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Regrouping After Trauma

Posted on: December 28, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Step By Step Professionals who write about trauma these days say that when a person experiences a trauma (small or large) it is important to allow the trauma to “keep moving through” our psyche. Last week I experienced a trauma that bumped into a bigger trauma that looms in my life—Death. Death was present in […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy

A Collision of Griefs

Posted on: December 20, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

COLLISION implies the coming together of two or more things with such force that both or all are damaged or their progress is severely impeded. —Merriam Webster Not a great day today. Not an actual collision, but a collision of complications connected with the death of my husband. If I were to name it, were […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Emotions

The Longest Night

Posted on: December 14, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

At the winter solstice the Sun travels the shortest path through the sky, and that day therefore has the least daylight and the longest night.  [Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica] Last night I participated in a meet-up titled Still Point, a reference to that longest night on its way to us. Sixty minutes of spontaneous art shared […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing

In Between

Posted on: December 7, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

and Betwixt. I’m ill with Covid.   Illness is one of those things; a part of life; an activity of the living.   In between and betwixt countless other dailies that are just for me now.   Tomorrow is back again already.   Trying to stay in the now.   And still keep up as […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays

Early Morning Musings In Between Holidays

Posted on: November 30, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

In 2021, seven months after Dan died, Thanksgiving arrived. In the calendar of our family traditions Christmas arrived just 32 days later. It is hard to believe that this is only the second holiday season since Dan left us. This morning, I am thinking about some who may be reading this that it is their […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions

Rose colored matching man's shirt and a woman's dress

Missing

Posted on: November 22, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

It began with a need for a garment bag the kind from the cleaners with its pre-slit hole for the hanger — dry cleaners size — with child safety warning included.   I doubted I had one but went into my closet searching for a stray lingering on the closet rod.   I notice a […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Signs from Loved One

Art as a Tool for Healing

Posted on: November 8, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

An Invitation Making art—giving form to the images that arise in our mind’s eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives—is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom.  Pat B. Allen, PhD  Art is a Way of Knowing. There is a hidden secret about art that may benefit those […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy

Medicine From the Body

Posted on: November 2, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Scrolling Facebook recently, I came upon this brilliant bit of medicine by John Roedel. Thank you, John, for this viral post. Deep bow to you. The world consents to the wisdom in these words. Note: The art of this piece is in both the words and in their placement. Due to limitations I am experiencing […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed

Today and yesterday (and weeks, months, years prior) . . .

Posted on: October 26, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

. . . sunflowers continue to bring joy! Do you ever feel “off” in your day…in your body…in the events that transpire between waking in the morning and lying down at day’s end? That was me today. Sitting down to get a head start on my blog post for this week, I drew a blank. […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing

Finding My Way in Year Two

Posted on: October 18, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Which Direction? Which Decision? Being lost is not new to me. My inner navigation plan is usually this: If you think you should turn right, it is highly likely you should turn left. Truth. I admire those who have a born sense of direction—like my husband. The kids often tell tales of being on a […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions

dry fall leaf on open book

Caring for Ourselves . . .

Posted on: October 12, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

. . . an aid for all in trauma or grief   The bad news is that trauma is a fact of life. The good news is it does not have to be a life sentence.                                        […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions

lawn mower and weed whacker

Who would’ve thunk it?

Posted on: October 4, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

A lesson on asking for help. A common conversation among widowed folks is talking about what we miss after our person dies. What comes up first are the special things, the hugs, kisses, dancing, teasing, going to movies, traveling, watching TV together, playing cribbage or other games—the fun stuff we did together. Just being with […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Emotions

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