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The Upward Trend of Suicide
This article linked below came up for me this morning and I flagged it to write about, especially in light of Kate Spade having committed suicide this week. Then I read about Anthony Bourdain. Your mental health is your highest priority - no matter who you are. The...
Your Purpose is What You’ve Always Done
Some may think I "became" a life coach when I went for my certification, but I've been life coaching my entire life. It started my first day in kindergarten when I ran around the room trying to console every little kid who was crying. Every job I worked in, I...
A New Widow Image, Please
On my soapbox this morning because I have yet again come across a post from a widow site that is such a downer. As a widow myself, I know the sadness can be crushing - so why try to make it even more painful? I'm determined to change the discourse on widowhood! Not...
On the Other Side of Hard and Difficult
This morning the universe emailed a reminder to me that all the hard and difficult things I've ever attempted were only hard and difficult before I began to work on them. There is so much truth to that. I can look back over the last two years at all the "hard...
One Year After Scattering Ashes
Jim had always said when he was gone, I was to scatter his ashes off of this old bridge over the Esopus River. He was a New Yorker – raised in Queens and lived in New York City his entire life. But as a kid,
What Do You Wish You Knew Before Becoming Widowed?
This is a question I've been asking other widows - what is it you wish you knew? The answers are varied and sometimes, even contradicting. But that is how widowhood is. As much as we all have in common, and trust me it is a LOT, we are also having a singularly...
Opening the Widow Blog
So, this all began as a private blog under "lock down" so that I could communicate with my husband after he passed away in the way we met:. In text, over the internet, over 20 years ago. It was the birth of the internet really. Back in 1991, posting a note to the...
More talking to dead people
Dear Mom and Dad, I started this as a way to "talk" to Jim after he passed on, but realized I could reach out to you two as well. Writing to dead people may become a habit. Yesterday I started a visualization/meditation to create money in my life. I decided to...
You Are So Beautiful To Me
Dear Jim, Finally this morning I could go back to the video link you emailed to me 2 days before you died. Subject line was “To my Joann” and the link was Joe Cocker singing “You are so beautiful.” Talk about a parting gift. On Xmas day, you sent a link to all your...
Almost Two Weeks
Dear Jim, It has been nearly 2 weeks since you died. I am not even sure how that many days can have already gone past. We talked about this day. With your being 16 years older, it was understood between us that you would most likely be the first to pass and I would...
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