PURPOSE AND MEANING FOR WIDOWS
In 2015, I wrote a blog about choosing to be happy in the midst of my grief. Little did I know how much of a struggle that would be and the healing process that I had to go through since my husband, Todd, died. It’s still very much true today as it was then.
CONNECTION is my word for 2018… and what that means to me is to CONNECT with what makes me happy. For myself, it is being grounded in nature (as I enjoy the sunset with bare feet in the grass in this pic) but more so, community. This is where my inner being comes alive!
I had two choices when Todd died… I could curl up in a corner because my love was gone and my entire existence as I knew it was over, or I could fight every single day for what I knew I was worthy of, which for me, is just simply being happy. Todd left an incredible legacy of being happy and fulfilled. I choose to stop at nothing in order to do the same. I shouldn’t feel guilty for being happy. Allowing myself to be happy is how I can l…
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