EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH FOR WIDOWS
This is my guy! He is funny, athletic, serious with a side of goofy and everyone likes him! Looking in from the outside you would never know that he lost his dad when he was just 6 years old. You wouldn’t know the impact that loss has had on his heart and how much he misses his daddy!
But I know his heart, a mother always does. I am the keeper of his heart and I take my job very seriously. If I could take away his pain and add it to mine I would do it in a heartbeat! But I can’t. Yet, I have to find a way to help him cope, move forward and live a happy life despite the pain. We as grieving mothers have to teach our children to “move forward” while we grieve the loss of their father. Not to mention, run a household, support our family financially, along with taking care of our children’s physical, emotional and spiritual well being (and somehow grieve and take care of our own needs). It seems like an impossible job. But just as a mother would take h…
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