Widows Speak: A Guide to Healing, Living, and Thriving After the Loss of a Loved One
Do you want to take the mystery out of grieving and mourning? Do you know how to care for yourself, especially when you are the caregiver? Do you want to honor the memory and dignity of your beloved?
Michele presents solutions and transformational processes in this well-researched, yet conversational book that will take you from grieving to thriving.
- Uplifting stories on how to flourish after the loss of a loved one.
- Sage advice for navigating the grief journey that leaves you hopeful.
- Writing prompts and rituals to help you heal.
- A checklist of essential documents for managing after-life affairs.
In Widows Speak, you’ll find:
Widows Speak gives readers a profound understanding of life, death, and resiliency. Read this book and gain knowledge to transmute your ability to successfully navigate loss!
FOREWORD:
My friend Michele Synegal is a healer. A woman who has been a widow for twenty-nine years of her adult life, Michele has been to the darkest places that none of us want to go and that many of us, nevertheless, find ourselves. The place where we stand alone without our husband, life-partner, soul mate, or better half. Standing in that place, we know no rewrite, revision, or magic wish will change what must be accepted. Yet, in that dark place, Michele eventually found, created, and opened herself to new dimensions of love that sprang from the soil of her grief and grieving. As a result, she has healed and continues to recover every day. And in Widows Speak, she offers her lessons learned, hard-won wisdom, and compassionate advice for widows. Death is a challenging, sometimes taboo subject because American society’s youth and beauty obsession and fear of acknowledging illness, loss, and death make the conversation about grief and grieving impossible. But Michele has found the words to hone a message that, while designed for African American widows, is relevant to anyone who has lost someone they loved.
This book is deeply personal as Michele shares the pain of her husband’s death and the continuing impact of his death on her and her
adult children, even as they all manage to thrive in ways that would make that husband and father proud. Widows Speak is a rich narrative as Michele dives into discussions of depression and the stages of grief, what to expect from the grief journey and how to go and grow gracefully through the phases.
The title of this book is appropriate because, on its pages, widows do speak. So often silenced, misunderstood, and marginalized, you will meet women with powerful stories of loss, evolution, and redemption on these pages. So, to my friend Michele Synegal, I thank you for a book for anyone and everyone who has ever loved somebody and lost somebody and had to find themselves. ~ Marita Golden, Author The Strong Black Woman How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women
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Inspiration in Small Doses
Many people face today’s threats and challenges that require that they take a deep look at their beliefs, values, goals, and dreams. To move beyond the obstacles, we must tap into the sources of inspiration that often lie dormant within us. The brief personal stories and informative essays explore various facets of the author’s life from adversity to outrageous joy! Each chapter ends with empowering affirmations that will provide encouragement when you start to believe them, thus believing in yourself.
We have the potential to be so much more and with a little inspiration we may just step onto that promise of what we can become. Michele shares some of her foibles and triumphs that she hopes helps you move beyond where you are to where and who you want to be. This tiny book is packed with transformational practices that uplift and empower to achieve higher levels of success and personal fulfillment.
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About the Author
Michele Synegal has been a writer ever since she learned to put pen to paper. From an early age, she began journal writing to capture her thoughts, feelings, and actions to understand herself and her relationship with her family, friends, the communities in which she’s lived, and the world.
She is a non-fiction writer because lived experiences teach us about who we are and the promise of what we can become. Through the written word she hopes to educate, heal, and help others realize their full potential. Her work as a professional consultant and as a minister is the way she uses her gifts and talents to fulfill her life’s purpose. Writing expands her reach and her ability to share a philosophy, faith and way of life that supports living authentically.