This is a place for all broken grieving hearts to come, its my safe haven and I share this with all of you to be your safe haven. I am hoping through my journey of grieving as well as my real life experiences through grieving I can help all through their darkest hours, to ease the pain a little less, to maybe just give an ear to listen because sometimes that's all we need.


I am willing to bare all to each and everyone who comes to this blog. I want no one to be shy of anything. I want anyone to ask question's, tell their stories with pride. No one will judge you, or think you are different. We are all here going through the same thing GRIEVING. This is my safe haven, your safe haven. The place to heal, to find your smile again. Through this all I am on a journey to writing a book as well "The Grieving Path To Joy".

Aug 15, 2015

All The Single Craze

 


You ever find yourself wondering at the most weirdest of hours in the night when you should be sleeping you find yourself in a state of terror and wonder to yourself as you gaze at the ceiling knowing that sleeping is so much more important than thinking of as to why you are here gazing into space in a terror state of mind thinking "oh my gosh, I am single, what if I never meet anyone"?.  Now I know for sure that if I am in bed at the wee hours of the morning in terror of this question that there definitely are others.  So much thought goes into "is it me?", "am I setting off a vibe?". 
 
 
 

It seems we tend to turn that deep dark secret towards our self when in actuality that question shoots both ways.  The fact that we most women are stressing in odd hours of the night should be turned around and asked to ourselves "are there any men out there thinking of this exact question as we do at this time of night with a feeling of as though the ceiling may cave in"?  For me personally the fact that most women I believe stress more than men on this topic is for the purpose of merely setting ourselves up a force field of prolonging the meeting the right man as most would say even longer. 
 
 
 
Have you ever noticed about anything in life the more you stress of something,  the more away you feel from what you are stressing of even when you do not think you are.  It's as though you create a invisible barrier for the positive to break through in the constant negative thoughts of always wondering if the problem of anything you stress of is because of you.  I say drop the stress and wear your dress, love you, be comfortable and content in the space of being with you alone, laugh, smile, know in you that you are love, beautiful, and worthy of the greatest you always thought you deserved, that even though single that is just a word and being single don't mean you can't,  it just means your waiting and not settling for less. 

 


I remember in my late nights of stressing this "single dilemma" I would write, write of what it was I was thinking and write what it was I can imagine in another partner.  Qualities, characteristics, anything and everything you could of thought of as you felt a frantic attack come over you as you pondered the thought you'd never find that special someone.  However I do believe having another in your life does not make you a whole person, that you are whole on your own, the companionship to just have someone to laugh with and share your dreams with and give love is very special, to know what we can give takes all to another level. 

 


Yet as a single we have to know that it is ok, to be comfortable in our own skin, to love ourselves, before another can just for the pure fact that if we love all of ourselves we will then be guaranteed that the bar we set will most definitely be met but only after we drop that stress and wear our dress and conquer our world in the now with no thoughts of what if or into the future we know is unknown for now.  You don't like the drop the stress, wear a dress then drop the stress and no hot mess. 

 


A worldly topic that you look for to grasp so many answers,  yet to each and every opinion comes totally different answers, it just means that to the answer "why am I single"?, there really is no clear true one answer.  To look into yourself and know that the deeper of thought along with thinking secretly creates the prolonging of the coming into your life.  Positive you, with no stress opens a world wind of all to come at the moment of your surprise, out of the blue when noticing you have dropped the stress of the question and let go of the answer, to see in front of you to a total shock to your life your answer has stepped into your life.

Fact:  No stress + Set Free = Letting it IN

 
 
 
 
 

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Dance/Sing like No One is Watching



Well today I had to stop to laugh about my choices of songs always stuck in my head, "Feel Like Making Love", as well as "Lets Get It On".  That got me to thinking well is there something wrong with the songs stuck in my head?, to start thinking of that taboo "sex" word that should always be kept in silence, thinking of have we really as a society grew away from those olden days where "sex" was taboo?, and too even sing about it in public is a greater taboo to you as well as something bad as a person for always having those special tunes singing bliss in my head that makes me smile and laugh every time. 
 
 
 
I think to myself if it makes you laugh and reach beyond the stresses of life than who and what is it hurting.  As I look around to the rush of the world I say to myself "these people need to stop and break out a tune and dance" after all it is easing the level of stress in you as well as around you as someone watches to smile, as well as laugh and has others thinking "hey maybe life is to serious all the time", to get them to break a move and sing something out loud always stuck in their head as well. 



After all we almost always hear and see "LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE" so take that and make another laugh by your outrageous brake outs of songs stuck in your head.  I am thinking if your showing others that sometimes just sometimes serious needs to be kicked to the curb for just a little while, a whole lot of us would be much happier, deep breathing people, even if it is of the taboo "sex" kind of tunes.



 
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Mar 9, 2015

~LULU~ Behind the Puppy Dog Eyes

 


I dislike that I can say that in a short period of time that I have been learning the different arrays of grief that come to your life from my husband, my father and now the four legged human kind, as I would like to call them, fur babies.  To each their own I am finally noticing that each holds a very special gift, blessing and strong hearted message to your life.  I am noticing more now than ever that the saying "people come into your life for reason" is very loud yet when lost heart wrenching yet at the same time through that pain the most powerful of message to your heart and soul is shined upon you. 

It is sad to say that it is not until that person, 4 legged human, child, spouse, friend (etc) is until you find what that blessing has been to you all along, it is as though we have time here with these people in our lives that we cherish the time not ever opening our hearts truly to the great gift and message they are trying to teach us to our lives.  We get so wrapped in just being able to have them in our lives in the flesh we never really take the time to understand truly what it is they are blessing our lives with, what their true calling to your life is trying to speak to your heart.  I never realized this and just how deep it lays in your soul until the third time I had a loss yet again in my life. 

This time to my disbelief it was from our precious four legged human.  It has been always a great dream to me since my husband passed and having to let go of my precious black lab Max that I had always yearned to have a lab puppy in our lives again, knowing it could never replace Max but a precious new beginning for my daughter and I, a fur baby to love and become our family again.


 
This would of never been possible if not for my boyfriend stepping up and agreeing to take care of her while we find our own home to live.  My daughter and I anticipated the day we would take our fur baby home forever, nothing made our hearts beam in knowing that day would be soon.  The day came and gone, many proud walks to school and home, with a pack of kids crowded around in the awe of the puppy dog in the school yard, Lulu (our fur babies name) could of never been so happy to see all the attention around her, tail wagging a mile a minute, smiles from all around as they gazed upon the puppy that did not want to stand still.  Lulu was the spotlight and there was no way out for a long time, every time we went to school with her, Hailey walking so proud knowing "this is my puppy", as so many flocked to her and admired her, proud she most definitely was.

It actually shocked me to see that wherever Lulu went many were mesmerised by her beautiful soul.  I thought it was just me that thought the same thing but thought I was being partial to her because she was our own, yet I truly seen the instant smile she brought to everyone she came into contact with, the instant stress eraser to many you could see in others as it lifted within an instant of her embrace.  Lulu was the definition of what life truly is and how it should be, crazy, fun, joy, unconditional love.   She brought into our lives nothing but pure joy, blessings and love. 

She was the crazy, full of life and energy fur baby I always imagined I wanted in a four legged human.  She truly was everything I imagined for us in a puppy we could love.  Full of life, full of energy, care free and having fun with out a care in the world, I always thought "this is how us as humans should grasp life as".  The paw print she left in our hearts  as well as our lives will never lift, forever it will stay. 



Now at the same time we had Lulu in our lives was a time that there was a rough patch happening within myself, during this time for so many reasons I broke up with my boyfriend, wondering every day how Lulu was?, knowing my boyfriend was the world to Lulu so how could I take that away from her?, the constant conflict of not knowing how to handle the situation, yet at the same time my heart shouting to me that the choice I made was not the right one, that losing him was not truly what I wanted to do.   

In those five days is truly where I started to notice "you never know what you got until its gone" was truly about, yet he was not gone,  he was still here in the flesh, this was when I realized how all people should understand and look to every person in their lives and grasp that hidden gift and message to them and their lives, to not wait until they have left this world to understand what it is they are trying to gift you with, so that in their time here with you the more you can take all of them in, to truly be grateful for the gift that they are to you and love them purely for what they stand for. 

It is truly an angel in the flesh walking with you in hopes of you catching the blessings they hold for you.  Lulu was the reason I found out truly what my boyfriends gift was to me, she was the tie that bonded us back together, she was the gift into showing me the value of all the people in my life, the gift they bring to me, with out losing and finding out, yet finding out and being that much more grateful to them for what they all are to me now while still here with me in this world. 



My husband passed message was so many yet I never truly embraced his gift to me until gone, yet in that finding out that brings you out of the pain that feels will never go, you find your smile in knowing just exactly what they were to you, what gift they been trying to give you all the while you never noticed due to just living life and loving that they are in your world.  My father he to brought so much gifts into my life, yet again not until he was on his last breath I fully embraced his gift and to this day forward I still am. 

Lulu now Lulu she was an angel, however I do believe all animals are angels on earth with the unconditional love they carry for you every single day no matter what.  Lulu was a huge gift and great message to our lives, she taught us no matter how bad of a day you are having her craziness, energy, and carefree love for life could take all that bad day away in a heart beat.  No matter how bad or how down I felt that day seeing here instantly erased all of it, she was the bond that showed my boyfriend, daughter and I to love and just be together, that we belonged together no matter what others said or thought.  She truly showed my boyfriend how it was to love unconditionally, she was our crazy glue that showed us togetherness was greater than separation. 

She touched the hearts of so many that did not even know her, Lulu was definitely an angel of love that was here to lift the burden of anything that person carried that she crossed paths with in her life, to show humans to not take life so seriously and have fun.  Now this is where I truly understand from humans to four legged humans that there is no difference in the heart pains of the loss. 



The day I found out she was no longer here on earth are words of pain and tears of ache that still linger I could never describe, that to lose a fur baby is just the same as losing a loved one, that day I found out she had passed away was the day I found out that in the loss of an animal is no different then the loss of a human, is felt in the heart just the same, the gift in that pain is their gift to you to find through the tears and loss. 

Lulu was our unconditional love, togetherness, lesson learned to never take life so seriously, to be energy, to be care free and most of all that its ok TO BE CRAZY FUN, yet the most valuable to always love unconditional no matter what, to embrace the lives of strangers even though you don't know them and try with all you have to lift their burdens of the day that they may have.  She was here for a short time but the impact of her will be with us for a life time. 

It is truly a miracle when you are able to feel the love of that spirit in you, around and to fully take it all in, I felt her love for the first time the other day, her presence in me and smiled as I could feel her joy for life all around me and in my heart as if to say to me "I may not be visible but always will I be invisible in spirit with you, to remind you what exactly I was in your life to teach you".  Lulu will forever be in our lives not visible but in love, spirit and the ties of love we share with each other.



LULU2 is yet to be on the way, we know nothing will never replace Lulu but we also know that the gift it is to fully embrace the love of another, to not fear the loss yet enjoy the present moment and bare the gifts of having a fur baby in our lives yet again, to honor Lulu in knowing giving all the love you can to a fur baby is a great gift to their life and yours as well, a forever home and heart full of love.

IN DEDICATION TO OUR BELOVED LULU ~FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS~



P.S This blog had me in tears from the very first word I typed, yet at the same time a smile in knowing just how powerful our little angel was to us and life.

 
 
 
 

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