Growth through Grief
Becoming a widower was not the life situation you ever thought you would experience, but here you are, facing a new day without your partner, with a family desperate for answers, a significant change in your identity and so much more. It can be overwhelming, but you don’t have to go through it alone.
Growth Through Grief is a community and resource site, here to provide you with the help needed, not just for kick-starting your healing journey, but providing a guide for growth and creating a new you.
Here you can learn from fellow widowers, mental health professionals, faith leaders and growth experts, and take advantage of tools, resources and community events, to help you transcend from loss and sadness to growth and purpose.
You are
not alone.
There are almost four million widowers in the United States, each uniquely dealing with their loss, sadness and grief, and all at different stages in their journey. Yet, we have a lot in common, and by sharing our stories, we can help ourselves and other through the healing process.
Growth Through Grief is a resource and community with a mission to help widowers, like you, turn loss and sadness into growth and purpose. To better help facilitate the journey, we have created a set of events, articles, tools, personal stories and interviews, all designed to help you learn from other widowers, mental health professionals, faith leaders and growth experts. These tools are for you to improve your mind, body and spirit and achieve growth through grief.
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GRIEF: A Journey To Growth
GRIEF is a framework developed to help you grow spiritually, mentally and physically through your healing process. To help, we took the word GRIEF and created a framework to help you grow from it, successively moving through this framework to help you become a new happier, healthier and more joyful version of yourself:
As you evolve from pain to purpose, for each step in the GRIEF process, we have created assessment and worksheet based tools which you can leverage for each step,
Mind, Body and Spirit Advice
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good. ― Elizabeth Edwards Grief is a universal human
Now is the time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. — John 16:22 Holidays like Mother's Day can be particularly painful reminders of the loss you have experienced and the person who is no longer with you. If
Grief is a journey that often requires support and guidance from others, and therapy can be an incredibly helpful tool for navigating the ups and downs of that journey. - Dr. Katherine Shear, Director of the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University The intense emotional pain, grief, and trauma can be
