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Loved listening to this ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I find it helps intentionally building variety into my life. The admin of the estate and sorting out all the stuff has to be done, but sandwich it in thing you love and creative things.

I have lost my husband and his two sisters in the last four years, every one of these losses were very different but my husband was the most difficult. I went back to work a month after his passing and did well for a month until I started to spiral. I just take one day at a time

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Thank you Karen for sharing these ladies with us. It’s amazing because each journey is different but the hope is the same. Love Doris. In Texas

Karen, Thanks for sharing. My wife Shannon, 53 years old, died by suicide on Nov. 14, 2023 after struggling with depression brought on by menopause. I have just been surviving the last 14 months. We wanted to be together all the time. My name is Dan and our friends called us "Dannon" after mixing our two names together. My loneliness has been so debilitating but I try so hard to continue on. We were cyclists together and we rode almost every day that we could. I continue to ride as much as possible. I feel closer to her when I do the things we shared, even though the longing for her is immense.

You were so blessed to be able to tell him you loved him. I didn’t get that chance I was recovering from a car wreck he was being care for in private home. He tried so many times breacking the locks off doors, calling wanted to come home toowan my name he just kept come home to me. When my son and daughter went to be with him when he passed .i could not cry I was numb. He was the most caring funny person you could ever meet. I miss him terribly I am taking one day at a time. We promised to not put each other in a nursing home I kept that promised. Thanks for sharing this with me. It helps.

Thank you so much for your encouraging words. My twin flame died on Halloween last year and it's the most painful experience of my life. Now I'm raising my 3 daughters as a single father and I have support around me... Yet I feel so alone all the time. I love listening to your podcasts as they are very helpful.

Karen, you are right on so many levels. But hearing them again is so very helpful. Not quite three years in, and I just decided to change my whole living room (sitting room?) around and my bedroom too. At 70, I am not looking for another partner and that is okay with me. But changing things around, some of which my husband loved, will put a fresh perspective on how I see and feel things in my home and world. Thank you very much for what you do. Much love back at you, Janet ♥️☘️

I love your videos. They’re really helpful. It’s been surprising the way you feel family and friends will help you and look after you and you can be passive. In fact, you have to be more active, put yourself out there, and be a go getter just when you feel you can’t.

Thank you very much for giving me an understanding of my grief. I lost my husband a month ago he had brain Lymphoma and in three months he was gone, I feel very guilty all the time thinking I could have done more to comfort him, life is not the same and it is going to be a long way for some recovery 😢

I am so grateful how you express take time and let it be on our terms. I will never stop loving him all the rest of my life. He was my Prince Charming caring generous sweet I just miss him but that is alright. Bless you for your gift to us. Don’t stop we need your gift God gave to you. Much love.

Great podcast. I lost my husband (gee whiz kristina you didn’t loose him. He died 🤦🏻‍♀️) in September 2024 after 21 years together. I’m trying to consume all the podcasts I can listen to Thanks for sharing

You are helping me so much to help me look at this compared to others. I pray for all of them. I am struggling up a hill that is straight up with no rest. I needed to hear you. God bless you😅. T😢tying to love me it’s hard people don’t understand . I needed your encouragement. Thank you my hand passed three month ago. His health after Vietnam started with colon cancer, back surgery lost job, heart attack, after heart attack once the doc said his widow maker cannot take a surgery so that was the start. I was inthe hospital and so was he at the time he died. Thank you

This really hits home with me! I’ve experienced the “widows fire” which elated and horrified me at the same time! I was caregiver to my wonderful loving husband and, I think, at 74, my mind finally relaxed. I also found myself having the hots for a friend who’s also widowed. Not wanting to risk being so vulnerable or rejection I’m super cautious. I value our friendship too much. I’m learning to be comfortable and content by myself right now. Thank you for bringing up this subject.

Thank you Karen. Yes, this is important

13 mths in. Every day is a battle, today am proud that I was alone for the first time in my life on New Year’s Eve and I survived ❤💔 sending love to everyone ❤

I felt like you were directly talking to me Karen! This is exactly what I needed to hear today! I’m 18 months in my grief journey, and miss the person who understood me and was my anchor in life. Thank you so much!

I am 8 years in and she is spot on !!!! Thank you

Thank you!

Thst id exactly how I feel 4 months in. On New Years eve surrounded by my " support sgstem".

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What helps me is staying busy and having projects. I restore and build hot rod cars and trucks as a hobby and always have a project going on. My garage is always lit up and rock n rollin till way after dark after work. This was my first Christmas after my Wife passed and I did so much better than I thought I would. I’m building a truck for my 16 year old Grandson but he doesn’t know it’s his yet but I took him out in it the other day and taught him how to drive a stick shift. He really loved it. I can’t wait to paint it and fix the interior up before I hand him the keys.

My Phil passed suddenly 2/20/24, christmas and nye increadibly hard, nye is when we met

It has been 3 yrs since my husband passed away. We were just 54 yrs old and married 34 yrs. I still don't have any of those desires or feelings anymore. I am not missing companionship or missing being married. I just my husband and the feelings I shared with him. I can't replace that. So for me, I have not had any of those desires whatsoever. I guess it is just different for each of us.

Thank you Karen

"Be kind to yourself" irritates me no end. And "O, they meant well", when someone treated me as if I can't think for myself

I understand. My dear husband of 44 years passed away February 19, 2024. It is devastating.

Thank you all for these kind and wise words. 🌷

Thank you Karen. All the best, Janet XO 🎄✨♥️☘️

My 1st Christmas without my best friend and husband of 32 years .I am getting through , but feel alone in on a crowd and no one knows how devastated I am. He suffered so , but I still want him back , even broken Ill take him . I am numb. I hate the thought of the New Year the worst, because he will be left behind forever in 2024....its like losing him again. I am trying , but this grief cannot be understood by anyone who hasn't been through it.God Bless all on here going through this. The grieving changes but I will be forever GRIEVED. Merry Christmas.

Thank you Karen. My third Christmas and I haven't been able to do much this year. I think I am moving forward and then something pulls me back. I guess I am still lost. But thank you for your Christmas greeting. It felt good to wake up to you this morning. Sending blessings to you and your beautiful girls. Happy Christmas. 🎄✨♥️☘️

Karen. I thank you and the beautiful women of your group for the wisdom you all provided to help others through the difficult journey of grief. My husband of 46 years, Chris, passed away four years ago on December 16th. That date is still a challenge for me to get through. Then eight days later, Christmas Eve, is his birthday and to my surprise this is the first year that I didn’t want to stay curled up on the couch. I was ok. I even baked an apple pie in honor of his birthday because he always preferred fruit pies in lieu of a cake. There’s not a day that goes by without him on my mind and in my heart. I desperately miss him; I find myself wishing for one more day and one more night and I can’t help but wonder, would I then be satisfied? Merry Christmas everyone!!! ❤ 23:05

Oh my dear Karen, only bounced on your channel today with my agemates widow wood ladies mine happened July 17 2021 I still cry and anger and miss and see nothing good without my Leonard but at least if I keep watch here God willing will be as fine as them. I tried to subscribe but it declined dear

He was my best friend . We did everything together. We had a life of adventures, built vivid memories. 32 years together. Entering 3rd year and still haven't wept. Whole body shook for over a year. Humans are a chore, irritating. I can only communicate with animals, birds, insect, plants. Cannot imagine sharing being alive with another. Look forward to finding him again. I am acting at being ok. Cannot collapse as it's my duty to represent us both now. Just getting through each day and each night. Without my animal friends I would have not got this far.

Exactly what I needed to hear today! 17 months now for me; I miss him daily. It’s the secondary issues I’m working through. I’m continuing to find my new self. Thank you for your insight and inspiration.

I'm a gay man doing some research on the behalf of a neighbor/friend who lost her husband of 40 years recently. This presentation is so helpful! Thank you from Maine USA.

Karen’s podcasts are so helpful, and so were these two ladies. Other podcasts interest me less because the experiences they talk about are too personal to them and I can’t relate. One of the ladies says she misses male company. That’s exactly it. It’s hard to imagine anther love at my age but I’m always with women. I miss male company. Secondary gains - that’s so interesting too. Losing my husband was even more painful than I imagined, but after years of caregiving, there were small gains. I felt guilty when I noticed them, but they’re the things to build on to get value from my life from now.

Moira and Clare you are such stars for doing you and sharing your experiences! ❤❤

I give these women, Moira and Clare, a lot of credit. It is just not in my DNA. I could not do it. ♥️☘️

Solace is a very difficult experience.

How can I join your holiday support group?

Not many would show up because they judged my husband for committing suicide. Still haven't 2 and half years in. Judging different grieving styles is totally different. I have been very hurt by this. Yes, I shy away from those conversations. I have become selfish to protect myself.

"I haven't got the energy for this." Isn't that the truth! Why would I, as a 70 year old, want to put myself through all of that? I don't even drink coffee! This self discovery thing, I don't know ... LOL!

Thank you for your vision and this podcast, i had a lot of aha moments💡. Very relyeble and insightfull🙌🌷

Hi Karen my wife passed away on August 11th 2024. I cry profusely every day and night I don’t see anyway out of this. We were married for 50 years. It feels like I have been amputated.

Thank you both for a great podcast. I am looking forward to the workbook! 🙏

Thats amazing that you met Mother Theresa. She was my Wife’s favorite superhero .

You have to move on they would want you to pray syau busy doing things you always wanted to do. Grief will get easier. Join a support group ❤❤

My husband died almost 3 months ago. We were married for 11 years but fought MCL a rare form of lymphoma for 10 years solid fight fight fight for your life! Anticipatory grief didn’t make it any easier. Just saying I miss him so much every waking moment of my lonesome day 😢 Love is something special ❤ I should be happy