Explore " widowhood" with insightful episodes like "EP5: Who Am I Today?", "Genesis 38", "Episode 3: The Eulogy", "166 | It Is Well (Part Two) with Donna Eller" and "Financially Preparing for Life's Inevitable Struggles - Widowhood & Divorce with Dr. Sabrina Ellis" from podcasts like ""Talk Griefy To Me", "Edgewater Christian Fellowship", "Grief and the In-betweens", "While We're Waiting® - Hope After Child Loss" and "The X Show"" and more!
In this episode, Tatum talks challenges and changes in her life over the last 8 months. With HUGE changes, she reflects on her current self-realizations - "Who am I today?"
As always, Tatum invites you to journal and reflect on who you are before grief and who you are after grief.
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Trying to put our life into words. Welcome to Grief and the In-Betweens.
Donna Eller joins me on the podcast again this week. If you missed last week’s episode, you’ll want to go back and listen to hear the story of her daughter, Julie … some of it in Julie’s own words from the journals she kept during her fierce battle with cancer. Today we extend our conversation to cover a wide range of very practical issues faced by bereaved parents, including giving grace to a spouse who may be grieving very differently than we are … and we’ll also discuss Donna’s more recent experience with grief in the loss of her husband Tim. We pick up our conversation right where we left off last week.
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In a marriage it's difficult, even taboo to discuss what happens if divorce or death happens, but it's a reality of life that it does happen. Dr. Sabrina Ellis, awarded Barack Obama's Lifetime Achievement Award, discusses the harsh realities of widowhood or divorce and how to prepare for them. If you'd like to reach out to Sabrina you can email her at freetothrive.ellis@gmail.com
Planning my husband's funeral and navigating the first holiday without him.
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Welcome to this episode of Finding You Now a Podcast Empowering Moms to Rediscover Their Path, we are joined by the incredible Holly Matthews, a former TV actress, singer, widowed mom of two, self-development coach, and founder of The Happy Me Project.
Holly's journey in the entertainment industry includes memorable roles in popular TV shows such as Waterloo Road, Casualty, and Byker Grove. She has also showcased her musical talents as a singer signed with Sony Music.
However, life took an unexpected turn for Holly when she tragically became a widow. This personal loss inspired her to embark on a path of self-discovery and growth. Drawing from her own experiences, Holly founded The Happy Me Project, a transformative platform that offers online and in-person self-development resources, including a membership, podcast, and an award-winning, best-selling book published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Join us as Holly Matthews shares her unique and refreshing approach to self-development, teaching people how to feel "more happy and less crappy" in a way that reaches those who never thought self-development was for them. Get ready for an inspiring conversation that will leave you motivated to embrace personal growth and find happiness in life's journey.
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In this episode, Tatum explores BOUNDARIES in and around grief. Why we need them, when we need then, how to create them and more are covered in this episode. Tatum uses her own experiences in grief to reference when boundaries are needed for survival and how to respect them from the receiving end.
As always, Tatum invites you to journal and reflect on boundaries in and around your grief. She also provides easy-to-use examples you can start using today!
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Welcome to Grief and the In - Betweens. Today I share how I became a widow at 27.
On this episode titled, What Grief Is and What Grief Isn't, Tatum piggybacks on the last episode, What Is Grief?, with some more types/styles of grief and loss. She also looks into the origin of the 5 Stages of Grief and how she innocently thought they were true. (Originally called, The 5 Stages of Death)
Lastly, she addresses what society "thinks" grief looks like by taking a raw look at what grief is vs. what grief isn't. As always, Tatum invites you to journal and reflect on your grief, loss, journey and struggles.
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Episode #52: Today on Dear Nina I have a guest with a harrowing and inspiring story to share about starting a new life with new friends after a horrific tragedy. This is unlike any story I've heard firsthand, and I'm grateful for Jen's candor and honesty.
Jen Zwinck wrote to me:
After my husband was killed, I moved with my daughter to a small island in the Caribbean where I didn't know a single person. I went there to heal. What surprised me was the friendships that I formed while I was there, these women who came into my life, divinely, I believe, became my angels and my 'stand-in' family. We shared the bond of being expats and I'm still close with them to this day.
Jen Zwinck is a co-founder of the Widow Squad online community, a widow advocate, and an author. She has interviewed over 100 widows and coached hundreds of widows through her courses and online programs. She lives outside of New Orleans.
Find Jen on Instagram @widow_180
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Let's connect over all things friendship!
Along the grief journey there are areas that will try to sidetrack the mind into dead end roads that leads nowhere. But creating healthy thought processes, builds the awareness that progressive grief will move forward and helps one to avoid getting stuck in these 7 bad habits.
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Kathleen Donnelly Israel shares her widow's journey and adventures while walking the Camino Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage on her own in northern Spain. Along the way, she shared her spiritual philosophies with those she met and developed her own practical tips for traveling light.
Book on Amazon: Wisdom on the Camino
In this episode Melissa Joy, CFP, ® discusses grief with Kathi Balasek. Kathi is an educator, grief literacy communication coach, corporate consultant, university lecturer, speaker, widow advocate, and host of the One Well Widow podcast. In this episode she shares her journey in widowhood and talks about the emotional and financial challenges women, in particular, face when losing a spouse.
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Episode #36: My mom, Kathy Sackheim, joined me to discuss widowhood and friendship, as well as friendships while my dad was in the later years of Parkinson's Disease. I'm so grateful for my mom's honesty and advice.
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Cathy interviews Kathi Balasek, an educator, empathy and grief communication coach, university lecturer, speaker, and widow advocate. Kathi teaches financial professionals how to improve their grief literacy communication skills to best serve bereaved clients. She also hosts the One Well Widow podcast, helping widows process their grief and learn from one another.
[08:16] What people don’t always know about grieving families, and how they can talk about death better—especially with children.
[09:36] Kathi Balasek describes her work as a grief communications coach.
[12:37] What is grief literacy?
[16:00] Kathi Balasek explains why it’s so important for women to take an active role in their financial lives, even if their partner takes the lead.
[19:15] The current state of widowhood in the United States.
[22:33] Kathi Balasek shares an example of how she’d train a financial advisor to prepare their women clients for widowhood.
[29:54] The differences in how women and men communicate and why they matter for grief literacy.
[32:36] Alternative phrases to “I’m sorry for your loss.”
[34:22] How to respond when you learn about someone’s death indirectly, like through a Facebook post.
[40:24] Why food and practical gifts are better than flowers when someone dies.
[43:07] Kathi Balasek shares her tips when it comes to recommending other professionals to their widowed clients.
[46:05] The biggest mistake Kathi sees her clients make and the one thing she wishes people understood about grief.
[49:20] Recommended resources for widows and advisors of widows.
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Today, Debbie talks to writer and novelist Hilma Wolitzer, age 92.
She’s just published a new book of short stories titled "Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket." So yes, this is someone who is "making the most of growing older."
Hilma's stories of sharply observed domestic life were published in the Saturday Evening Post and Esquire in the 1960s and 1970s. She has taught writing at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, NYU, and Columbia. She's also the author of nine novels and the recipient of national awards and fellowships.
Her husband of almost 70 years died of COVID in the first months of the pandemic. It was as if he vanished, she told Debbie.
She and her husband Morty both got Covid in April of 2020. They were taken to separate hospitals in New York City.
She never got to say good-bye.
He died two days before she was released from the hospital and went home to her apartment.
As she tells Debbie on the podcast:
"There were his slippers next to the bed. There was a pair of his drugstore eyeglasses. He seemed to have vanished and that was the sense I tried to depict in (the final) story (of her new book). Disappearance rather than dying."
She was encouraged to write through her grief, and to write this story and add it to a new collection, by her daughters: New York Times bestselling novelist Meg Wolitzer and artist Nancy Wolitzer.
She titled the new story, "The Great Escape." It is as diamond sharp and perfect - and funny - as her earlier writing. There's even sex.
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Debbie talks to Suzanne Carmichael about navigating a new phase of her life as a widow at age 78.
Becoming a widow is one of Debbie's greatest fears. But it is a reality for many married women after age 65. So she invited Suzanne, a new friend in coastal Maine, onto the show. Debbie wanted to learn more about how she is handling this difficult experience.
Suzanne's husband Don passed away in August of 2020 after what she calls a 46-year love affair. The early stages of grief were awful, she tells us. But then she realized she still had a lot of energy and wanted to do something with it. Thus was born her blog, titled Aging Fearlessly.
Suzanne has also created a new nonprofit, Maine Widows in Action, to support and educate widows who want to be change agents in their communities and beyond. It’s a perfect match for her background as a retired public interest attorney.
This is a nuanced conversation about loneliness, pain, bravery, opportunity, and practicality.
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When forced to make fundamental changes due to divorce or widowhood, unemployment or health challenges, we can wonder if it's too late to start over. It's never too late. Discover how YOU can do it.
Determined to not give up, Jennifer Arthurton found the courage to start over and become a Mindset mentor, Podcast Host, Speaker, ️and Writer who now inspires and supports other women who are navigating mid life.
Her business and podcast entitled Old Chicks Know Sh*t is what she wants the world to know - that women over 50 can design a life they love, AND leave an inspirational legacy.
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Life dealt Mary a cruel blow when her husband, her high school sweetheart and beloved father to her 2 boys, died of a sudden heart attack.
She lost per person and also her home.
With many similarities to my own story, I knew that I wanted Mary to join me as a guest and share how she navigated this heartbreaking time in her life.
Leaning on her Mom, her church and a bereaved adults group - she took the baby steps into living and loving again.
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