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.
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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Image source: Modern Widows Club, Impact Report 2011–2020. We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present.
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. - Jan Gildwell Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest stop. - Dodinsky Grief is the price we
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:34 Let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go into the invincible future with Him. - Oswald Chambers As we
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