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The Wandering Widow’s Top 10 European Cities

June 4, 2018 By Lisa Bain

A Wandering Widow Post You know how parents aren't supposed to have a favorite kid? That's how I feel everytime someone asks me to rank the places I've visited. I've loved them all for different reasons, and most of them have ended up on my "come back and visit again" … [Read more...] about The Wandering Widow’s Top 10 European Cities

Filed Under: Grief Recovery Project, Travel Tagged With: Amstelveen, Austria, Belfast, Bucharest, Bucket List, Coping, Edinburgh, Holland, Ireland, Isle of Skye, Itlay, Killarney, Live Now, Long-term travel, Montserrat, Northern Ireland, Oban, Romania, Scotland, Solo Travel, Spain, Survivor, Travel, Tuscany, Vienna, Wandering Widow

Adventure Part 19 – The Basque Country

February 7, 2018 By Lisa Bain

Pintxos-Donostia-San Sebastian-Basque-Spain

  “When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar. The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that the dead talk to the living.” John Connolly Have you ever visited … [Read more...] about Adventure Part 19 – The Basque Country

Filed Under: Grief Recovery Project, Travel, Widowhood Tagged With: Basque, Basque Country, Bilbao, Boise, Broken Open, Bucket List, Coping, Donostia, Familiar, Gernika, guggenheim, Healing, Jenny Holzer, Live Now, Long-term travel, Mehmet Muran Ildan, Museo Vasco, pintxos, Reckless Truth Teller, Richard Serra, San Sebastian, Solo Travel, Spain, Survivor, The Matter of Time, Travel, travel heals, Truisms, Unfamiliar, Wandering Widow

Kiss Me – What I Learned in Barcelona

February 5, 2018 By Lisa Bain

Big Picture

  The Sound of a Kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver Wendell Holmes Mosaics After this trip, mosaics will always be synonymous with Spain. They are everywhere from traditional Roman tile work to Gaudi's, well, … [Read more...] about Kiss Me – What I Learned in Barcelona

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Travel, Widowhood Tagged With: Barcelona, Big Picture, Broken Open, Coping, Grief, Grief Recovery, Joan Fontcuberta, Kinstugi, Kiss, Long-term travel, Mosaic, Reckless Truth Teller, Solo Travel, Spain, Survivor, Travel, Wandering Widow

Adventure Part 18 – Toledo and Salamanca, Spain

January 31, 2018 By Lisa Bain

Toledo Glow, Spain

  Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.” Janet Wallach Toledo and Salamanca are both ancient. When the sun is in just the right spot, these walled cities are surrounded by a golden glow, like two dowager Queens basking in the desert sun. I was … [Read more...] about Adventure Part 18 – Toledo and Salamanca, Spain

Filed Under: Grief Recovery Project, Travel, Widowhood Tagged With: Coping, Grief Recovery, Grief Recovery Project, Salamanca, Solo Travel, Spain, Survivor, Toledo, Travel, travel heals, Wandering Widow

Adventure Part 17 – Madrid, Spain

January 26, 2018 By Lisa Bain

Madrid Sunset

  Travel brings power and love back into your life. Rumi I've had a lot of people compare my travel year to Eat-Pray-Love. There are similarities, and since I love that book and Elizabeth Gilbert, I'm cool with the comparison. And after a month in Spain, I'm absolutely … [Read more...] about Adventure Part 17 – Madrid, Spain

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Grief Recovery Project, Travel, Widowhood Tagged With: Adventure Is Out There, Broken Open, Christmas, Coping, Grief Journey, Grief Recovery, Grief Recovery Project, Long-term travel, Madrid, Reckless Truth Teller, Solo Travel, Spain, Travel, travel heals, Wandering Widow, Widowhood

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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

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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.

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