover Lisa Bain

Heart of a Kingdom is a riveting tale of love, courage, loss, and survival set in the magical Kingdom of the Talking Tres, and the City of Belfast. Newly widowed Queen Libby must endure the devastating loss of her husband, do the … Read More about New Book: Heart Of A Kingdom

A Little About Me

Lisa Bain became a young widow in 2016 after losing her husband to cancer. She quickly learned we live in a grief phobic society, which isolates the grieving even further. With both humor and heartbreak, she shares her story and lessons she's learned to help those grieving remember they aren't alone, and to help their family and friends that just don't know what to do to help.

Lisa Bain: More about me

Looking for something?

Connect with me online

  • Email
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Sign up for The Real Lisa Bain

* = required field

Archives

Featured Post

One More Day

Holy Hannah. It's been a hot minute. How ya doin? Today I am officially one day older than D was when he died. I … Read More about One More Day

Footer

Recent Posts

  • Grief Muscle Memory Runs Deep
  • Steep Ascents Require More Switchbacks
  • The Winds of Change: Introducing Project Dandelion
  • One More Day
  • Grief and New Year’s Purging

Connect With Me

  • Email
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter

SEARCH

Copyright © 2023 · TheRealLisaBain.com Privacy Policy