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What Grows On

Posted on: March 25, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

My last two posts have focused on the inner workings and transformation of house, home and human in the wake of profound loss. It was so gratifying to see my post, “Staying in Place”, written earlier this month recently featured on the Facebook Page of Soaring Spirits, International, and to see it appreciated by those […]

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

Exercise as Self Care

Posted on: March 6, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

Why is it so hard to prioritize ourselves and our health? Before Tony passed, I had started a workout routine that I enjoyed. It was the first time since having kids that I had started one and was sticking to it. The day he passed was the 79th day in a row that I had […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed by Suicide, Uncategorized

New Grief Group

Posted on: March 3, 2023 | Posted by: Victoria Helmly

Last week I started going to a grief group. It is led by the therapist I have been seeing for several months, and she encouraged me to join it. I was a little hesitant because I was not sure how helpful it will be, but I am feeling like I need the extra support. March […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Therapy

Happily Paired, or “Quirkyalone”, Happy Valentines Day

Posted on: February 11, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

Last Saturday, I was fortunate to join other local artists for an art gala in my local community. It had been many years since I’d exhibited at or had been involved in the organization of such an event. Congratulations to the members of the Osprey Cove Women’s Club, my fellow committee members and the supportive […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Getting Back

Posted on: January 28, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

One of the biggest challenges of adjusting to life as a widow is trying to hold on to the memory of the life you had as part of a long-time couple while trying to remember the “Me” before “We”. In my case, recalling the latter is tied closely to the former. Last week I started […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous

Powering Through 

Posted on: January 21, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

In the spring of 2014, I was diagnosed with a thyroid disease called Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. My doctor proclaimed it was the worst case he’d ever seen and classified my case as Myxedema, another term for severely advanced hypothyroidism, a condition that occurs when your body doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormone. As January is Thyroid Awareness […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous

Tapping in to The “Terrible Two-Year”

Posted on: January 7, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

Posting here each Saturday has been an incredible opportunity. I love when someone tells me they’ve shared my post(s) with someone else who’s lost a spouse or experienced another kind of significant loss. Even those who haven’t have expressed their appreciation for the insight they’ve derived from some of these posts. That is what keeps […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Observance Breeds Awareness

Posted on: December 31, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

It seems like every day, week, and month there’s an official Awareness Observance for just about every thing under the sun. For instance, as I write we’re in the midst of Spiritual Literacy Month established in 1996 to encourage us to read books with spiritual themes, we are also currently in the middle of “It’s […]

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

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

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

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

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

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