Anger – The Next Step in The Grief Journey
This is the 2nd topic, in our Let’s Talk About The Grief Journey and Stages. Anger-- it’s a topic often thought to be a negative feeling. While it can be…
Let Talk About Denial – Part 2 of Our Series on the Grief Journey & Stages
Last week we introduced this series, Let’s Talk About The Grief Journey and Stages. Our image of a spiral staircase is critical. This isn’t a linear or step by step…
Grief Journey & Stages – Let’s talk about them
We often use the term grief journey to describe our personal journeys through the grief stages. Often, you will hear us refer to the widow journey in many of our…
Summer Time Vacationing and Grief
It’s summertime and everyone is vacationing and posting their happy family photos on social media. Meanwhile for those who are grieving you may not even be able to contemplate vacationing…
Father’s Day Heartache
Father’s Day, can be a difficult and challenging time if you no longer have your father, your husband is deceased and your children no longer have a dad. As we…
50 to 100
Bob would have been fifty today. Today is the day of the year that he caught up to me and we shared the same age...until my birthday when I would…
Lady Who Jumped in Police Car
The night Bob died was, undeniably, the worst night of my life. Even so, there were moments of light in that night that I still carry with me today. One…
Mother’s Day Musings
Mother’s Day is totally different now. You are now both Mother and Father. Single parenting is hard. People are still trying to help you handle the events of life. You,…
Soul Love: How A Dog Taught Me To Breathe Again – Teresa’s Memoir
Hello Torn In Half, My memoir finally available today! Tues. 4/24, 2018. Soul Love: How A Dog Taught Me To Breathe Again is about the death of my first husband, Kris…
Till Death Do You Part is a Finite Number
To the bride planning her wedding and saying her vows, the phrase “Till Death Do You Part” sounds like forever. It is in the distant future. It is barely in…