🤔 What CHALLENGE(s) Are YOU Facing RIGHT NOW?

📎  Hi @dl72363359  , I HOPE you have been able to find some PEACE dear friend. Luv you SO MUCH and hope you will stop by AGAIN to see us. Nicole 🤗🤗🤗

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[*** @dl72363359 wrote: At the behest of my children I moved three months after my husband's death.  At the end of January I left Texas and  moved to Wisconsin. It's taken three more months  to recover from moving to a strange new place without my husband and a totally different climate 

And just as long to find a Church, as I'm a Christian.  All I want to do is nothing. Or cry. Or just sleep.  I lost my son the year before on July 4th to a massive heart attack. Loss and grief cannot be outrun. Are the things o am feeling  normal? ***]

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📎  Hi Carolyn @CarolynS674392 , I HOPE you have been able to find some PEACE dear friend. Luv you SO MUCH and hope you will stop by AGAIN to see us. Nicole 🤗🤗🤗

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[*** CAROLYN wrote: I am grieving my husband and also trying to assist my mother by cheering her up.  She is depressed and cries to me a lot.  I guess that's my role.  She doesn't complain to my sisters.  Today was a good day.  My dad and mom and I went to see my niece's artwork in a district-wide art show.  Then we had lunch out.  We don't go out very much but we should.  She seemed happy today.  I'm very glad. ***]

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📎  Hi Jen @tyMI95 , I HOPE you have been able to find some PEACE dear friend. Luv you SO MUCH and hope you will stop by AGAIN to see us. Nicole 🤗🤗🤗

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[*** JEN wrote: My mother passed away on 1/20. I think my biggest challenge right now is the ability to look in the mirror.  I mean, I've always known I look like my mom, but now, good gravy, with her passing all I can see is her in the mirror staring back at me. I guess a positive spin would be I'll always be able to see her, but for now, not so much. Jen ***]

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📎  Hi Eileen @EileenP559346  , I HOPE you have been able to find some PEACE dear friend. Luv you SO MUCH and hope you will stop by AGAIN to see us. Nicole 🤗🤗🤗

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[*** EILEEN wrote: There are so many challenges.  Practical challenges like having to call repair people.  And then the hardest challenge.  It has been 8+ months and I feel more in the throws of missing him than I did a few months ago.  And the challenge is that my friends and family pretty much don't want to hear it anymore.  They don't know how to comfort me anymore.  And I totally get it.  But they may have moved on but I haven't.  I still need to talk about him and my pain.  I am starting Grief Share again this Sunday.  I really hope that helps.  I need something to help.  I wake up in the morning and my first thought is of him and how much I miss him.  I go to bed and my last thought is also of missing him.  I know my story isn't unique and I feel for each and every one of you that is also going through this terrible grief. ***]

📎  This NEVER use to be on my mind but has been of late.

Worrying about dying BEFORE I make it back to Melbourne, Florida where my only child lives.

WE BOTH had moved here to Virginia from Florida. She HATED Virginia and moved back. I fell in LUV with Virginia and stayed.

Now at age 67 this year 2025, I know it is time to make my way back to Florida.

Wish me luck.  💛

I I lost a job, two college roommates and two young relatives to death and loss of a dear friendship all in a short period of time. It's been hard and painful. I walk in nature   to talk with God. The loneliness is overwhelming. I feel lost, numb and sad. I read alot, yoga and meet with friends. I tell myself this too shall pass.

📎  Sometimes the WEATHER can "affect" OUR MOODS & having a Plan B, C and so on "in place" for those NOT NICE weather days & nights is wisdom.  ‌👍‌

We can for example, go OUTSIDE and "dance" in the rain. Yes, being a kid again.  ‌😉‌

Or light a fire & sip hot chocolate while we read.

Do whatever "uplifts" you on those DREARY rainy or cold days.

Luv,

Nicole  ‌🤗‌‌🤗‌‌🤗‌  (Grief Forum)

📎  IF you are a FURBABY PARENT  🐈🐶, you know what I am talking about when I say the following.

Hug yours every chance you get as they NEED US AS MUCH AS WE NEED THEM.

Luv,

Nicole  🤗🤗🤗  (Grief Forum)

📎  As I AGE, I have come to "realize" the years of CHALLENGES have made me a DIFFERENT person.

IF we "ride" through them [tears,anger and so on], upon "arrival" at the END of all this - WE WILL BE FULL OF HOPE.  ‌‌‌‌‌‌💛‌‌‌‌‌‌

You got this my friends!!!

Luv,

Nicole  ‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌  (Grief Forum)