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Ruff Times and Holidays

Posted on: December 24, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

“The presence and companionship of dogs, the observation of their playful tactics has helped patients on their way back to normal thinking and living.” Captain Wm. Lewis Judy,Founder of National Dog Week (1928) and long time publisher of Dog World Magazine. I realized the other day that as the Saturday Widow’s Voice poster I’d be […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous

Seasons of The Mermaid

Posted on: December 17, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

When I first moved to Southeast Coastal Georgia in March 2020, the Pandemic was in its early stages. In our new clime, however, life went on pretty much as usual with fewer restrictions than in the Northern region we’d just left. March in Southeast Georgia can be quite warm and by April, pool season was […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous

Holiday Adaptations

Posted on: December 10, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

In  the fall of 2020, my late husband purchased the Christmas tree of his dreams at a Lowes in Kingsland, GA. After a challenging year Rich looked forward to the joy of the holiday season he’d always loved.  We purchased that tree on a very warm southern September day. We’d moved from New Jersey to […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness

Dancing with the Scars

Posted on: December 3, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

In early December of last year, a little peaches and cream ball of fluff entered my lonely life at just the “write time”. The following appeared in Ruff Drafts, the official newsletter of the Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA) an organization on which I serve as a Board Member. It’s a longer read than […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Some Holidays are Better Than Others

Posted on: November 26, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

One of the most difficult parts of the mourning process many widowed people experience is the loss of future occasions including holidays and anniversaries. We find ourselves listening to long-time married friends, family members and colleagues as they speak glowingly of their trips and celebrations of decades spent in togetherness. While we are truly happy […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses

Waters of Significance

Posted on: November 19, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

  In last Saturday’s post, I shared the continuing process of spreading my late husband’s cremains throughout multiple watery locations. Choosing these meaningful places for this journey has been an important step for me, and others, in the mourning progress and honoring Rich as he’d wished to be.   As a watery theme had run […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous

“Urning” Places in the Heart

Posted on: November 12, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

Rich passed on a Thursday. By Friday morning it became apparent that I had to make final arrangements for him. Throughout nearly 30 years together, Rich and I had attended many funerals and services for friends and family members. “Please don’t ever have one of those for me,” he’d commented on numerous occasions after attending […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Community, Military Widowed, Uncategorized

Cumulative Grief

Posted on: November 5, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

  When you’ve experienced multiple losses within a short period of time, you may begin to wonder how much more loss you can endure. This is known as Cumulative Grief, when one experiences multiple losses either all at once, or before processing an earlier loss. In coping with the one year anniversary of my husband’s […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses

Good Thoughts and Prayers

Posted on: October 29, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

I’ve found it difficult to recall the rapidly unfolding events that occurred this week one year ago.  The beautiful fall weather in the South features lack of the nearly year-round humidity. Clear Cerulean Blue skies. The Scarecrow Festival in downtown St. Marys, GA, the place I now call home.  I wasn’t able to recall experiencing […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Widowed by Illness, Uncategorized

Hope as a Helpful Diversion

Posted on: October 22, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

After I’d edited and saved last week’s post, The Fine Art of Inoculation, my home experienced a powerful surge followed by a brief power outage. I later found out, however, that some of my neighbors had experienced a longer period of time without power.  Because of the precise timing of its occurrence, I suspect that […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Military Widowed, Widowed by Illness

The Fine Art of Inoculation

Posted on: October 15, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

  I’ve been anxious about this fall season marking the one year anniversary when life as I’d known it for nearly 30 years profoundly changed with the swift and unexpected passing of my husband, Rich.  I fully anticipated and understood that the period between early October and the 28th of this month would be a […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Community, Widowed by Illness

We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Heart!

Posted on: October 8, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

“When man gets lonely, God sends a dog.”  Alphonse de Lamartine Tomorrow, October 9th, my little dog Quint turns one. Although Quint was born one of a litter of 5, the origin of his name is actually derived from the movie JAWS.  Robert Shaw, the actor who played Quint in JAWS was a favorite of […]

Categories: Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

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