June 6, 2023 by Geisinger Silver Circle
Geisinger Health System serves over half a million patients across multiple states in the Northeastern United States. The Circle is a magazine where you’ll get insights and events for members of Geisinger Silver Circle. They open this month’s edition by talking about grief and they gave the National Widowers’ Organization and
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March 27, 2023 by Time Magazine
New Article Reports, “Losing a Spouse Makes Men 70% More Likely to Die Within a Year” TIME recently reported the loss of a spouse can have negative impact. Known as the “widowhood effect” this article includes information from a new study that younger people—especially men—are even more at risk.
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March 27, 2023 by National Widowers’ Organization
The National Widowers’ Organization, a nonprofit formed in 2009 to help men deal with grief, announces the appointment of Kei Okada, MDiv, BCC, to the Board of Directors. Dr. Sherry Schachter, Vice-chair of the National Widowers’ Organization says about the addition, “I am so pleased
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March 21, 2023 by National Widowers’ Organization
The National Widowers’ Organization and Wings for Widows are collaborating to bring expanded resources to grieving men. Founded in 2018, Wings for Widows is a 501(c)3 charity, the first and only organization of its kind
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April 11, 2022 by Jan Tuckwood
What I learned from dating widowers The first widower I dated introduced me to his wife. She was six feet under. “Barbara, this is Jan,” he said, as we stood at her tombstone. “She’s come to take care of me now.” I gulped. I had
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October 13, 2020 by Jordon Ferber
“Death is an inevitable part of life, and yet it can be difficult and uncomfortable to talk about the process of grief amongst one’s peers. In this podcast comedian and bereaved sibling Jordon Ferber helps shine some light into the darkest parts of our own existence and encourage a more
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October 22, 2019 by Herb Knoll
“Widowers Journey Podcast” is part of a support network for men who have been widowed or lost a spouse or life partner. Author Herb Knoll discovered upon losing his wife to cancer, that there were really no support services available to grieving men. He
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July 30, 2019 by July 11, 2019 by Lisa Marshall, Reviewed by Neha Pathak, MD; WebMD News Special Report
“There has been this idea in the past that grief proceeds in the same somewhat lockstep sequence for everyone,” says David Feldman, PhD, a professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University in California. “We now know it just doesn’t work that way. People often attack themselves for doing grief
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February 19, 2019 by Darwyn M. Dave, Dealing With My Grief
Sam Feldman and Ken Levy are members of the National Widowers’ Organization. It’s an organization created by Sam to help men deal with their grief by talking about it with other men. We have a candid discussion about losing a spouse, finding companionship after loss and the act of moving
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April 24, 2012 by Patrick Phillips
Confounded by grief, people are literally at a loss for everything. The return from despair can be long, and the return always takes different paths. Sandy Broyard, Sam Feldman and George Cohn reflect on grief, bereavement and recovery and what the process may mean for others.
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