Keeping Their Legacy Alive for the Next Generation
One of the challenges that we faced in our journeys was how to tell our grandchildren about our loved one. They would never physically know them; however, we wanted to…
Moving through life stages without them
When we marry, we imagine all sorts of future events—traveling, careers, having children, family events, graduations, weddings, having grandchildren, and various gatherings. In these visions, we always see us with…
Their Things
Once the initial shock is over and we begin the grief journey, we begin to look around at all the stuff around us. There is so much of their things…
Grief Struggle – Loneliness
One of the toughest grief struggles we face when we lose our spouse is loneliness. It’s a hard type of loneliness that makes us bone weary. We have lost our…
Grief Struggles – Why is this our path?
From time to time, we have a discussion about what topics we want to cover in our blog. We decided to start a series on grief struggles. There are also…
Boundaries are Self-Care
We often talk about self-care in our blog and what that looks like in practice. Self-care is basically taking time to refuel yourself and your systems. It is not selfish.…
It’s OK to Get Married – Teresa’s story
Our last blog was about it’s OK to love again. If you are not ready to love again, that’s OK. It’s more than OK. For a long time, neither of…
It’s OK to cry and show “negative” emotions
When we’re grieving we often can wonder if it’s still OK to cry. We may be afraid to show our preconceived notion of “negative” emotions. We often consider negative emotions…
Compound Grief
Today, we are going to talk about how additional deaths after the loss of our spouse can compound our grief. We’ve been avoiding this topic because it’s just so hard…
The Question of Organ Donation
Organ donation is a topic that sometimes we discuss before our death and may have a someday I’ll get to it approach. Jeni and I both have our stories to…