Our own grief and trauma are experienced in a variety of ways- emotionally, physically, behaviorally. Our minds and bodies can react with shock, rage, fatigue, appetite changes, sleep disturbances and loss of concentration.
Newly Widowed: Help for the First Year of Widowhood
Self-Care in the Early Days
How do you practice self-care when you don’t have the energy to shower? For many widowed people the early days after the death of their person are lived in a fog and self-care is not a concept to which any attention is paid.
Journaling Your Journey
Learn how writing about your journey through widowhood – whether in a diary, a prompted journal, poetry, letters or just any crude stick figures you can manage to create through your pain – can be cathartic…
Taming Anxiety
Grief and trauma can cause an enormously painful dividing line in our personal life story: there is the person we were before our loved one died and the person we are now becoming.
The Search for Calm/Sleep For the Busy and Exhausted Mind
Panic, anxiety, restlessness, exhaustion, racing thoughts, lack of focus, disconnect…grief can make it difficult to sleep, stay asleep or simply find a moment of calm.
Forgiveness; No Solutions, No Answers, Just the Question.
Twenty-three years since the homicide of his wife, Tom offers no solutions or answers.