How can you call yourself One HAPPY widow? Didn’t you lose a spouse? You might be wondering why I call myself One Happy Widow. Yes, I lost my husband on June 17, 2017 to cancer. It was a very sad time in my life, both his illness and his death, but it did not turn my whole life into sadness. It did for a while, but that’s not my whole life. I am not my grief. My late husband is finished living, but I am not. I spent some time crying, grieving, hiding. But I am tired of grieving, and I want to ...
How Can You Be One Happy Widow?
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12 Things I learned when I became a widow (part 1)
In 2017, I became a widow and my whole life changed overnight. In that time since, I have learned a few things that I never would have imagined until it happened to me. Here is a list of the topics. You can click on each one to be taken to the details below: Never enough timeNever prepared enoughForgetting the funeralDelayed sadnessDeath brings out the worstLeft behindPeople say dumb stuffWeird triggersA new identityBefore/after deathNo Right Way To GrieveNo Fear of Death 12 Things ...
The Top 5 Areas of Growth for Widows
Are you ready to take control of your life? I have narrowed down the top 5 areas of growth that widowed people can focus on in their journey to a happy life. Read through these categories, and give some thought to what areas you'd like to improve. We can't fix everything in our live at once, but we can narrow our focus and choose one area that we want to concentrate on first, and start making a plan! At the end of this article, I will give you some tips on how we can work together to ...
I am One Happy Widow- and YOU can be too! Here’s Why:
Who is One Happy Widow Meant to Help? When I became a widow, I started joining several Facebook groups for widowed people, in hopes that I could find some support. Some groups were a little too dark/inappropriate for my taste, others seemed to be in a constant competition about whose tragedy was the worst. Many of the members would post about refusing to accept that they were no longer married, and angrily state their still-married status like a badge of honor. I have the most sympathy for ...
5 Ways I want to help widowed people
5 Ways I want to help widowed people: If you are here and reading this blog, you have probably lost someone you love and are grieving that loss. Most likely, it was a significant other, and that loss has changed every aspect of your daily life. You may feel lost, sad, hopeless, or wonder about your purpose in life without them. Grief is a complicated process, and I am there too! I have been a widow since 2017. Sometimes we get stuck in one or more of the stages of grief, and are not sure ...
