BW 070: Embracing Resilience: A Widow's Journey Through Radical Acceptance, Motherhood, and Self-Discovery
Dec 12, 2023Watch the video here or on YouTube; listen anywhere podcasts are played (Apple, Spotify, Google…)
The Transcript is below.
Content warning: Death, PTSD
: Sierra Hayre Sierra is an author and illustrator and a mother of three and her children were young when her spouse passed. And we have a great conversation about radical acceptance. Of grief and of a new way of living.
And we talk about her journey into creating the new version of herself and, and rediscovering who she's going to be in this next chapter of her life. I think you'll really enjoy her story..
Sierra Recommend:
- What have you done for yourself today? Write it on your mirror, put it on a post it note next to your coffee pot, or your children's lunches, or on your steering wheel, like, What have you done, or what will you do for yourself today,''
- Find support
- Being around a new environment and new opportunities.
Quote:
''The best days that I've ever had are not in the past, but they're forward.
And I'm going to continue to move forward, um, and just take him and his legacy with us.''
''What have you done for yourself today? Write it on your mirror, put it on a post it note next to your coffee pot, or your children's lunches, or on your steering wheel, like, What have you done, or what will you do for yourself today,''
''I had to accept that I was not going to be the person I was when I was married. I am a new person now. I, I have to accept that. I'm not going to possibly enjoy the things that I used to or like doing the things that I used to.But who's this new person? So I had to find out who she was. Without my spouse, ''
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Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones
I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary. Nathan and I have four beautiful children together. My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him. With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future. I want to help others do the same, too!
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