Episode Description
Widow Goals Series Kickoff: Get Out of Bed
In this episode of Widowed 2 Soon, Michelle Bader Ebersole kicks off a brand-new Widow Goals series, going back to the heart of the message that started it all.
Before Widow Goals became a nonprofit, a book, retreats, support groups, and a growing community of widows, it started with one simple desire: to help widows take the next step when life feels impossible.
Over the coming weeks, Michelle will be revisiting the 30 goals from her book, Widow Goals: Steps to Finding Peace When You Lose Your Spouse, sharing what she has learned since writing them and offering practical encouragement for wherever you are in your grief.
And Goal #1 starts about as simple—and as hard—as it gets:
Get out of bed.
Michelle shares what those earliest days after losing Luke were really like, when even getting up in the morning could feel overwhelming. She talks about why grief can make the smallest things feel impossible and reminds widows that healing doesn’t happen in neat stages or on a predictable timeline.
This episode is especially for the widow who is still in survival mode. Michelle shares practical ways to make mornings a little easier, why having someone check in can help, the importance of sleep and caring for your body, and why putting even one small thing on the calendar can give you something to hold onto.
She also talks about one of the things that has made the biggest difference in her own journey: community with other widows who truly understand.
You don’t have to have the next year figured out. You don’t even have to have tomorrow figured out.
Sometimes the goal really is just to get out of bed.
And that counts.
Michelle also shares a glimpse of what’s ahead with Out of the Fog and Into the Light: Rebuilding Your Life When Everything Changes and how the lessons she first learned through widowhood are becoming part of an even bigger message about rebuilding after life doesn’t go the way you planned.
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