Adapting to Change: Stories to Prepare, Be, and Help a Widow

Zen Success

Authors of the book, “Widows Among Us: Stories to Prepare, Be, and Help a Widow," were interviewed on the Zen Success Show

Rebecca K. LaChance, Ph.D., lost her husband of twenty-five years from a heart attack in the early days of the Covid pandemic. Her experience of becoming a widow and grieving was deeply influenced by pandemic restrictions, her neurodiverse brain, childhood traumas, and her introversion.

Rebecca was a Registered Nurse for over thirty years, specializing in Critical Care. Her academic career focused on the impact of a significant other’s death, including her doctoral thesis about how advance directives were implemented in a military medical hospital.

Karen Smith Racicot

Certified Life Coach

Karen R. Smith-Racicot (Tall Karen) is a certified Life Coach and co-owned an accounting firm for over 20 years with her late husband. After her husband’s untimely death, she authored the workbook “I Didn’t See That Coming!” as a guide for organizing important legal, financial, and insurance documents. She has spoken on that topic at various venues in the DC metro area.

Karen Justice

M.B.A.

Through twenty-nine lifetime moves, Karen S. Justice, M.B.A. (Short Karen), developed skills for facing change. Becoming a widow, however, was one of the most substantial changes she’s faced. After her husband’s death, Karen focused on building a new future. The effort combined fear, freedom, excitement, disruption, joy, and sadness. She learned much more about challenges and adaptation to change.