Fourth Thursday of Month (FTM) - Peer-Led Support Topic Meeting - SEPTEMBER

Our topic this month is: "Re-Discovering Ourselves After Loss:  Moving Beyond the Widow Label"

We will spend the month of September exploring and re-discovering our self-identities.

way we perceive ourselves (our "self-identities") shifts throughout our lifetimes. Relationship-wise, professionally, spiritually, physically, and financially. Our self-identities are an evolving combination of both growth and loss.

The loss of our partners strikes hard at our identities. How do we move beyond "The Widow Label?"

With the support and understanding inside our Peer-Led Support Topic Meetings, we can help you recognize that your story is not over, that you are not forever stuck in widowhood, and that together, we can choose how to re-invent, re-discover, and re-create a thriving (instead of simply surviving) future.

Our Topic Committee volunteers suggest reading the following:

Building A New Identity After Loss

I Don't Know Who I am Anymore, Grief and Loss of Identity

A Guide to Finding Yourself

Or, you can listen to Dawn's Video on the topic, here

Co-Leaders:  Pat & Leslie

Pat Osman zooming in from Windsor, Colorado

About me:  I am a military mom and a former public school middle & high school teacher. Now full-time volunteer staff at the W Connection including: Online Topic Facilitator, W Chat Host, First Connect Leader, Training and Topic Development. I left the Philly area three years ago for a life with family in Colorado.

Interests: Hiking in the Rockies, snowshoeing, gardening, reading, music, theater.

Works well with: Working moms, empty nesters, people with a passion for outdoors.

Year of Loss: 2014

Leslie Goldman zooming in from South Orange, NJ

About me: I am an artist and a musician, a mom, and a good friend. I practice gratitude and enjoying all the new opportunities for growth I'm experiencing now.  

Interests: Painting, singing, writing, and performing music, entertaining, cooking.

Works well with: Working moms, moms with young children, creative and passionate women.

Year of Loss: 2012 when my children were 10 and 12 years old