by Joann Filomena | Feb 6, 2020
Today’s Widow Cast podcast was recorded live while broadcasting on video to my free Facebook group: Widows Empowering Widows. In our group, conversations had come up around the feeling that the relationship with their spouse who had passed on was gone and no...
by Joann Filomena | Jan 27, 2020
A coach friend shared this on Facebook and said, “Sometimes you just need a sweet, detailed answer fueled by someone not insinuating even a teensy bit that you’re stupid:” The replies that followed looked like this: This is exactly how it is for one of my...
by Joann Filomena | Jan 2, 2020
What are you thinking as a widow? About you? About your loss? About your life? About your money? About all your external relationships? Our thoughts often are all over the place. Sometimes our brain is telling us thoughts that make us feel awful or fearful. I...
by Joann Filomena | Dec 27, 2019
As a new widow, my first New Year’s Eve felt like “This is NOT how I expected to bring in the new year.” You see, Jim died the evening of Dec 29th. So the year of 2014 closed out in less than 48 hours after his death. I was still in shock as I sat...
by Joann Filomena | Dec 26, 2019
Widows – Do you see too many social media posts that are like a kick in your soul? They are depressing – make your sadness heavier. It is one of the reasons I took on opening a Facebook Group page called Widows Empowering Widows – I wanted to share...
