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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Today is the day. It is December 1, 2007-- the funeral is today. Yesterday was the wake. I stood there, still in shock. I am still in shock now. I…