103 The Rebellious Widow: A Practical Guide to Love and Life After Loss, with Jill Johnson-Young EPISODE OVERVIEW Jill talks about the impetus for writing her newest book, “The Rebellious Widow: Reclaiming Life and Love after Loss,” which came from the blogs she wrote...
It’s only a few days to the fourth Thursday in November, and here in the States that usually means the rush into Thanksgiving and then tumbling into Christmas or Hanukkah. That’s enough as it is, but when your family includes dementia it means really looking at what...
Jill is a grief expert, and she talks about options for the holidays. What if we can’t be together? What if we’ve lost loved ones due to COVID? How do we handle politics at the table? What about those struggling because they have lost jobs? How do we include them...
The night before I had major surgery I will admit I was nervous. Sleep was not going to happen. “Relax” was not in my vocabulary. And mindfulness and meditation took a walk together. I knew what was going to happen. I had all the information. I’d researched. I...
While we are experiencing the current pandemic in a variety of places and situation, some of the impact it’s having on many of us is almost a sense of not being able to be in touch with emotions about loss after so many deaths and so much news, and feeling almost...
