It's Okay to be Okay: Finding Joy through Grief

One morning, I left for work as a wife. That afternoon, I came home as a widow. My husband passed away unexpectedly and I was not okay. I suffered from both depression and anxiety. I was worried about how to grieve and also be a single parent to three teenage boys that were grieving. I questioned how the God I believed in could allow this to happen to us.

I returned to journaling as a way of coping and learning about who I was to become. Through my writing, my faith was strengthened and my t...