BW 144: No One Talks About This: The 4 Seasons of Widowhood You Must Know

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Widowhood isn’t just about grief recovery—it’s a journey through different seasons of healing, rediscovery, and transformation. 

 

You’ve heard about the five stages of grief (which wasn’t created for widows); now learn about the four seasons of widowhood.

 

In this episode, I break down the 4 Seasons of Widowhood and what you need to know to move through them with confidence and clarity.

 

🚀 You'll learn:
✅ The hidden emotional shifts that happen in each season
✅ Why grief isn’t a straight path—and how to navigate setbacks
✅ The biggest challenges widows face (and how to overcome them)
✅ How to stop feeling stuck and start rebuilding your life with intention

 

If you’ve ever felt lost, overwhelmed, or unsure of what’s next, this episode will give you the roadmap you need. 

 

🎧 Listen now and take the next step toward healing, hope, and a future you love. 

 

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and Upcoming Challenge

01:29 The Four Seasons of Widowhood

06:57 Season One: Devastation

13:27 Season Two: Desperation

24:11 Season Three: Exploration

31:22 Season Four: Creation

34:34 Conclusion and Resources

 

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Emily: [00:00:00] hey, and welcome to episode number 144 of the Brave Widow Show. If you are listening to this podcast or you are watching it fairly real time, I'm hosting a free three day challenge called the Grief to Growth Challenge. It will be over April 8th through April the 10th at 11:00 AM Central time, and I would love to see you there.

You can sign up by going to brave widow.com and using the link on that page. I am going to teach you why it is that you feel stuck in grief, why you feel guilty going through this whole grief and re rebuilding process, and essentially help give you a roadmap for how you move forward through grief.

Through rebuilding a life that you can love again, and I would love to see you there. So join me. Go to brave widow.com to sign up. Now let's jump into this week's episode.

So everyone, this is gonna be episode number 144.[00:01:00] 

Of The Brave Widow Show, and I am doing this live for the first time intentionally. I have had a couple of podcast episodes published unintentionally after live. They weren't planned that way in advance, but I'm happy to shake it up and do something a little bit different this time. Today I'm gonna be talking about the Four Seasons of

widowhood. So we all have heard about the five stages of grief. Most of us have heard about that. Elizabeth Kubler Ross did some amazing work to outline the five stages of grief. But the challenge is that as widows or as people in grief, a lot of times those five stages don't resonate with us. It just feels I'm not angry.

Does that mean I haven't gone to that stage yet, or I haven't come to acceptance or. I am in disbelief [00:02:00] and acceptance at the same time. This is weird. How is that even possible? So the five stages of grief were actually created. For the person who is given a terminal diagnosis or for someone with a terminal illness, and it really was to illustrate their journey of moving towards acceptance of that diagnosis and acceptance of their own mortality.

So if the five stages of grief have not resonated with you. Guess what? They weren't made for you. If you're a griever, the five stages of grief were not meant for you. But I like having a roadmap. I like having a blueprint and an idea of what this journey should look like, because when I was first widowed in 2021, I felt really lost.

I didn't resonate with the five stages of grief. I didn't resonate with what [00:03:00] other people were saying. And I would get all sorts of conflicting feedback from people like, oh, there's no finish line in grief. It's never gonna be over. Or, oh, this is just something, you just have to learn to deal with it.

You just have to learn to carry it on your shoulders. It never gets better. And that was super discouraging to me. As a widow to hear that there's no finish line in grief and it's never gonna be over. And all I could do is wonder is this the rest of my life? Like really, this is gonna ha how I'm gonna feel the rest of my life.

But then I would look at other people and they had it, it seemed they had found happiness again. It seemed that they were enjoying their life again. And so that left me feeling really confused. Other people would say oh, just give it time and you'll magically just start to feel better on its own.

But thank [00:04:00] goodness, one of the things that I learned. When I got certified through Grief Recovery Institute is that the key to recovery and grief is action, not time. So if you're here with me today and you're a griever or you're a widow, or you're someone who's just waiting on time to make it better on its own, that's not gonna happen.

Time is an ingredient. Of how we start to feel better. Time compounds what we're doing. So if we're taking action, if we're healing, we're processing, we're growing, we're trying new things, yes, time compounds that, and time grows more and more of that. And so over time in that way, things do get better.

But I've talked with many widows. You can even listen to one of the previous podcast episodes with Soia. She's a great example of somebody who waited four years, waited for years to start feeling better through [00:05:00] grief, and she actually ended up three years later feeling worse than she felt when her husband had initially died.

And so time alone is not. What is going to heal you or what is gonna make you feel that you have recovered or processed grief. But as I have learned, as I have experienced myself, as I have helped coach other widows and other grievers, I was able to outline my own stages of widowhood, if you will. And then in sharing them with other people, they said, really these are like seasons.

Just like seasons. Just like now we're experiencing spring. Maybe some of you, depending on where you are in the world, or you might be like me, in Arkansas, we have a fake spring. A teaser spring where one day it's 70. The next day it's like 40. I'm gonna go see a friend next week and it's gonna be snowing.

You're not always perfectly in [00:06:00] one season or in one stage. You might be transitioning from one season or one stage to the next. And so what I wanna share with you is what you can expect as you move from a place of grief and you move from a place of devastation to a place of growth and to a place of healing.

And the goal is to give you a sense of hope. To normalize what you have experienced already, to normalize what you may experience in the future and to give you hope that you can love your life again. You can experience joy and a fullness of life more so than maybe you even believe is possible Now. Okay, so let me share with you our four seasons.

So our first season of widowhood I call devastation, which also think about it as like survival mode. Okay? You [00:07:00] have just experienced this loss. You world is shattered. I think about it like if a tornado had blown through your neighborhood or if a bomb went off in your neighborhood and you're looking at everything around you, and things look the same, but also everything has changed.

The grief feels raw, overwhelming, and exhausting. The simplest of tasks feel so impossible. You may experience brain fog, which makes it really hard to make decisions to think clearly. One story that I love to share is. In the first few weeks after my husband had died, I was gathering up all the important paperwork to give to my attorney to take through probate, and I remember [00:08:00] sitting in my office floor, I had a home office at the time, and I was separating like all the pages of important papers, and I had specifically put my car titles in one spot.

And when I came back into my office the next morning to gather up all the papers to take to the attorney's office, I could not find those car titles. I would spend hours over the next couple weeks looking for these car titles. I felt like I was going crazy. I flipped through every single piece of paper, one page at a time, all the files, all the boxes, all the folders.

I looked in trash bags. I looked outside of the trash can. I looked everywhere for these car titles, and I would find them one. Year later, across my house, in the kitchen, in a silverware drawer that I like never used. [00:09:00] Now, how in the world did I go from setting aside car titles, putting them in a specific spot, and then thinking I needed to carry them in the kitchen and put them in a silverware torque?

I have no idea, but that's what it's like when you're first experiencing being a widow. You feel numb. Lost or essentially like you're in survival mode and if you have ever had the experience of having a newborn who doesn't sleep at night, maybe you're only getting a couple hours of sleep at night, you know that sense that you're just a zombie and you're walking through life and you're going through life, and life is like happening around you, but your whole world is completely different.

So when you are on this, when you are in this first season of widow Hood, so again, this is what I call devastation or survival [00:10:00] mode. What we wanna do in this season is first of all, give yourself permission to grieve, give yourself grace, and allow yourself to lower the expectations that you have for yourself.

I am a big, I'm a high achiever. I'm very goal oriented. I'm the person that, my family depended on me. My thousands of employees depended on me. Everyone depended on me. And so I was used to doing whatever it took to just get things done, like I could do anything. But when I was in my early days of grief, I felt a lot of shame.

I felt a lot of guilt because all of a sudden I was struggling to do things that I could have done in my sleep before my loss. That would've just been so easy and like I, I [00:11:00] should be able to do my laundry. I should be able to mow the lawn. I should be able to do all of these things, and now all of a sudden I can't even keep up with a pile of papers.

I can't even keep up with the fact that I need to get the tires rotated on my car. I'm having to use post-it notes and reminders on my phone and appointments on my calendar because I just I can't focus, I can't keep up. I can't even watch a TV show. I. So during this season of widowhood, you wanna just give yourself a ton of grace.

You want to lower the expectations for yourself, and you want to accept all the help that you can from other people. Other people will say let me know if there's anything you can do to help. If you need anything, let me know. And as a grievers, we know that's actually not helpful.

In fact, it puts the burden on us to come up with what this person could do. So if this is you're in the first stage of widowhood. I actually have a free [00:12:00] checklist for you. It's a very detailed checklist of things that you like, ideas of things that people could do to actually help you, whether it's.

Giving you a DoorDash gift card, whether it's mowing your lawn, doing your laundry, taking your kids shopping for Christmas, like there are so many ideas on there of ways that people can help you, that you can look at the list, you can decide what it is that you want help with, or you can give that list to friends and family and say, Hey, if there's anything on here that you'd be willing to do, please let me know.

And you can get that, all of that totally for free. On my website, brave widow.com/start. S-T-A-R-T. Okay, so that's season one. Devastation. You're in survival mode. At this point, you're just trying not to drown. You're trying to breathe, you're trying to survive. And although people need a lot of help during the [00:13:00] season, sometimes we just get swallowed up with all of the to-dos and the paperwork and the notifications that we struggle to just be able to get a lot of anything else done.

So if that's, that, hey, guess what, you're normal. And there's another season that is coming. Okay, season two I call desperation or maintenance mode. So for me, and everybody's timeline is different, and I know that's aggravating to hear and I could explain why. But for time purposes today, I'm just gonna reiterate that everyone's timeline is a little bit different.

So season two is desperation. This is when you're in maintenance mode. And so for me. This was about six months to a year out, and I had this realization of, okay, I'm in this new routine. I am, I have my feet underneath me a little bit. [00:14:00] Wow, is this gonna be the rest of my life? It was super deflating and discouraging.

This was the season where I wondered if it was. Ever gonna be possible to love my life again? To even enjoy life? Like on a scale, like a joy scale of one to 10. The maximum I was able to feel at that time was like a five. And it was scary to me. It was scary because I was 30 at this time, I was 38 years old, and I was like, how am I gonna live another maybe 40?

Maybe even 50 or more years, and this is the rest of my life. Seriously, this I felt like a hollow version of myself, like a shadow of the vibrant person that I used to be, and I felt like [00:15:00] time had pressed pause. For me and for where I was, but for everyone else, it was just rushing by, like for everyone else, life was just going on and I was just stuck in this weird dimension of a horrible reality and this was my new life.

So when you're in season two and you're in this maintenance mode, and you're in desperation, you are functioning, you're going through the motions, you're powering through as people say. But everything feels dull. Loneliness often hits the hardest around this season. By this point, family and friends have faded away.

I read a statistic somewhere and I cannot find it again, so I, sorry. I cannot credit who it, wherever I got this from, but I read a statistic that widows will lose 75% of their social circle in the first year, [00:16:00] 75%. Now for most widows that I talk to, it's actually probably closer to 90 or 95%. But it's incredible that in that first year, you lose family and friends of people around you.

You are questioning your purpose and your identity. Who am I now? What's the point of living? Now, I often wonder what is the point of even having. Dreams or having goals when he's not gonna be here to witness them. Okay, so I had a goal and I achieved it, great, but my person isn't gonna be there to see it, so won't that just make me more sad than if I never had achieved that goal.

I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I wanted. I didn't even want the same things that we wanted before. Like we had wanted to retire on a thousand acre ranch, right? [00:17:00] This is a big dream. We wanted to have a huge ranch out in the middle of nowhere, horses, cows, all of the things. And I just remember thinking to myself like, Ugh, do I wanna do that now?

It sounds romantic and nice when you're with someone, but by myself, like that would be really overwhelming. I don't want that anymore. I don't even care about that anymore. And so the second season is really lonely. Family and friends often wait for you to go back to normal. They're waiting for you to go back to the person that you were.

Maybe your employer is waiting for you to go back, or your church is waiting for you to go back to normal and be the person that you were before. But on the inside, you're screaming like, that is never gonna happen. I'm not the same person I was. I don't even know if it's possible to go back to the same person I was.

So what I tell widows who are in this season, or Grievers who are in this season, is to think [00:18:00] of your old life as being a pile of ash. Like your old life is gone. There is no going back. And it might sound harsh, and it might sound cruel. But it's said from a place of love, your old life is gone. Now we have to, we get to rebuild something new.

You can still build something beautiful and amazing and fulfilling for the future, but no one is coming to save you. You. Are going to have to be proactive and to rebuild it yourself. It took me a really long time to figure out that was the reality and that was actually like normal. This is where a lot of widows get stuck.

So when people say they get stuck in grief, a lot of times it's in this season or it's like transitioning from season two to season three. But [00:19:00] people feel like things are pointless. Hopeless. They're discouraged and they feel like everyone's just forgotten about them. So what we do in season two to start moving out of season two and to move towards season three, we wanna first rebuild our structure and routine.

So this is gonna help us with brain fog. This is gonna help us with feeling like we have our feet underneath us. We have a routine that sustains us and some people don't like a lot of structure. Some people don't like a lot of structure. They don't like, having every hour planned out. That's not what I'm talking about.

Talking about having a routine where it feels like, for the most part, what's gonna happen through the day or throughout the week. If you have a list of things that need to be done, you can prioritize them. Calendar them. You can get those things done. You don't feel like you're just being smacked around by grief and you are [00:20:00] just subject to everyone else's demands on you.

The paperwork the attorney wants, the bills that have to be paid, the person who wants you to babysit their child or whatever. You aren't just a victim to what everyone else wants from you, but you have control over your schedule. Over the things that you are focused on and it's done in a way that supports you.

Also, in this season, we need to find a support system, and this is crucial. So some widows feel like, Ugh, I just, I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready to go to a group. I'm not ready to go to therapy. I'm not ready to talk to other widows. I just need more time. But here's the reality. As I shared earlier time on its own does not heal your wound, so I know that you're hurting.

I know that it feels super overwhelming and hard, and at the same time, [00:21:00] grief and emotional pain can be as urgent as a physical wound or physical pain. So if you break your arm, you seek medical care. Immediately, typically, and if you don't, yes, your broken arm, depending on how bad it is, depending on the type of break and all of that, it might heal on its own.

It would probably take a lot longer. You're gonna be subject to infection, all kinds of stuff. And if it heals back in a funky way, it may actually have to be re broken and reset in order to heal. And overall it's just a much more complicated healing process. So just as if you have a physical wound or a physical injury, you immediately seek medical care.

As someone who's grieving or someone who's a widow, you want to immediately seek help from an [00:22:00] emotional support structure, from emotional healing and processing perspective. And even though your mind and your brain might be telling you, it's too soon, I'm not ready, I'm not ready, I'm not ready. The longer that you put it off, the more.

Triggering events you may come across the more difficult it may be for you. So in season two, it's important that we find a solid support system of other people who have gone through a similar journey or who understand how it impacts you. No one can understand your unique relationship and exactly how you feel, but as a widow.

My heart can go out too, and I can understand the pain of another widow, and I can be there for that person in a way that someone who's never experienced that might struggle with. Also, in season two, we wanna start exploring who you are now or who you want to be. [00:23:00] So even though it might feel hopeless, it might feel pointless.

It might feel like, why would I even do this and my person's not gonna be here. What we wanna do is we wanna hold on to this tiny seed of faith that it is possible to have a life that you love again, N and for widows or grievers who are like, I can't believe that. I will believe it for you.

I will hold space and I will believe for you, so you can borrow my belief that it is possible to have a life that you love. Again, you just need a tiny little seed, like the tiniest belief. Even if you think I don't know. I don't know how, but I do believe that some way, somehow it's possible. It's important here that you believe that even if it's the very tiniest seed.

Or if you need to use my belief that it's possible and [00:24:00] lean on me, that's fine. Okay, so as we're moving into season three, this is a season of exploration or what I call discovery mode. So we start to have a little bit of hope that we can love our life. Again, we start to be curious about who we are and what we might wanna do and what we might enjoy and what we might want for the future.

And this is also the area. As we're coming out of season two and going into season three, most widows find me somewhere in here. They're either in season two or season three, and most widows come to me and it's, I've tried therapy, I've tried grief groups, I've tried, the books, the courses, all of those things.

They did help me. But now what am I supposed to do next? How like. Is this it? What do I do now? It's not grief groups and therapy is not helping me move forward and create like this [00:25:00] next version of my life, whatever that looks like. So in season three, an exploration, this is all about trying things that are new because we're gonna, we gotta figure it out together.

And this is very much you walking through a trail in a forest and you can't see the end. So it requires us to step out blindly in faith, to try new things, to go to new places, to meet new people, to start to build new friendships and new connections to. Try out new hobbies or classes, or put ourselves in situations to see what's really resonating with us.

And this is the stage where we feel like a toddler, like we're taking a step forward. And then we're we feel the grief, we feel the sadness that our person isn't there. We try something new. We go out to a comedy show and we laugh [00:26:00] and we have a wonderful time, and then we feel guilty. How can I laugh and how can I have a good time when I'm missing my person so much and I just wish I could talk to them one more time.

Okay. So what I teach widows to do is to expand their capacity, to expand, their ability to hold. Two things true that feel opposite, but are true. So one is I love my life that I had. I love my person. I honor and appreciate the time that I had and I love my life now, or I want to love my life now. I want to build something new, and just because I want to do this doesn't take away I.

From how I feel about the past. And so a lot of times in this stage, this is where we feel a lot of guilt, a lot of guilt for wanting to rebuild, for trying new things, for meeting new people. Sometimes this is where widows may [00:27:00] start wanting to date again. Sometimes it may just be forming new friendships.

It may just be like, oh, I had a, I have a client who had a spouse that was home bound. And had a difficulty tr like couldn't go travel, couldn't go out, couldn't go do things. So as she started now to be able to travel and do new things, there was a lot of guilt. Oh, are people gonna think I'm just out here having the time of my life now that my person's gone?

Oh, look at her. She's going here and going there and doing all these things that she couldn't do before. I bet she's happy that he's gone. We just feel all this guilt and shame that doesn't need to exist. So I teach you how to navigate all of this. This is a messy part of. Healing of growing, of just embracing it all.

The sadness, the joy, the excitement, the curiosity, the wonder like there's so many emotions that [00:28:00] happen in this season and I teach you not how to make it easy, where you never feel those things, but how in the world you navigate them. How you get out of the negative swirls of thought of, oh, what are people gonna think?

And I shouldn't be doing this and I should be doing that. And all of the expectations that we think other people have for us. I teach you how to navigate that. So in this season, you're curious about trying new things. You may feel guilty for laughing again or trying to rebuild your life.

Glimpses of joy, but grief is still very much present and it feels it's a very awkward kind of a phase, but it also can be exciting because you can start to see signs that you're moving forward. So what we wanna do in this season is give ourselves permission to explore without guilt. To figure out who we wanna [00:29:00] become now, what are the things that we want in our life, and to be a little adventurous.

So this season can be really fun, and it can also be really difficult if you don't have a guide, because it can be very confusing. You can feel lost and you can give up. Because those first few times, like I started going to real estate investor meetings because I wanted to learn about real estate. I didn't really know much about it and I hadn't ever invested.

So I felt like a fraud wanting to go to these meetings. Like, why would I go to a real estate investor meetings? I'm not an investor, right? What are people gonna say? What are they gonna think? Are people there? Nice? Are they snobby? I don't know. And so in this. Phase. It can feel fun to be like, oh, I've always wanted to try this.

But then there's a lot of fear because I haven't gone there and I don't know the people. And where are the bathrooms and who am I gonna sit by and are they gonna be nice? Are they gonna judge me? What if they're all like multi-billionaires and I'm the only person there that's never done any of this.

Like [00:30:00] having someone to guide you through this season is incredibly valuable because they can help. Normalize some of the things that you're experiencing and also give you ways to get out of all those swirling thoughts of doubt and fear, negativity, and all of that. So this is where I help most widows is season two, season three, we are taking small risks with new hobbies with, I teach people how to meet new people and make friends, even if you're a hardcore introvert.

Even if you're a homebody, even if you hate small talk and you don't know what to say, even if you're an awkward person, I can help you. I can help you make new friends, make new connections. We also wanna surround yourself in this season with people who are encouraging growth, and unfortunately, a lot of times that's not our family and friends, so a lot of times this.

Might be new people that you've [00:31:00] met. It might be people who are on a similar journey as you or who have similar interests, but these are people who are going to encourage you to grow, not put you down for trying.

Okay. And then season four, this is where we are thriving. This is the season of creation or what I call manifestation mode. And I know there's a lot of, things going on online right now about manifestation and some people might feel like it's a little too woowoo for me, but by definition, what we're talking about here.

Is determining what it is that you want to create and bring forward in your life. So this isn't about just surviving anymore, this is about truly living and truly thriving, about stepping into your confidence. So at this stage, your confidence has returned. You've learned how to rebuild it. We learned that typically in season three.

So we're [00:32:00] learning how to rebuild our confidence. You're learning how to trust yourself with decisions you make or with trying new things. You're setting goals, you're creating new dreams, and you are accomplishing them. So I've had clients who have published books who've started a business, who've changed careers, who've gotten remarried, who have a baby on the way, who are.

Just who are breaking years and generations of family dysfunction and trauma because they want something better for their family and future generations, like people that are doing really big things and typically they're in this season or they're getting very close to this season, you still miss your person and you still may feel that you want to have a conversation with them, but.

Instead of waves of sadness instead of waves, of sorrow that brings you to your [00:33:00] knees. Those waves are now waves of gratitude and love for the time that you had together. Yes, I still get that feeling in my heart Ugh, I wish I could talk to him one more time, or I wish that, I could just, he could see, he could just be here and see what all is happening, but I feel that for a little while.

And then I'm happy and I'm fulfilled knowing that I'm grateful for the time that we had together. It doesn't control me or bring me to my knees anymore. You have created now your own new identity, and you are owning it. You are starting to build a life that you love and that you enjoy and that you can truly, authentically feel excited about.

In this stage or in this season, you may also be helping other people who are earlier on in the journey. And for some people that's very rewarding to be able to help encourage and help others [00:34:00] along who are earlier on in their journey. So just to recap our four Seasons of Widow Hood, season one is devastation.

We're in survival mode. Season two is desperation, which is maintenance mode. Season three exploration. We're in discovery mode. And then season four is creation where we are in manifestation mode. And then as a final thought, what I would just share with you is that. What I teach is that widowhood isn't about moving on.

And I know people get very I don't wanna say triggered, but people get very touchy about people saying, move on, moving on. But what I teach is that widowhood and the seasons and this journey is about moving forward in a way that honors your past and also embraces your future. Which season are you in right now?

I would love to know. For those of you who are gonna [00:35:00] be listening or watching the replay, or you're listening or watching the podcast that's gonna come out on Tuesday, I think April 1st, if I've got my dates right as you're listening to this, I'm hosting the free three day challenge. Of moving from grief to growth.

That will be April 8th through the 10th at 11:00 AM Central time. Each day we have a free private Facebook group that you can join. I'll be in there helping to coach people. And then of course I'll be teaching and coaching live those three days. I would love to see you there. To sign up, you can just go to brave widow.com and you'll find the link to sign up right there on the homepage.

Also for our members who are part of the Brave Widow membership community, I am gonna be hosting a group session of the Grief Recovery Method. Grief Recovery Method is the only evidence-based grief [00:36:00] recovery program. That. Is evidence-based. So it has been demonstrated by Kent State University to actually truly help people process grief and.

This isn't to say that you're gonna be fully healed in eight weeks and everything's great and wonderful, but for me, this ha, and what I have seen in taking many widows through this program is that this helps to close a lot of the open loops that are. May be out there. So this helps to resolve all of the unsaid communications, the unmet hopes, dreams, and expectations that you may have had about the future, and really help with this feeling of guilt, of shame, of all of the things that we wish we could say.

Just one more time. To our person. I cannot say enough great things about Grief Recovery method, and I would love for you to be part of that. To be part of that with [00:37:00] this program you need to be part of the Brave Widow Membership community, and you can do that by going to brave widow.com/join, and I would love to see you there.

All right, that's all that I have for today. So thank you to everyone who joined me live. This was really a lot of fun, and thank you to everyone who will be watching or listening to the replay. I would love to know what. Season of Widow Head that you're in, you can send me an email, [email protected].

Let me know what season you're in and your thoughts about how you transition to that next season. 

 

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