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Camp Widow Serendipity . . .

March 22, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Hands holding one rock each with the word "Integrity" painted on each rock.

… a story. It was September of 2022 in Denver at the local community college. A widow, finding no support options in Mississippi, arrives via a road trip where Soaring Spirits is offering a one-day program for widowed people. What was she thinking when she arrived? She did not know a soul and discovered the […]

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How Lucky Are We?

March 15, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

View from the last row of a conference room at Camp Widow.

The Wonder of a Camp for Widowed People (the sequel) It is truly a wonder that a camp for widowed people exists! In October 2021, after I attended my first camp, I wrote about it here. This is the sequel. Camp Widow is a safe place created by widowed people for widowed people. A place […]

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Transformation

March 7, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

green caterpillar with red stripes crawling up a branch

Days of the “goo” were common, in the first days of grief in spring 2021. Goo refers to what happens to caterpillars after they close themselves up in a cocoon. They liquify and live in the liminal space of “no longer this” and “not yet that” — I relate to those words. The transformation that […]

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Working Woman Still

February 28, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

woman at a desk using a laptop

When Dan was alive he used to tell me I worked too hard. The word “work” mostly referred to one or another creative project in addition to my professional job. He was right. I don’t have great boundaries sometimes and the middle of the night, or the wee hours of the morning, are when I […]

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A Story of Widowed Life

February 22, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

two nasturtium leaves in a tiny vase of water

as told by the Nasturtiums Signs of spring are everywhere in Riverside, California. Today’s post is a story board, courtesy of a magical plant whose leaves are a story in and of themselves. Studying a nasturtium leaf brings to mind images of fairies hiding beneath, or tiny creatures using the leaf as an umbrella amid […]

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Valentines, Valentines, Valentines Everywhere . . .

February 8, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

. . . it’s here again In trying to take stock of Valentine’s Day past, memory is fuzzy. Images come forward of our last V-Day together… Family room with hospital bed set up Candles Decorative hearts abound Did we eat? It seems a blip on the radar screen of a long goodbye with no clear […]

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Inspiration from

January 25, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Mapping Grief:

January 18, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Regrouping After Trauma

December 28, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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 […]

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The Longest Night

December 14, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Early Morning Musings In Between Holidays

November 30, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Art as a Tool for Healing

November 8, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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 […]

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