Resilience and Relationships
09/05/2017
“When asked to list an emergency contact number, how many of you have to stop and think about whose name and number to write down?”
Hands shot up all around the room when I asked this question at a recent conference break-out session. We were at Camp Widow™ and my program on “From Sorrow to Social” was filled with recently widowed men and women. Read the rest of this entry »
Hope, Resilience and Research
02/05/2017
Two widows walk into a hotel…
Sounds like the start of a joke, right? No joke here.
When Michele Neff Hernandez was widowed as a young woman she started Camp Widow™ and Soaring Spirits International so other widows, of any age, would have a place to focus on rebuilding their lives. Carrie West, another young widow was doing her Ph.D. research on resilience so the two teamed up. Read the rest of this entry »