The W Connection In 
We are happy and proud to let you know, in case you did not see it, that co-founder Dawn Nargi and The W Connection were the focus of the New York Times Sunday Business Section's popular "Preoccupations" column on April 29.
For the Times to choose to feature Dawn and our non-profit is equivalent to a tacit recommendation, recognition that we're doing something extremely important for society.
In the Times piece, Dawn talks poignantly about how she has balanced a high-stress job, her 4-year-old son William and their dog Canyon - all while learning how to rebuild her life after her husband Norman Ferren passed away in 2008. Click here to read the entire article
The story has already produced some wonderful and measurable results: many new members to our chapters, many women offering to volunteer as peer mentors, offers to help start at least four chapters locally and emails from as far away as Uruguay.
This story fulfills at least one of the W Connection's important missions: to raise awareness about what widows go through. It also hopefully fulfills another: to encourage widows to avail themselves of the growing number of resources, programs and services we offer.
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Watch Our New Video: The W Connection produced by Sinead Kierans
Sinead Keirans is a film major at Middlebury College in Vermont. She is also the daughter of the W Connection Board of Directors and NYC Chapter member, Kathy McHugh. Sinead's dad died very suddenly in 2008. She produced this video as a school project and as a result of the great respect she has for the work we do. Thanks Sinead!
Click here to see the entire video
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W Connection Chapter News
During our May meetings we introduced the first module of our program TransitionQuest: Exploring the Possibilities. We all know we have to rebuild our lives...how do we even start? And, if we look forward 3- 5 years from now what could our lives look like. Lots of good conversation took place which we will continue during our June meetings.
WANT TO JOIN A W CONNECTION MEETING?
Next Meetings:
New York City - June 11 6:30PM-8:00PM
Long Island - June 26 6:30PM - 8:00PM
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Widow to Widow Monthly Conference Calls Conducted by Audrey Pellicano
 Audrey has been in the health care industry for 37 years as a Registered Nurse, Case Manager with a Masters degree in Health Science. Having been widowed at the age of 38 with 4 young children, Audrey sought out the assistance of those professionals familiar to her but who had no experience in working with a young widow with years of raising children before her. Her goal as a Health Counselor to those who have been widowed is to be their guide through the process and to provide an empathetic and safe place to grow through the grief and to provide for them resources with professionals familiar with the challenges of a widow.
The calls are scheduled for every third Wednesday of the month, from 6:30pm-7:30pm EDT. Join Audrey and other widows as they give support to each other and answer many of the
questions that keep widowed women up at night If you or someone you know could benefit from these Q&A calls, register at: www.wisewidow.com
THIS MONTH'S CALL IS WEDNESDAY JUNE 20TH . |
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The Reading Corner: The Sisterhood of Grief by Anne Penketh
Appeared in The New York Times, June 1, 2012
WASHINGTON - I made a new acquaintance the other day in Washington. We were brought together by a well-meaning mutual friend who thought we would want to share our common experience: the sudden death of a spouse.
Only a few days before that a dear friend had died in a car crash in Virginia. He was 60, the same age as my own husband who died three and a half years ago in France. Just as I had begun to feel that I was emerging at last from the dark tunnel of bereavement, I was thrust back into the company of the grief-stricken, trying to comfort two widows while knowing exactly the suffering that lay in store for them.
Click here to read the entire article
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