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Pause

October 11, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Fall leaf on dry grass.

            There are times when words fail   when life demands pause.       There are times when Life fails   Humans fail   Goodness fails;   leaves us frozen in disbelief   grasping for some yesterday that is not now.       There are times of human failure when […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: pause, disbelief, sadness, frozen, shock

I can feel your arms around my Life…

December 18, 2017 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

Today it is thirteen months and 3 days since you died.  Some moments, your death still does not feel real to me.  And, other times, the realness of your death is so apparent I feel nauseated. This is grief in all it’s unapologetic glory. In the early days when you died I couldn’t even breathe. I’d gasp for breathe and I’d rock back and forth,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: neverthelessshepersisted, widowhood, rituals, trauma, baggage, shock, grieving, widow, Numb, love, you'vegotthis, StaciSulin, traveller, grief, numbness, life

The Knowing

May 29, 2015 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

When you lose your beautiful husband to sudden and shocking death at age 39, just four years into your happy and flourishing marriage, one of the biggest things you are left with is something that I call “the knowing.” What is the knowing? It is having the knowledge about a whole host of things regarding life and death, that your previous self had…

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: sudden death cancer, newly widowed, widow, kelley lynn, Sudden Loss, the knowing, shock, heart attack

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