Let's Talk Widowish with Melissa Gould

In this episode, Mari shares four significant lessons she has learned throughout her four years of widowhood. For the first time ever, Mari also shares the name of her new upcoming bilingual children's book. 

Mari is an author, widow, podcaster, and the founder of embracingwidowhood.com & The Embracing Widowhood Podcast. 

In this episode, you will hear:

- Lessons learned from a young widow in her four years of widowhood
- Research-based information on the brain while in grief
- Information on Grief Spurts
- & Boundaries

In this episode, Mari interviews Janice from @anotherstrongwidow, a former geologist and mother of three young children who had to face her own cancer diagnosis shortly after burying her husband, who also died from another form of cancer.

In this episode, you will hear:

* A young women's early journey in widowhood

* Having to face a scary health diagnosis as a mom

* Talking to young children about death

* Resources for the Holidays &

* Research on Grief and Love.

Resources Include:

https://grief.com/

https://modernwidowsclub.org/

https://nacg.org/

https://www.dougy.org/

https://www.ericshouse.org/events/

Mari Marquez, a Ph.D. Student and children's book author shares research on how widowhood can impact our children. Mari shares points from various studies as to why navigating solo-parenting, widowhood, and rebuilding our identity is challenging. 

In this episode, you will learn:

• Research on young widows with dependent-age children. 
• How widowhood can impact our children.
• Ways to help ourselves after a loss. 

Embracingwidowhood.com

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Kay Moodley is the mother of two young children whose husband died from stage 4 terminal gastric cancer in 2018. 

In this episode, Mari Marquez interviews Kay Moodley as she shares her story of loss and needing to grieve through a pandemic. Kay shares some of the resources that were helpful to her as a widow. And she also talks about helping her children as a mom cope with their own grief.

Kay also shares some exciting news about a project she and her son have developed to help other grieving children. 

Carolyn Moor is one of the most influential widow advocates leading the healthy widow revolutionary concept for modern women worldwide. 

In this episode, Mari Marquez interviews Carolyn Moor, the Founder and President of Modern Widows Club. Carolyn shares her personal story of losing her husband on Valentine's Day, 22 years ago. She discusses raising two young daughters as an only parent and shares a wealth of knowledge from starting MWC and mentoring a plethora of widowed women. 

Resource: https://modernwidowsclub.org/ https://www.carolynmoor.com/

 

Do all young widows automatically date right away after losing their spouse?

A popular question that society seems to have a plethora of opinions on.

In this episode, Mari Marquez talks about finding love after loss as a young widow, but not in the traditional way that people would expect. She provides essential questions to ask ourselves when we are looking for love.

Resource: https://embracingwidowhood.com/

In this episode, Mari Marquez interviews Award-Winning Screenwriter and the Author of the Memoir Widowish- Melissa Gould, on her best-selling book, parenting as an only parent, finding love again after losing her beloved husband to Multiple Sclerosis & West Nile Virus, and processing grief as a widow.  

Resources: 

https://widowish.com/

https://embracingwidowhood.com/

 

 

Are you grieving during the holidays? 

Many of us are, and in this episode, Mari Marquez shares a few tips on how to help your holiday suck a little less. Mari discusses the expectations associated with the holidays, communicating with family and friends, proceeding with caution on social media, traditions, and integrating your loss into the holiday itself.

Resources: 

https://embracingwidowhood.com/author

https://widowedvillage.org/meetings/

https://modernwidowsclub.org/widow-wisdom-when-you-lost-your-spouse-what-did-people-do-that-helped-your-children/

https://www.widow180.com/resources/survivingholidays

https://youtu.be/N32kzjlk3C8.

https://www.facebook.com/IamDavidKessler/videos/holiday-grief-in-this-unsual-year/2785813968404008/

In this episode, Mari Marquez interviews Lisa Keefauver, the founder and CEO of Reimagining Grief and the Creator and Host of the podcast "Grief is a Sneaky Bitch" (with over 100k downloads worldwide!), about using her personal and professional experience of more than twenty years as a clinical social worker and narrative therapist, to make a global impact in changing the narratives of grief. Lisa is also a grief activist, educator, writer and provides grief support at an individual and organizational level. 

Website:

https://reimagininggrief.com/

Podcast: 

Grief is a Sneaky Bitch

 

 

The three-year mark.

In this episode, Mari Marquez speaks candidly about motherhood as a solo parent, self-love, and forgiveness in her third year as a young widow.

You can find more resources at: https://embracingwidowhood.com/.