Losing a Partner Changes Everything.
—your identity, routines, and sense of self.
Our 6-week Fall Widow Rebuild Cohort begins October 2 and offers step-by-step guidance, live support, and connection with others who truly understand. Together, we’ll navigate the complete identity rebuild that follows widowhood and start creating a life that feels whole again.
Hi, I'm Leslie Palumbo.
Psychotherapist, Grief Counselor, Author, and Speaker.
I’m also walking the Widow Rebuild path myself. I lost my partner of 30 years after a long and painful battle with cancer. He had been my best friend, my everything, since I was 18. That loss required a complete identity rebuild—one I’m still navigating a decade later. It’s why I believe it doesn’t matter how long ago your loss happened—healing and rebuilding are lifelong processes. This group began from the guidance I pieced together in my own deepest grief.
Here’s What You Can Look Forward To
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Six Weekly Live Group Sessions – Connect in real time with others who truly understand widowhood and are ready to rebuild alongside you.
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Step-by-Step Guidance – Practical tools and gentle action steps to help you navigate identity shifts, boundaries, and emotional healing.
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Safe, Compassionate Community – A private, understanding space where your story is honored and your voice is heard.
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Exclusive Bonuses – Discounted 1:1 grief counseling, a copy of The Wisdom of Grief, and early chapters from Blueprint for Grief.
What To Expect
WEEK 1: COMPLETE IDENTITY REBUILD
- THE TRAUMATIC LOSS that is partner loss. All that is normal about feeling so abnormal and devastated after partner loss.
- Standing in the rubble: Identifying all the parts of ourselves that we have lost and figuring out what remains
- Questions to engage with during loss and identity rebuilding
- Identifying your Grief Resolution
WEEK 2: SELF PROTECTION
- How to mourn, honor who you were, and get curious about who you are becoming
- Relationship Maintenance with your Beloved & how to Protect it
- Who are you now and what can you bring with you from before? Identifying key losses, core values,
- The art of protective conversation- how to deal with awkward or offensive comments, topics and protect your boundaries and timing
- Identifying your Grief Tribe
WEEK 3: EMOTIONAL FLOODING & HOW TO RESET
- A step by step Guide for how to deal with strong emotions:
- How to handle triggers, sensitive times, anniversaries
- Mindset management: what is your job and what is grief’s job.
- How to keep your center and know who you are and who you want to be amidst emotional storms- differentiating between intuition and emotion. Who is running the show- your intuition or your emotion.
WEEK 4: INDIVIDUAL FACTORS:
- Sharing the loss while also sharing the rebuild.
- Actions steps for Cementing your Grief Tribe
- Action steps for building and supporting the life you are in now.
- Friendships: New and Old- what fits now and what doesn’t
- Loneliness v. Solitude- how to live alone and not be lonely
WEEK 5: REPARTNERING:
- Do you want it, fear it, dread it, avoid it, reject it?
- What does repartnering mean to you, what might it look like, and how do you go about it?
- How to deal with the disloyalty and guilt we put ourselves through for the feeling that we might someday want intimacy again.
- Defining what your partnership needs are based on who you are now.
- How to navigate modern dating
WEEK 6: INTRICATE JOY
- Living with the Bittersweet
- Making Friends with Grief
- What Lifelong partnership with your Beloved looks like
- The return of joy- when we can expect it, how to recognize it, understand it in the context of our ongoing sadness, and how to let it in.
After Registration
*Once registered, you will receive a series of personal email from me with next steps and links to our Zoom meetings, private Facebook group, suggested resources, and all educational materials you will need to prep for our experience and get started together.