Stop Using These Five Excuses

Stop Using These Five Excuses

After a life-changing event, finding the energy to stay physically fit is difficult. It’s easy to find an excuse to avoid staying healthy. Whether your life-changing event is a divorce or the loss of a spouse, the emotions you’re dealing with can easily drain...
What It Means to Take Care of Yourself

What It Means to Take Care of Yourself

As you make your way through the grieving process after losing your spouse, others may say to you, “Take care of yourself.” But what does that really mean? Taking care of yourself is a way to put yourself first with self-love. It’s a necessary step towards healing,...
How to Be Social Again After Mourning

How to Be Social Again After Mourning

When your spouse dies, it’s challenging to think about being social again. Initially, you’re mourning and taking care of urgent matters. You’re learning to function without your partner to help with household chores and financial issues. As time progresses, your good...
Finding Work After Losing Your Spouse

Finding Work After Losing Your Spouse

Through my practice, I work with individuals who recently lost their spouse. It’s difficult to watch someone struggle with grief while facing the realities of their financial situation. Often, they may be in a situation where there isn’t enough income to support the...
What to Do When Your Spouse Dies

What to Do When Your Spouse Dies

At some point, your spouse may die, or someone you know will become a surviving spouse. We don’t like to think about it, but it’s part of life.This life-changing event is flooded with emotions. And yet, you will be responsible for making easy and complex...