Donna Mathiowetz: What Have You Done Since I Left? – Part 2

Take 25 minutes over lunch to nourish your soul!

See Donna’s bio and listen to Part 1 of Nada and Donna’s Dare Ah New Belief conversation here.

In Part 2, Nada and Donna discuss:  

1. How Donna and her husband came to adopt Oleg, who was ill with cancer, while they were still grieving the loss of their 16 year-old son.
2. How a teenage boy from the other side of the world made such a mark on Donna and Dick’s lives.
3. Expressing to Oleg that his cancer had metastasized, and the prognosis was poor.
4. How to truthfully answer grieving people’s questions about healing.

1. There are no right or wrong ways to grieve. Just allow yourself the space to grieve.
2. Grief fog can cloud a grieving person’s judgment, so it is best to not make any major decisions for at least a year.
3. Time does not stop the laughter that comes with beautiful memories.
4. Twenty eight years later, one can feel like they are still grieving.
5. We fall short in society in offering ways to hold people in grief.

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