Short and Sweet Summary: Grief has something to tell you and something to show you. You can’t outrun grief and you don’t get to decide when it pays a visit. But, you must invite grief in when it comes knocking. It’s the only way. My husband was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer on February 14,…
Short and Sweet Summary: When the sky is falling and hysteria takes over your brain, train yourself to stop overthinking the worst-case scenario like Chicken Little did. He believed everything everyone ever told him. How about trying to believe you’re capable of finding a solution instead? Has this happened to you? You’re going along all…
If your husband’s credit card was in his name only and if you don’t live in a community property state (see below), you are not responsible for the debt repayment and many credit card companies simply write off the debt. Send a copy of the death certificate to the credit card company via certified mail…
Short and Sweet Summary: For years after my husband’s death, I only remembered his charming, likable characteristics in an effort to honor his soul. To make his time on Earth mean something. My dead husband’s position on the perfection pedestal rose higher and higher while I sunk deeper into negative self-talk because my kids were…
Short and Sweet Summary: Our kids are learning life’s greatest lessons at an earlier age than most. Although we’d love to protect our kids from heartache and pain, adversity really does breed character. Bad things happen to good people all the time. We can’t prevent the hardships in our lives but we can decide how…
Short and Sweet Summary: Now that you’re on your own, setting up an emergency fund is a practical way to reduce stress and ease the financial anxiety that comes with those not-planned-for emergencies. Cutting a few monthly expenses could help fund your emergency account and give you the peace of mind to handle any crisis…
Short and Sweet Summary: If you’ve surrendered your last remaining slivers of control to grief’s black abyss, it’s time for a friendly intervention. You are in control of a lot more than you think. When your life shatters in ways you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy, it’s easy to feel like you have no…
Short and Sweet Summary: Is there a fix for grief? Something we can do to lessen the pain? Well, yes and no. Learn the biggest truth about fixing grief you shouldn’t ignore. The agony of grief is enough to make you want to gouge out your eyeballs with jagged spikes dipped in molten lava because…
Short and Sweet Summary: Widowhood is already full of heartache and pain and when your brain isn’t functioning at its optimal capacity, it’s frustrating as hell. When you can’t find the right words or you keep forgetting things, take a deep breath. And practice these suggestions to ease the frustration of managing widow brain moments…
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