In this episode, Mari shares four significant lessons she has learned throughout her four years of widowhood. For the first time ever, Mari also shares the name of her new upcoming bilingual children's book.

Mari is an author, widow, podcaster, and the founder of embracingwidowhood.com & The Embracing Widowhood Podcast.

In this episode, you will hear:

- Lessons learned from a young widow in her four years of widowhood
- Research-based information on the brain while in grief
- Information on Grief Spurts
- & Boundaries

In this episode, Mari interviews Janice from @anotherstrongwidow, a former geologist and mother of three young children who had to face her own cancer diagnosis shortly after burying her husband, who also died from another form of cancer.

In this episode, you will hear:

* A young women's early journey in widowhood

* Having to face a scary health diagnosis as a mom

* Talking to young children about death

* Resources for the Holidays &

* Research on Grief and Love.

Resources Include:

https://grief.com/

https://modernwidowsclub.org/

https://nacg.org/

https://www.dougy.org/

https://www.ericshouse.org/events/

Mari Marquez, a Ph.D. Student and children's book author shares research on how widowhood can impact our children. Mari shares points from various studies as to why navigating solo-parenting, widowhood, and rebuilding our identity is challenging.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Research on young widows with dependent-age children.
• How widowhood can impact our children.
• Ways to help ourselves after a loss.

Embracingwidowhood.com

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