by Betsy Dane | Sep 8, 2019 | Grief
After careful consideration, and with a tremendous amount of thought and introspection, I have decided that some of my feelings about the effects of the loss of my beloved husband have been misguided. Don’t get me wrong. There isn’t a day when I...
by Betsy Dane | Aug 27, 2019 | Grief
For those who have experienced the deep and profound loss of a loved one, we have been inundated with the words (some wise, some foolish) of our friends and family members on how to deal with things. For many of us, it is a difficult roller coaster ride of processing...
by Betsy Dane | Aug 17, 2019 | Grief, Moving On in Life
Recently I had lunch with an old friend whose dad passed away five years ago. His parents lived in a house in a small town in the Midwest for many years, and she is struggling with her “recovery”, her moving forward, after losing her long time...
by Betsy Dane | Aug 15, 2019 | Grief, Moving On in Life
One of the things I have learned through this journey called life is that there is an amazingly fine line between holding on to things that hold good memories and being a hoarder. When my father passed away over thirty years ago, while we had always considered my...
by Betsy Dane | Aug 12, 2019 | Grief, Moving On in Life
This past week I went “home” to Sarasota. We had lived there for fifteen years before moving to Tennessee together to semi-retire. It was the first time I had really gone anywhere without my beloved Tom (other than moving out west) and I traveled with a...