Danell Boyles TeNyenhuis Black
Bio
I began writing after my late husband's death in 2016. I created a blog, My Life After Patrick to write about my experience and how I was moving forward. In the five years since then I have finished my Masters in Counseling and remarried.
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The Hilarious Requests For Help From My Daughter
My daughter is brilliant, beautiful, funny, and endearingly helpless at times. She's not genuinely helpless, but she likes to call a parent as her first course of action. She used to call so frequently her father worried about her ability to live in the Los Angeles area on her own. Now, as she finishes her final year of law school, I know he is smiling down on her from heaven, and I am answering her calls.
By Danell Boyles TeNyenhuis Black5 years ago in Families
Songs On My Grief Playlist
Crying is good for you. The alternative to crying is holding it all inside. That may work for a while, but eventually, the tears will come. I know this as a widow who experienced sudden loss. I also know this as a counselor.
By Danell Boyles TeNyenhuis Black5 years ago in Beat
