I am a widow and have been one for awhile now. I have felt the need to write about my own experience with grief and how I got though the first few difficult years while learning to live with it. What I have come to realize is there is a popular misconception that you will get over it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Grief is something you will live with for the rest of your life. What will change is the intensity and frequency. So do not get discouraged! There is something to feel hopeful about! You can use your experience to make you better or bitter. It all depends upon how you look at and deal with your grief!

So why write a blog? I have decided to write this blog, because I know there are people out there just beginning this process and wondering how they will survive one of the most difficult periods of their lives! After so many of my friends reached out to me to ask for my advice to pass on to those that they knew who had just lost someone, I started to realize I had something I could share to help others like me. I was a survivor at 45 after losing my own husband to cancer. I could give others hope and show them how I was able to learn to live with my own grief and how I used this experience to make me a better version of myself. That is what I hope this blog is able to do when people visit it and read the words I write.