"I was so distracted, so consumed constantly by the ways that I had fractured out my attention to any and everything that might need me," she says. "It always felt like I was juggling on top of like a pogo stick on top of a ball." After her husband's death in 2012, LZ Granderson decided to step down from his Hot Young Widdos Club. She asked male widows if they would be interested in taking it over; they said yes.
After Nora McInerny’s husband died of cancer in his thirties, Nora became well known for writing about the messiness of grief. She also led grief groups, launched a podcast about grief, and started a non-profit. Nothing Nora did ever felt like enough, until a terrifying moment made her slow down and take a hard look at her own grieving process.
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