EMOTIONAL & MENTAL HEALTH FOR WIDOWS
This month we have been focusing on putting our energy toward feeding our passions. I hope that you have been finding inspiration and meaning in this challenge.
For newer widows, parents who are new empty nesters, recently retired individuals, or those going through any number of other life transitions, it may be difficult to even know what you are passionate about when your focus for so long has been your marriage, your children, your career, or any number of other priorities that may recently have shifted.
Part of our identity, our personhood, is having passions, making our mark, and showing up with something to give ourselves and others. Loss of identity involves a shift in passions and can leave us feeling hollow and directionless.
Take heart, sisters and friends, because if you are living and breathing, there is passion to be found in this world again! But where can it be found?
First, do a self-scan of your mindset. Decide before you get out of be…
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