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 and abandonment.   We consider women who are abandoned to also be a part of our sisterhood.   They too have experienced deep loss, they too are faced with a future they did not plan […]

*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 time to read this.  It could change your life and others you know.  Healed? from PTSD?  How is that possible?  First, how did it happen?  Over 15 years ago I was widowed.  My late husband […]

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 know how, and I don’t remember who, but the call came.  “Hey, my friend just lost her husband.  He was in an accident… can you talk to her?” “Of course.  Can you give me her […]

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 before.  It was honestly the one and only times in my life I had a connection with him.  I don’t remember everything about our conversations at that time, but I remember the understanding deep down […]