It happens more than anyone likes to admit.
When we lose a spouse to death, within a few weeks/months, we realize that we've lost all of their people, too.
Friends and family who were all there for us through the initial shock, have had to - or in most cases, were relieved to - return to...
The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale lists death of a spouse as the highest adult stressor we face in life. The list includes life events such as divorce, incarceration, retirement, and forty other life-changing experiences and rates them as to their perceived contribution to ill...
As a widowed mother of five teenagers, Canadian writer Alexandra Stacey was struggling with grief, anger, and fear. Learning to navigate her way back into the world of the living meant finding a way to create a whole new life: a life filled with strength, purpose, and hope.
A tall order.
Part of...
