Kim Murray
Kim Murray learned more than she ever wanted to know about grief, loss, and solo-parenting when her husband died from Glioblastoma in 2014. Instead of allowing herself to disappear into the grief abyss, she set out to help other widows on their own grief journey by creating Widow 411 to offer a variety of useful resources to help make widowhood suck a little less (www.widow411.com). Kim is also a cofounder of the Widow Squad, an online community of widows moving through their grief in healthy, self-affirming ways (www.widowsquad.com).
Articles:
How Widows Can Improve Their Self-Talk and Move Forward with Grief
Self-Talk Matters Your internal dialogue and self-talk determine how you feel about yourself and how you act in the world. For widows, it’s especially important to understand how your self-talk promotes or prohibits healing after a spouse or partner dies. It’s not uncommon for widows to focus on negative thoughts because they’re overwhelmed with grief, realizing all the secondary losses that accompany the death of a spouse, and feeling the hopelessness of being suddenly solo. Widows often have lots of negative internal dialogue after their spouse or partner dies because death is devastating, and the self-talk in a widow’s brain […]
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