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Widows Online Support Group

Anna Farmery — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:33:14 +0000

Widows Quest is a community, not a blog to me. Last month we trialled getting together from around the world just to talk about our lives, our fears and – our tears. It was so wonderful to speak to other widows (or widowers) that we have arranged another grief support meeting….and remember it is free!

You don’t need to telephone…all you need is a computer with speakers…a microphone would be even better so we can hear you, but you can always use the chat box to talk to us, or just listen.

The June meeting will be online Friday 5th June at 6pm New York time. To check what time that is in your area try the world clock service.

If you want to join in then I will be holding it using gotomeeting and the details are as follows

Go to https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/172750394

You will be asked for a meeting ID which is : 172-750-394

It would be great to hear your story and also which posts from Widows Quests you really engaged with in May

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Widows Quest Grief Support Group

Anna Farmery — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:44:14 +0000

Support and friendship are two wonderful ingredients in the grieving process. Last month I organised a web session so that we could all talk, and it was so wonderful speaking to other readers of Widows Quest that we thought we would arrange another one. If you want to join in, it is totally free! Then just register your interest at the Widows Quest wiki.

The plan is that the session will be held at 6pm New York time on Friday 5th June 2009. I will post the details of the link to the gotomeeting site nearer the time.

Would love your ideas on what we coould talk about – or maybe what we should do is take a blog post that meant the most to us this month?

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Happiness, Sadness and Hope in Grief

Anna Farmery — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:13:11 +0000

Widows Quest had its first get together last night. We used Gotomeeing which mean that we all logged on to a website and we could all hear each other and talk to each other (Well almost Leslie!)

It was wonderful and my only hope is that we have more people join us next month…as just being together for an hour so helped me so much. Hearing others talking about coping with grief, knowing they truly understood the pain, feeling the love and support was fantastic! We plan another event at the beginning of June so watch out for details.

But I want to reach a Widows Quest hug out to Mary today who is bravely facing he wonderful husbands birthday today and Leslie who said today she is walking for her husbands cause. I wondered what a hug would be like, I think it would be

H = Hoping that you get the chance today to celebrate the life as feel the pain of the loss

U = Understand you are not alone, each one of us sends their love and are thinking about you

G = Grieving never means you lose the loss, but friendship means that you learn to cope….here is our friendship given

willingly!

A HUG a day will keep the depression at bay!

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Want to talk about your grief?

Anna Farmery — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:16:16 +0000

I have spoken before on Widows Quest about the benefit of the community and also how it would be great to get together and share our memories, our pain and our hopes. Well after a strange couple of weeks for us all – going by the comments to my blog posts – what about having a conversation next Sunday 26th April ? I am thinking 7pm UK time which would be 2pm New York time ? If you need to work out the timing for you then check out this world clock site.

What I was thinking as many people are not on Skype I would send you an invite to a gotomeeting event ? This would just mean you clicking on the link I send – may need you to download a small file depending on your computer but this would be done automatically so no tech knowledge required – and then we will all be able to speak to each other at no cost and we can all see the various posts on Widows Quest?

So if you want to attend then can you email me at anna@theengagingbrand.com and I will get a meeting arranged and send you a link later on in the week. I thought what would be nice is if we all pick the most meaningful post from Widows Quest and talk about why?

If we get a lot out of it, then we could do this each month ? Looking forward to hearing from anyone who thinks this is a good idea…also if the time is not right for many then we can always change it.

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