FUN AND CREATIVE HEALTH FOR WIDOWS
It was early September 2011, eight months after my husband passed away, and I was laid low by a gripping bout of grief. You know the kind, when the world seems entirely black and hope is just a four letter word. My usual attempts to deal – stepping up exercise and nutrition, prayer and meditation, allowing myself space to mourn – were having no measurable effect.
So out of the blue one evening, I called a girlfriend and practically bellowed into the phone, “Grab your purse. We’re going out to the new J.Crew. I need some retail therapy.” (We Canadian shoppers had long been anticipating the arrival of J.Crew north of the border with the first store opening just days before!)
A couple of hours later I emerged with a bright purple gingham shirt and cashmere cardigan to match – a few hundred dollars lighter and my spirits appreciably brighter. According to new research by Scott Rick and his colleagues at the University of Michigan, there may be some science …
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