Susan, your host, is joined by Marie Scott in today’s episode. Marie is the Creator and Founder of Happy and Healthy After Widowhood. After losing her beloved Dave of almost 30 years, and her mom the same year, she went back to school to learn more about the link between food and cancer. After becoming a certified health coach, Marie now coaches widows and widowers using her 7 Steps to Healing After Loss, a unique roadmap to finding a new purpose after a devastating loss. After her health transformation and getting off all meds, losing 20 pounds, reversing pre-diabetes, and through her life transformation of becoming an author of three published books, an international speaker, and a wellness coach, she has many testimonials and is now happily married again to the second great love of her life, Jeff.

 

Key Takeaways:

• Sugar feeds cancer.
• Marie talks about her loss and grief as well as remembers the wonderful times she got to spend with him.
• Everyone has the right to choose to die with dignity, to choose quality over quantity of life.
• Susan talks about how Paul didn’t want treatment and did it for everyone else.
• Marie shares how her husband worried about her having a life again.
• The first thing that goes missing with grief is laughter; once you reencounter your laughter, healing begins.
• When you do something for 30 days in a row, it becomes a habit.
• Writing a book is a labor of love! Marie shares how she wrote her first book.
• Marie shares how she met the second love of her life.
• Widows have an incredible amount of love left to give.
• Marie shares how she started a career as a coach.
• Marie talks about the 7 Steps of Healing.
• Marie talks about her next book named Cooking with a Side of Kleenex.
• “Find a sense of community” is Marie’s advice for anyone grieving.

 

Resources

Tendrilsofgrief.com

Email Susan: [email protected]

 

Meet Marie Scott

Happy and Healthy After Widowhood

Marie Scott Wellness

“7 Steps to Healing After Loss”