Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Rest is necessary for any battle, rest is a great thing to look forward to. So how do we look for it, find it and make it apply to post traumatic joy? -- I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow Twitter: htps://twitter.com/YFNWPodcast IG: https://instagram.com/@ludwine.johnson #NormalizeSurvivorJoy Purchase my book: Not a Widow's Handbook - https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08WNJWKHW&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref =cm _SW_r_kb_dp_QJ3AD8RFAR632×0B7ZX4 Post Traumatic Growth Tee Shop: https://www.notawidowshandbook.com/yfnw-merch ADICOM AWARDS 2020 Nominee: https: //candidature.adicomdays.com/ịeune-talent lyour-friendly-neighborhood-widow-133 YFNW Podcast is #14 on top 30 Widow Podcast with Feedspot.com - https://blog.feedspot.com/widow_podcasts/ GQuotes Source: https://psycnet. apa.org/record/1976-09560-001 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What is the connection between, your mind, body, and soul? It took me a while to understand how the three were connected as I completely disregarded one player not realizing it is a unit work. -- I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow Twitter: htps://twitter.com/YFNWPodcast IG: https://instagram.com/@ludwine.johnson #NormalizeSurvivorJoy Purchase my book: Not a Widow's Handbook - https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08WNJWKHW&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref =cm _SW_r_kb_dp_QJ3AD8RFAR632×0B7ZX4 Post Traumatic Growth Tee Shop: https://www.notawidowshandbook.com/yfnw-merch ADICOM AWARDS 2020 Nominee: https: //candidature.adicomdays.com/ịeune-talent lyour-friendly-neighborhood-widow-133 YFNW Podcast is #14 on top 30 Widow Podcast with Feedspot.com - https://blog.feedspot.com/widow_podcasts/ GQuotes Source: https://psycnet. apa.org/record/1976-09560-001 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There is only one way to make room for self-love, by unlearning the conditioning that allow us the bandwidth to stay into toxic spaces. But I won't say it is easy - I'm convinced that culture shock is the shake from three forces at play in our post traumatic life. Which forces? Which one do I push forward? -- I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow Twitter: htps://twitter.com/YFNWPodcast IG: https://instagram.com/@ludwine.johnson #NormalizeSurvivorJoy Purchase my book: Not a Widow's Handbook - https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08WNJWKHW&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref =cm _SW_r_kb_dp_QJ3AD8RFAR632×0B7ZX4 Post Traumatic Growth Tee Shop: https://www.notawidowshandbook.com/yfnw-merch ADICOM AWARDS 2020 Nominee: https: //candidature.adicomdays.com/ịeune-talent lyour-friendly-neighborhood-widow-133 YFNW Podcast is #14 on top 30 Widow Podcast with Feedspot.com - https://blog.feedspot.com/widow_podcasts/ GQuotes Source: https://psycnet. apa.org/record/1976-09560-001 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I'm convinced that culture shock is the shake from three forces at play in our post traumatic life. Which forces? Which one do I push forward? -- I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow Twitter: htps://twitter.com/YFNWPodcast IG: https://instagram.com/@ludwine.johnson#NormalizeSurvivorJoy Purchase my book: Not a Widow's Handbook - https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08WNJWKHW&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref =cm _SW_r_kb_dp_QJ3AD8RFAR632×0B7ZX4 Post Traumatic Growth Tee Shop: https://www.notawidowshandbook.com/yfnw-merch ADICOM AWARDS 2020 Nominee: https: //candidature.adicomdays.com/ịeune-talent lyour-friendly-neighborhood-widow-133 YFNW Podcast is #14 on top 30 Widow Podcast with Feedspot.com - https://blog.feedspot.com/widow_podcasts/ GQuotes Source: https://psycnet. apa.org/record/1976-09560-001 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

People always have something to say to their younger self, but it seems me and my younger self have been giving each other the silent treatment until recently. Find out why! I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

"Get Over It" is great advice in the right context. However, the journey from trauma to post-traumatic joy is the plot of our own thriller! Find out how I apply Big Faith Energy to my post-traumatic life. I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

The discomfort in the calm after the storm. Silence can be seen as this intimidating thing, but in transitions, welcome silence as a place of rest. // I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

We are so afraid of victims that we try to beat survivorship onto people without allowing them to recognize their trauma. I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

I wish I could tell you it was realistic to say, "I am leaving all my worries behind" _ what if we spoke instead of a path forward. Lots of references to "The body keeps the score from Bessel A Can Der Kolk I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

As I moved into posttraumatic life, one challenge was identity. I needed to define who I was in relation to grief in order to accept to learn how to conquer it all. I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Ruth did not meet Boaz in a bar at last call, neither did she meet him at the bottom on a cheap bottle of scotch! What was I thinking all this time? Oh, I wasn't - I was grieving. Click play to listen to how and when I met Boaz.-- I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Do you feel deserving of all you have accomplished? or has grief and trauma convinced you that you are a fraud? - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Do we allow our Heros their humanity? How will this benefit us in the long run? - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Cultural Diversity and inclusion is deeper than skin. It is the rewarding challenge of allowing someone else the opportunity to be complete, beautiful, and enough from the comfort of their own experience. While feeling valued and confident in our own separate experience and way to love, grief, and rejoice. Listen to the last Episode of the Series Life Diverse with Randy Vieru, Karla Montesinos, Alex Vieru and Julian Sadur.  -  - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Sugar, Spice and a Marathon! Learning a culture different than ours and fully grasping its essence is not a flick of a switch moment. It is continuous practice of compassion and self-reflection. Randy Vieru, Julian Sadur, Karla Montesinos, and Alex Vieru tell us about learning about the stigmas in one another's lives and tell us how they view and discuss grief in their culture. - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Dating has its learning curves, dating outside of your culture can be an additional challenge. But it takes the right amount of compassion and appreciation to maneuver those learning times. Couples Alex and Randy, Julian, and Karla do rapid-fire questions with me on what they get along with, what they don't get along with, and in what way their families have been inclusive. Behind the scenes of Hashtag Goals, there is a real couple learning to navigate bringing two or more cultures together to engender a new sparkling hybrid loving and accepting culture. - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

As we get into the taboo topics surrounding diversity and inclusion; Panelist Julian Sadur and girlfriend Karla Montesinos, Randy Vieru and Husband Alex Vieru address the many ways we learn inclusion and diversity in our upbringing and how much different it is than our own personal views as members of intercultural and interracial relationships. - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

As we get into the taboo topics surrounding diversity and inclusion; Panelist Alex Vieru & wife Randy Vieru, Karla Montesinos, and boyfriend Julian Sadur invite us into their childhood into each of their cultures. One way to get to know someone is to walk a mile in their shoes. I invite you to imagine yourself in each of these scenarios so that you can truly get to know my guests! - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

How do you know weird grief from normal grief? Who gets to decide the acceptable way to grieve? Is it personal to the bereaved? - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Do you know the Airplane Mask Theory? Do not agonize over everyone else's expectations of your comeback story. Fasten your seatbelt, put on your mask, and walk right into your purpose. - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards, and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

(Parts Two) I know you do not like to talk about death and money. What if you were a domestic violence surviving widow - Would you talk about money then? You do not have to talk about it, Financial Advisor Randy Vieru (from the Youtube Channel: Meet The Truckers) & I tackle the subject for you. Join us to hear about How Living On Purpose, will save your life! - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

(Part One) I know you do not like to talk about death and money. What if the conversation of death and money was one more tool to tame the grief monster? You do not have to talk about it, Financial Advisor Randy Vieru (from the Youtube Channel: Meet The Truckers) & I tackle the subject for you. Join us to hear about How Living On Purpose, will save your life! - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

COVID-19 is the uncertain that we all hate. I have seen the influx of condemning memes about "If you don't come out of this quarantine with..." - I do not know what this time of isolation is meant to unlock in your life, I only have input about managing pride and prejudice from the perspective of domestic violence surviving widow. - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, I can't help but wonder how the bereaved and the abused are managing mandatory/highly recommended confinement. - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

The floor has dropped from under me. Do I run and hide? What now? - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Is enough finally enough? Where does one draw the strength to leave their abuser? - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

Why don't you just leave? Good question, click play - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

We all wonder. How do people stay in abusive relationships? - I make this promise to you; no matter the storm which eye you are currently standing in, you have full potential and full capabilities to win. Trust in yourself and the power within you to move mountains, to defy standards and to come out of it victorious. Also, if someone offers help? Take it! Remain humble (yet confident) and claim your victory! You won! Love, Your Friendly Neighborhood Widow

I can't tell you that I know what the next day would have been like 6 years ago. I did not know then, but I have an idea now - it should be more conversation and way less shame. Subscribe to follow along as I talk grief, abuse, generational trauma, mental health, self-love, post-traumatic growth and all of the in-between from the perspective of a Domestic Violence Surviving Widow. This is episode one: I CAN'T EVEN -- My very first thought, in the very first moment I became a widow.

On my fifth Widowversary, I released a book for all to read about my journey through Widowhood as a Twenty Four Year Old Domestic Violence surviving Widow. Thanks to the conversations it's sparked up, I am furthermore convinced that a few simple words will save a life. Join me on February 10th, 2020 for the very first day of my New Year resolutions: Making conversation, because CONVERSATION SAVES LIVES! We'll Talk Later Ok?