Peer to peer support for widowers

Matthew Logelin, Bestselling Author & Blogger, shares advice from personal experience on a few great options for peer to peer support for widowers that help with the grieving process
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Peer to peer support for widowers

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As far as support for widowed family and children, there is so many different options out there. There are support groups, there are psychologist, there are psychotherapist all of those options are really wonderful for people and i think they vary depending on who you are. What I found is that talking to other people who were likely helped me so much. Talking to other widows, talking to other widowers and getting to understand how they dealt with the situation helped me so much more I think in dealing with somebody that you would call a professional. Somebody whose in school, whose learned how to deal with this things on a very sort of academic or professional level. Talking to the people who've actually been through it helped me immensely. I got to know them so well, i get to know and feel normal about the way that I felt and in the way I dealt with things. Because I think widow people often times feel crazy especially young widows. they don't know what it's like, they don't have this expectation as they are growing up that they are going to have their partner die when they are 30 or 40 or whatever it might be. And so to find other people that help me normalize that experience for you can be a life saver.

Matthew Logelin, Bestselling Author & Blogger, shares advice from personal experience on a few great options for peer to peer support for widowers that help with the grieving process

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Matthew Logelin

Bestselling Author & Blogger

Matthew Logelin is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Two Kisses for Maddy, as well as the acclaimed and award-winning blog, Matt, Liz, & Madeline. His essays have been featured in the Huffington Post, Glamour Magazine, Mamalode Magazine, and The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything.

Two Kisses for Maddy was the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award in the Best Memoir & Autobiography category, 2011, has been translated to four languages and was recently optioned by the Lifetime network, to be adapted for the small screen by Marta Kauffman (Friends) and Denise DiNovi (Crazy, Stupid Love; The Lucky One).

Matt is also the founder and president of The Liz Logelin Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in honor of his late wife, with the sole purpose of providing hope for young widowed families (regardless of marital status or sexual orientation) through financial assistance and necessary resources. Since its founding in 2009, The Liz Logelin Foundation has given grants to more than 120 families. Most importantly, Matt is the father to four-year-old Madeline. His toughest critic most days, she is also his biggest fan. He spends his days helping her refine her taste in music and books. They live in Los Angeles but travel often to see as much of the world as possible. 

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