Podcast

A huge part of the work of widowhood is learning how to deal with the people around you. As we know, not everybody is going to think you’re making the best decisions, and it might feel like some [...]

Cognitive bias is important to understand for anyone, but when you’ve gone through something like grieving the loss of your person, it will have a huge impact on your ability to live a positive [...]

Trying to decipher where you are in the mourning process can be very confusing. The “five stages of grief” is one theory people circle back to, but these stages don’t actually apply to [...]

I hear from so many of my clients that, after the loss of their person, they find themselves struggling with their confidence levels. Sometimes they attribute this to having to do new things [...]

Now, I understand that when you see the title of this podcast, you might be thinking, “I don’t want to make friends with grief. I just want to get over it and be done.” And I totally understand [...]

After we’ve lost our person, deciding what to do with their possessions is a complicated process. We can feel like there are memories and emotions attached to the things they leave behind, and we [...]

After our person is gone and we’ve started to pick up the pieces of what is left, it’s not uncommon for you to find yourself asking the question “Who am I now?” I know I did. I still remember [...]

Grieving your spouse is an unthinkable experience, but when you also have children, the situation can easily become overwhelming. We think the stakes are higher because there are these other [...]

It’s easy to feel weighed down with all of the things we tell ourselves we have to do: clean the house. Take care of the kids. Lose weight. Start dating again. Clear out our husband’s [...]

Have you ever found yourself negotiating with the people around you and the events that occur in your life? I know I used to do this. When somebody has something unhelpful to say, it’s easy to [...]