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I help guide widows through life after loss

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Hi, I’m Kim

I’ve been a widow since 2014 and I created Widow 411 as a place for you to find all the widow resources and support you need to help make widowhood more manageable. Now that you’re learning to live by a new set of rules, things can get complicated. I get it! Find my tips, tricks, successes, and failures (doh!) and learn how to put the puzzle pieces of your shattered existence back together.

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Featured Widow Resources and Support

The Action Plan Every Widow Needs

This online course guides you through all the post-death tasks widows must accomplish in nine efficiently organized sections to help you tackle your newly widowed to-do’s without going insane.

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Widow Squad Membership

Join a community of widows just like you learning tools and strategies for moving forward with ease and growing your confidence for doing hard things.

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Better Year Better You Toolbox

Monthly themed calendars with simple suggestions to elevate your mind, body and spirit and help you reap great personal rewards with minimal effort.

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You are helping me

Your newsletters keep striking such a chord with me I just have to reach out and let you know how much you are helping me!
– Linda

Thank you for being here

If it wasn’t for you and your advice, I would have been lost.
– Tanya

I absolutely love this website!

As a recent widow (4 months) I absolutely love this website. I don’t usually comment but feel compelled to do so. Thank you for the articles I have found so helpful.
– Barbara

It helps to know I’m not alone

Thank you so very much for putting together this website! I intend to spend a lot of time here in the days, weeks and months ahead. It helps to know what I’m feeling isn’t unusual.
– Pam

I really appreciate your time

Your emails are full of wonderful information. I really appreciate the time you put into sending them out to all of us.
– Loralie

Your words carry such important meaning

Thank you for helping all of us walk this unfamiliar path.
– Carol

You are helping me

Your newsletters keep striking such a chord with me I just have to reach out and let you know how much you are helping me!
– Linda

Your blog is a breath of fresh air!

Thanks for keeping it real, and simple.
– Heidi

I just love all this practical advice

I have begun to really appreciate this site. At first I thought it was all about and only about how to live with one’s great loss. Now I just love all this practical advice. Thank you so very much. Very helpful!
– Felicitas

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