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Social Distancing and Widowhood (Do The Right Thing)

March 15, 2020 By Lisa Bain

A Keeping It Real Post Y'all know I'm a bit of a travel addict. Social distancing has given me cabin fever, but I've chosen to help flatten the curve, and all my travel plans are on hold for now. Over the last three months, I've engaged in conversations about travel and … [Read more...] about Social Distancing and Widowhood (Do The Right Thing)

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Featured, Travel, Widowhood Tagged With: Bereavement, Broken Open, COVID-19, COVIDKindness, Grief, Grief Journey, Grieving, Life After Loss, Reckless Truth Teller, Reckless Truth Telling, social distancing, Survivor, Travel, travel heals, Wandering Widow, widow, Widowhood

Home Is Where The Heart Is

March 28, 2018 By Lisa Bain

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A Friends and Family Post sometimes you'll feel lost or that you don't know where you are going. be thankful for that. because that means you still know what home feels like, and if you know what that feels like, you are never truly lost J.M. Storm Home Lost When I left … [Read more...] about Home Is Where The Heart Is

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Friends & Family, Grief Recovery Project, Travel, Widowhood Tagged With: Boise, Broken Open, Coping, Grief, Grief Journey, Grief Recovery, Grief Recovery Project, Home, Homecoming, Idaho, J.M. Storm, Live Now, Long-term travel, New Soul Poetry, Reckless Truth Teller, Solo Travel, Support, Survivor, Travel, travel heals, Wandering Widow, Widowhood

Adventure Part 20 – Portugal

February 26, 2018 By Lisa Bain

Sintra-Portugal

A Wandering Widow Post "Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down." Darnell Lamont Walker I'd always envisioned Portugal as a beautiful, sunny, coastal country and was excited to get there. As much as I love traveling in the off-season, … [Read more...] about Adventure Part 20 – Portugal

Filed Under: Coping with Grief, Grief Recovery Project, Travel, Widowhood Tagged With: Broken Open, Fado, Fortress, Grief, Grief Journey, Grief Recovery, Grief Recovery Project, Lisbon, Livraria Lello, Obidos, Porto, Portugal, Reckless Truth Teller, Solo Travel, Survivor, Travel, travel heals, Wandering Widow, Widowhood

Adventure Part 19 – The Basque Country

February 7, 2018 By Lisa Bain

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  “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

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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