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Widow, PhD
A suicide widow’s path through healing after loss, finding joy, and reclaiming life
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Grief process
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Suicide survivors
Parenting
Stigma and shame
Early grief
Grief waves
I wish I would have known..
I wish I would have been told that I will be ok, but it will take time. The intense pain of the early days and weeks does not continue...
May 14, 2022
4 min read
Letting go of my marriage
On what would have been our 19th wedding anniversary, I went to Whidbey Island with my parents and the kids to scatter some of Andy’s...
Aug 24, 2021
8 min read
Physical effects of grief
One week after Andy died I began to feel weakness and numbing in my legs. At times, I felt like my knees might buckle and I might...
Aug 3, 2021
6 min read
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