I have had the great honor in life of walking alongside many as they have experienced deep loss in their life. This was only since …
Navigating through the Journey of Loss
National Widows Day
Today is National Widows day. Part of the mission of Joy in the Mourning is to bring awareness to women who are widowed through death …
One year healed from PTSD
*trigger warning, some graphic details included* I hope my friends and family who have been watching my journey over the last 15 years will take …
Memorials and Gravestones
Today, two of the women I have an honor of walking in this journey with, this subject came up. Here’s the thing- no one wants …
Difference between tough & broken hearts
A couple years ago when I started thinking about starting a nonprofit I was talking to a woman who had one for people whose families …
The Call
15 years ago the call came. Newly widowed, poor… broken, afraid of everything, especially the future and everything it now did not hold. I don’t …
Losing a Loved one During Covid
When I was widowed at 19, the first person I had a true connection with was my grandfather. He had lost his wife 2 weeks …