The posts above this introduction and beginning in 2023 will be taken from the notes used during support meetings of Adaire House. Over a few […]
Hope and Healing Widow and Widowers Support Group, February, 2021 Expanded Notes
Waves of grief: One of the most commonly expressed statements I’ve heard about grief from people who are grieving and in looking back at things […]
We are not our Grief, we are Grieving
Hope and Healing Widow and Widowers Support Group January, 2021 Meeting wavesofgrief2020.org We are not our grief, we are grieving: Three quotes to begin with: […]
Caring for ourselves:
Caring for ourselves: Our grief can make us sick. Especially early on, it can take our strength and our health and spiral them downhill. We […]
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year 2020 is coming to an end. For many of us, it has unfortunately been a year of trials and sadness. Many of […]
Structure to help us return to functionality:
Structure to help us return to functionality: Routines and Rituals: establishing structure with linear patterns and when to become less structured and more non-linear […]
Inertia: An object at rest tends to remain at rest!
Inertia: An object at rest tends to remain at rest! Someone I spoke with recently told me they didn’t like the word healing to […]
Dealing with the material world – Life goes on!
Dealing with the material world – Life goes on, Reconstruction begins. There are things that have to be done to get us through the day, […]
Changes:
Grief has changed our lives. So many of our sure of’s have been lost with the passing of our spouses. I personally found myself clinging […]
Staying Healthy
Paying attention to you health, eating and sleeping and a note of caution: These are three areas many people struggle with early in their journey […]