While there is no how-to guide for young widows navigating life post-loss, The One Thing: 100 Widows Share Lessons on Love, Loss, and Life, is a powerful resource for new widows - told from the vantage point of those who have lived it. The coffee-table style book’s 10 chapters address topics of relevance to the widowed community ranging from dealing with the rawest stages of grief to raising children as a solo-parent and balancing the often fragile relationship with in-laws. 

One-hundred young widows share insightful, raw, and touching lessons they’ve learned as they navigated life post-loss. The group offers advice on everything from surviving the rawest stages to opening their heart to love again.

The 10 “chapters” addressed in the coffee-table style book with nostalgic black and white photography throughout include: Grief, Children, In-Laws, Family & Friends, Judgment, Finances, Dating, Sex, Religion & Spirituality, and Rebuilding.

Uncover the "one thing" this outspoken group would share with the next wave of widows about rebuilding post-loss and how to ultimately move to a place of healing.

Kerry was widowed at age 32. Determined to not allow grief to drag her under or for death to get a ‘bonus’ spouse, she vowed to successfully navigate widowhood, despite not knowing any peers who had lost a spouse. In 2015, she realized there wasn’t a forum for widows and widowers wanting to venture back into the world of dating and started Young, Widowed & Dating. The online support group provides a safe, supportive and nonjudgmental environment for the widowed community to share their dating adventures. Her weekly blog of the same name covers topics ranging from relationships with in-laws to dating while raising children and everything in between. Kerry is also a blogger for Hope for Widows Foundation, a nonprofit organization which provides peer to peer support, and a former contributor to HuffPost, where she covered topics such as widowhood, loss, and grieving. She is the author of “Writing & Widowing: Journaling the Journey”, journal prompts designed specifically for those who have lost a spouse, and is featured in the book, “Widowed but not Wounded: The Hustle & Flow of 13 Resilient Black Widowed Women” which was released in December 2017. You can learn more about her by visiting www.YoungWidowedandDating.com.