An Online Community for Widows
Re-Boot Your Life
Strategies, Tools & Guides to Surviving and Overcoming Loss to Thriving.
we can’t do it alone. ARE YOU ? OR Is someone close to you suffering in silence?.
Kannellies has built a strong eco-system for widows. We offer w a suite of tools - practical strategies and guides which support Widows to rebuild, reconstruct their lives, enabling reintegration into society in both the personal and professional areas of life in the shortest time. Kannellies will pick up from where bereavement counselling ends.
The services are anchored on 7 life pillars that support wellbeing leading to be productive and positive members of society again. Kannellies services are preventative and proactive reducing the number the possibility of needing treatment for the normal effects of widowhood which manifest as physical and mental illnesses.
Join us on a journey of self discovery, finding peace & tranquility and the confidence to pick up and move forward, without forgetting our loved ones.
a widow’s account of how to overcome
Hi, I’m Dorothy.
I became a widow on the 16th January 2010 at 05:25am. That day changed the course of my life, in an instant. I am building this community for those who have lost their love, their soulmate, their partner. The gap they leave behind is difficult to fill and maybe we shouldn’t be trying to fill the gap. Maybe we should just honour them, be glad that your paths met. We cannot change the fact that they have left this world. So we have to pick ourselves up, face the responsibilities that we have before us. Not easy but that is why I am here, sharing what I would have liked someone to have told me……………….
I hope you all find something in these pages to excite you, a breathe of fresh air, objective views, tips to take away, expert opinions and a roadmap to follow making Your Journey less weary.
Thank you for visiting us and we hope that you will find lots of interesting take aways during your journey with us.
The purpose is to provide a comfortable, calm, non-intrusive space and community where anyone can access a holistic and creative environment. What we are offering does not dwell on the doom and gloom, but rather a safe space that can guide and inform. We want you to feel emotionally and physically better. If you want to enjoy outings with others from the community, all the better! we want you to become ready to take on the world again!
The first tit bit that will kick start us on this journey together is this: “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily: The secret of your success is found in your daily routine” (John C Maxwell). Not easy to stick to a morning routine but it has worked for me. If I don’t do my morning routine, I forgive myself and say there is another chance tomorrow.
Inspiratonal words from wintley phipps …
“It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God’s greatest gifts are given in compensation for what you have been through… it is well, it is well with my Soul…”
https://youtu.be/E8HffdyLd0c
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For yourself to heal & thrive again
Loss is usually devastating, so it is not surprising that we all just need some support so that we can feel normal again. Our defence is just to go on auto-pilot. I would like to join a community of widows who can uplift me and experts to help me plan and execute my new life choices.
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for a friend or Family member
Has your mother, aunt, uncle, grandmother, friend, colleague lost their soulmate? Do you see the grief written all over their faces? Are you at a loss of how to help? You may not be able to spend as much time together? That’s why we are here. Gift her with access to our community.
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Corporates
Has one of your staff lost their partner? Or has your staff member passed away? A great way to show your support is to purchase a voucher and help them rebuild their lives. Add this service to your employee benefits package & support your staff through what is undoubtedly the most challenging time of their lives.
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i just want to support
We will all lose our loved ones at some point on our life journeys. It is a lonely and painful time. I would like to support those who have lost someone close. I would love to know that I have made a difference to their life. These services will provide tangible support that I may not be able to give myself. If that is you, gift a voucher
My Approach
I wrote a book in which I poured out all my pain but also my happiest memories. It helped me heal. So I am sharing it with you, along with a series of ‘workbooks’ because I also want this community to help each other to make decisions that enhance our lives with support of experts. That is my WHY. My loss was enormous - my husband was my best friend, my business partner, father to my children, and someone whom I had met when I was just turning 19 years old!! So losing him was double, triple, quadrupled loss. I know what it is to become a widow and I did not know where to turn to share my pain, my successes.
Life can be seen as the four seasons - spring summer fall and winter. This is the first year that I can think of him without feeling like a dagger has cut my heart. So I consider myself as having turned a corner in my grief, but it has has taken me 11 years! I kept asking myself…….would I have healed sooner if I had someone, a group, to have walked some of the journey with me. The answer is always a resounding YES! So I created Kannellies.
Dream it
I have asked a group of experts to help us make sense of what the future could look like. We have designed what we think is an awesome group of services.
We want you to dream about what you want for your life. You may want to go in a completely different direction. Or, as some widows have shared - they want to achieve one of the goals that were set with their partner
We help you to look at your life in this new reality. You need to identify your anchor points and start re-building because life will never be the same but it does not have to worse. Plan for success.
Build it
Under our services you will have access to Financial planners, wealth creation, business mentors, health professionals, pension experts, a Doula and more. You may even want to start a Foundation in the name of your loved one.
You are not alone…so many of us think we are alone but we don’t have to be.
“Never would have made it….. never could have made it without you. i would have lost it all, but now i see, i can say, ….i am stronger, wiser, i am better, so much better. i have been through my storm and test, to carry me through my mess…..when i look back.. never could have made it without you… i made it!
These are the words in Marvin Sapp’s gospel song. I must have listened to this a million times. It helped me through.