A Story I Didn’t Fully Understand as a Child As a child, I always knew I admired my grandmothers but never really realized all the reasons why until...
Widow Resilience and My Grandfather’s Murder
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How to Love Yourself After Loss
Understanding Life After Loss as a Single Woman Living as a single woman after having been in a long-term relationship is a major adjustment. How is...
Widows, What Do You Wish Other Women Knew About Widowhood?
When I first started my Health and Financial Wellness (HFW) for Women group here in Phoenix about nine years ago, I asked the initial gathering of...
Are You Buried or Planted?
Although I am not familiar with Christine Caine, an author and speaker focused on empowering women globally, I recently encountered a quote of hers...
Alone But Not Lonely, Why It’s So Important
I need to get better at writing down the sources of my favorite phrases and sayings (I have a notebook for those). Recently, I read (and did not...
Widowhood Stories: What Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong and Has Gone Wrong
One of my biggest lessons learned in the work world, when I first started working in finance, was that just because you did everything right, the...
The Solo Journey Challenge
By choice or otherwise, 90% of us women will be left solely in charge of our household finances. Whether you become suddenly single through divorce...
Love Your Family Even After You’re Gone
In this month of “love” I think it’s appropriate to share a blog from Pastor Jack, from Avondale Baptist Church in Arizona. He wrote a blog for his...