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How to Support Your Widowed Friends – 4 Essential Tips
Guest blog by Anne Harris- April 26th, 2019. When a friend of yours loses someone dear, it’s important to show your friendship in their...
Widow Care Author
Apr 26, 20194 min read
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Blind Curves- From Corporate Suits to Motorcycle Leathers
Former Fortune-100 Executive, Breast Cancer Survivor & Widow, Linda Crill, will be featured in our April 17th Grief Speaker Series. Read...
Widow Care Author
Apr 9, 20193 min read
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Sweat Out Your Grief? Well...Not Literally.
I'm sure you've heard it all-- endless recommendations from family, friends and online articles telling you how to overcome your grief....
Widow Care Author
Apr 3, 20195 min read
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Montgomery County Senior Resources (Part 1- Transportation & Senior Center Programs)
We wanted to compile a list of free/discounted programs & resources that pertain to our senior members. Did you know that seniors and...
Widow Care Author
Mar 27, 20197 min read
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Estate Planning: What is it, and What do you do if your Spouse Passes Away without a Will?
Spousal loss is an extremely difficult tragedy, so we want to help make this process as easy as possible. We hope that our educational...
Widow Care Author
Mar 13, 20198 min read
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Eyes are the Windows to the Soul
They say the eyes are windows to the soul The mouth, a doorway to your thoughts & your goals. Have you drawn your curtains back and...
Widow Care Author
Feb 27, 20192 min read
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How to Protect Yourself from falling Victim to a Scam (Part 2)
Before reading this blog, consider reading Part 1, which provides a short introduction to common scams targeted at widow(er)s-- you can...
Widow Care Author
Feb 20, 20197 min read
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Love is in the Air? Let me plug my nose.
Written and submitted anonymously by a Widow Care member. After my husband died, I found that most days have some level of "suck". It's...
Widow Care Author
Feb 12, 20194 min read
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Surrender
"Surrender" was written by Mary Oves and originally posted on her blog "Be a Bada** Widow". Check out her other blogs here. It snowed...
Widow Care Author
Feb 12, 20192 min read
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How to Avoid Falling Victim to a Scam (Part 1)
Widows are often the target of scams, because scammers see their loss as an opportunity to profit off of their fragile emotional state....
Widow Care Author
Feb 6, 20197 min read
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Widow Care WMAL Interview
Check out our interview on the WMAL Senior Solutions Show with Eric Stewart. The audio can be found here (under "Our Mission", and you...
Widow Care Author
Jan 25, 20194 min read
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"Our moments fall around us like rain, or snow, or confetti."
One night I was watching TV and a character said something that really hit me. "I learned a secret. There's no without, I am not gone....
Widow Care Author
Jan 24, 20192 min read
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Widowhood: An Outside Perspective
Ramblings about my personal journey of learning to understand widowhood. Loss is not new to me. There are 7 widowed persons in my direct...
Widow Care Author
Jan 23, 20197 min read
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Widowed Finances: How to Budget after losing a Spouse
Budgeting: the basic building block of financial planning. The idea seems easy enough-- just set aside enough money to cover your...
Widow Care Author
Jan 21, 20198 min read
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Forget comfort recipes...here are quick recipe ideas for the grieving.
Am I the only one who used to roll my eyes at people when they suggested I eat my favorite "comfort foods" to cope with my loss? As if...
Widow Care Author
Jan 9, 20193 min read
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Social Security, State Pension, Taxes...oh my.
Who likes to fill out monotonous paperwork and endless forms? I definitely don't, and I doubt anyone does but that's the reality of...
Widow Care Author
Jan 3, 20195 min read
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Grief Etiquette: Unspoken Rules of Helping Widowed Loved-Ones
Many people wonder: how can I help my widowed friend? There are hundreds of articles (including a few on our own website) but many fail...
Widow Care Author
Jan 2, 20194 min read
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Grief's Physical Impact
Grief is often described as an empty feeling in the chest, or the deep sorrow that you experience following loss. Grief is somehow...
Widow Care Author
Dec 31, 20183 min read
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Bucket List
Written by Anonymous. My husband made a bucket list after he was diagnosed. He learned that his diagnosis was fatal, and he had a mere...
Widow Care Author
Dec 28, 20182 min read
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Help a Loved One Get Through the Holidays
Every person’s situation is different, but a common thread among widows and widowers is that the holidays can be very lonely and...
Widow Care Author
Dec 21, 20183 min read
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