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Both/And

Posted on: February 1, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Both/And thinking [the opposite of either/or thinking] recognizes the folly of assuming that the new will totally supplant the old. Seeing with Both/And eyes recognizes that two opposite realities can be integrated. Adapted from Daniel Burrus at Burrus Research Today’s repost is certainly one worth sharing again! Today marks two months and two weeks since […]

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Inspiration from

Posted on: January 25, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

The Widow Clicquot Who was 4 and a half feet tall with light colored hair and grey eyes and stormed the champagne industry during the French Revolution? That’s right! Barbe-Nicole: The Lady Herself Barbe-Nicole was widowed in 1805, at the age of 23. Women of that time were not allowed to run a business, but […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community

Mapping Grief:

Posted on: January 18, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

A Man Called Otto. We first meet Otto six months after his wife’s death. With no apparent family, and having cut ties with those he was once close with, a grief-stricken Otto is isolated and in constant pain. He rages like a wounded bull as he goes about his daily life in the tiny neighborhood […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One

Resilience

Posted on: January 11, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

What is resilience? the Sea asked the Rock   Ask the tree the Rock replied   What is Resilience? the Sea asked the Tree   We are it the Tree replied Sky, Tree, Plants, Rock, and Sea   each in our own way. Keep going.      

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community

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

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

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

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