Elaine Williams
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- Grief, loss, widow
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- Writer, Business owner, independent publisher
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- RWA, Intl. Women's Writing Guild, Women on Writing
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Something I Learned Last Year
I know when I started the year out fresh in 2007, I felt incredibly lonely. I had been widowed for over two years, and found that when a spouse dies and you’re no longer part of a couple, it seems to affect the dynamics of previous friendships. Married friends no longer kept in touch in quite ...
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Grief Is A Jou ey, Not A Destination
There are days you sit in a chair and stare out the window because living seems to take too much energy. Even to think about what to make for dinner is an all-consuming task. It can be daunting, feeling as if there is nothing in this world that will ever hold your interest again. The mail order ...
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A Fresh Jou ey Through Loss
The day I lost my husband my heart felt ripped out, a feeling I had never experienced before. I felt clarity in the moment and confusion over where I was going, all at the same time. I wanted to cry at the injustice of a widow at 47 years of age. I had three boys and they each needed their ...
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Stress as a Widow's Companion
Elaine Williams ©2008 Beginning a life as a widow was not an easy one for me, and whether you want it or not, it is a new life. Strange, alien, different from anything you have ever known. Many days I resisted any type of change, whether it was physical or emotional. I felt too tired ...
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Children Reacting to Grief
Elaine Williams copyright 2008 I have three boys who were 11, 18 and 19 when their father died from cancer. They all reacted differently to this loss, and many times I felt at a loss myself in trying to determine the best way to help them through their grief. My oldest son moved away from home ...
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Crafting a New Life as a Widow
Elaine Williams ©2008 When you become a widow your life changes and there is no guarantee of sanity in the transition. Some days are topsy-turvy; other days have a numbing calm. You wonder if life will ever be joyful again. You’re not crazy, you’re grieving. Joy has a way of ...
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Life After Grief
I became a widow at 47. I'd always thought my husband and I would be together forever, or at least a lot longer than 20 years. We have three boys, who at the time were 11, 18 and 19. I ran the gamut of emotions...shock, fear, an utter stillness of nothing, a frenzy of activity, and on and on. ...
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Women Opening Themselves To Empowerment
I've become empowered, in total and full control of my life, or most of it....there's always the thing that blindsides you when you least expect it. The thing is, I didn't ask, seek or want this new empowerment. I thought I was doing okay. Married 20 years, three beautiful boys (okay, they ...
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Dancing With The Demon Of Loneliness
I've danced with him many times, a reluctant partner, my steps stumbling and my mind preoccupied. He came in persuasive and smooth, barely causing a ripple with his subtle entrance. Other times he visited boldly, making his presence well known. For me, dancing with the demon of loneliness ...
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Dating Again. . .On the Far Side Of Forty
Due to life circumstances, the death of a spouse, I had been out of the dating game for some time and reentered the scene after a 27-year absence. I experienced what I like to call “culture shock”. One definition is as follows: “A state of bewilderment and distress experienced when suddenly ...
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A Single Mother Raising Boys
One of my biggest challenges has been raising three boys as a single parent. I've been told by other parents that it's easier to deal with boys than girls. Usually this comes from a parent who has all girls. I totally, wholly disagree. Where did anyone ever get that idea? Boys have their own ...
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If You Knew The Ending, Would You Change The Beginning?
The last two months of my husband's life I slept next to the bed Hospice had set up in our living room. At night, I lay on the loveseat I'd come to hate and listen intently to his labored breathing. It was what I did when my kids were babies—listen intently for the next breath to make sure ...
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www.ajou eywelltaken.com
A widow's jou ey through loss, grief and renewal
Contacting Elaine Williams
elainewilliams@onwingspress.com
Phone 518-628-4415
Fax 917-677-4802
OnWings Press
P.O. Box 100
East Jewett, NY 12424
How to get started
I am always on the look-out for new marketing ideas, other ways to get the word out to those who are on their grief jou
ey. I love to share my empowerment ideas with others, showing them what helped me move forward from a dark place in my life. I welcome new ideas and partnerships. Please feel free to contact me. I have a multitude of grief, loss and empowerment articles on my website. Thanks for visiting! Elaine
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I have review copies available of A Jou
ey Well Taken: Life After Loss and would be happy to forward the same, with appropriate press release, for review. Please contact me at onwingspress@yahoo.com