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27 Amber Jackson | Life as a Young Widow with Four Children

February 13, 2023 • Season 3 • Episode 27

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Today on the podcast I am speaking with Amber, a young widow, and divorcee who now raises four children on her own. She lost her husband Tim just seven months ago after a 16-months battle with cancer. She now is the captain steering the ship of her family, running a household with four children under twelve, at the same time as tending to her grief and her own needs.

Amber is a guiding light as to the resilience she draws from, inspiring with her version of grieving seeing it as a sacred time while also growing and evolving as her own person and in her life after the loss of her soulmate. She believes that ‘laughing means singing Tim’s song’ and it is a way to show her love for him.

Amber shares this beautiful advice she picked up early on after her husband died:

About this week’s guest

Amber Jackson is a mom of four (one with special needs) and a cancer widow but that hasn’t stopped her from living life to the fullest. She is a self-proclaimed life enthusiast and is determined to see everything that life has to offer, including the bad, as something she can learn from. She loves tulips, pizza Friday, and kitchen dance parties.

Visit Amber's Instagram page here.

Topics discussed in this episode

Divorced twice with two young children
Widowed by the age of 32 raising four children on her own
Support of family, friends, and church
Being faced with mortality and living with anticipatory grief
The benefit of regular, ongoing therapy
Seeing grief as a sacred time

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