A family is like a body. When a family loses a loved one, it is as if they have lost one of their limbs. ~Quote from Grief Poems Grieving can be very challenging to navigate, even with professional support. But what do you do when your children are grieving at the same time? Today I…
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The Highly Unlikely Podcast Ep. 34
Losing a loved one is a difficult challenge. But parenting children through that same loss is even more challenging. It’s difficult to know what to do or the best way to navigate your way through it because for almost everyone who deals with this challenge, it is the very first time, and they have no…
Time Is A Powerful Healer But It Leaves One Hell Of A Scar
Today is four years since I lost my husband, Jason, to suicide. Four years, and yet, even as I say those words, I still have difficulty wrapping my head around what he did and the devastation that followed. Anniversaries used to mean something very different for me than they do now. They used to mean…
The Highly Unlikely Podcast Ep. 31
I have been fighting a terrible (NOT COVID) cold…yes, they still exist! But I couldn’t miss another week! This week marks a difficult anniversary for my family and me. So today I will be sharing some thoughts on time, grief, and healing, with a message for those who are taking their own grief journey and…
More Than Just Boots- A Gold Star Widow’s Perspective
It’s been almost four years since we lost my late husband, Jason. Since that time, most of his personal effects have been in storage because it was just too painful and overwhelming to even think about going through them. I started feeling like it was time to have them delivered and start working through this…
Day 1096
Today is the third anniversary of my husband Jason’s death. He took his own life on August 18, 2017, 1096 days ago, and our lives will never be the same. During this past Christmas, I started feeling very impressed that it was time for me to talk about Jason’s death and publish it on the…
Not So Fun Fact Time
Where A Highly Unlikely Life Began I would say “fun fact” time…but I don’t know how fun it is. Sad fact…probably. Sick and twisted fact..for sure. Not so much fun though. Let’s just stick with STORYTIME! I’m sure if you walked down the street and asked random strangers if their life turned out the way…
The Magical Shining Sink
The last few weeks have been chaos… There are so many things I cannot control in my life, choices made by the people I love being at the top of the list. Today, as I sat with work and school piled up around me, I could not concentrate on anything I really needed to do. …
Family Du Jour
Until today, the term “du jour” always meant “of the day”. Like the “Soup Du Jour”…mmm…I could really go for Panera’s Broccoli Cheese soup right now!!! It’s amazing and just thick enough to stick to your bread with all its cheesy awesomeness having a party in your mouth…but I digress. Today I learned a new…
A Highly Unlikely Hero…At Least an Unsung One
I attended my first ever military retirement ceremony recently. In nineteen years as a military spouse, I attended numerous military functions, ceremonies, balls, and mandatory fun events, but this was my first retirement. As someone who was never that military wife that learned all the acronyms, memorized my husband’s alphanumeric code that represented his job…