"I think about him every single day. I don't know if there will ever be a day where I don't say his name," she says of her late husband. "Widow is a label and it's one I'm really glad that I embraced, like I still have that label ... It's just not going to be the first thing on my name tag." She adds: "It does not mean it means less. It is not the most important part of my identity anymore".
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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