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Posted on: October 5, 2013 | Posted by: Taryn Davis

***Written in 2010, but with a 2013 photo. With this year being my 5th Anniversary, I thought it a perfect time to re-post. :)***  This weekend I’ll be at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. 8 stages, over a hundred bands, but to me it is so much more. Last October, my best friend (and fellow widow) and I ventured out on the green grass,…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Military Widowed, Widowed Suddenly

What if I Forget?

Posted on: October 4, 2013 | Posted by: Kelley Lynn

What If I Forget …. His smell. His funny lips and the way they turned up at the corner. His skin. His dry skin that always needed chapstick, and his back that always needed to be scratched. What If I forget … Those piercing blue eyes that became someone else’s eyes when he donated them to the eye bank. The way they looked at me. Through me.

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

I Promise

Posted on: October 3, 2013 | Posted by: Veronica King-Cunningham

“Don’t be too late tonight, I really want to spend some time with you.”   “I won’t. It’ll be an early hunt. I’ll be back before the kids go to bed. I promise.”     I promise. Right before we exchanged I love you’s, this was one of the last things I heard Jeremy say to me. I’ve played it out so many times in my head, it gets very muddled now,…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

Progress

Posted on: October 2, 2013 | Posted by: Janine Eggers

“The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” -Marie Curie       …… is not a word I would’ve used to describe any part of my “After” in the first few years.   Hell, I was trying too hard to just keep breathing, to just stay alive when I’d really rather not.   Progress?  Who gave a damn about progress …… I was using most of my…

Categories: Widowed, Newly Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

Looking After Me

Posted on: October 1, 2013 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

There’s someone I’ve been neglecting for the past 3.5 years.   She is strong, but has infrequent, spectacular meltdowns due to the ….(there is no word to describe this but widows know the feeling) …. of it all.   She loves hard, but falls hard.  She picks herself back up again, dusts herself off and keeps going.  She takes every sling and…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

They Were There

Posted on: September 30, 2013 | Posted by: Cassie Deitz

“Why don’t you reread your Widow’s Voice posts from the beginning and see what kind of progress you’ve made.” My smart smart dude’s advice the other day when I talked to him about the possibility of identifying so much with widowhood that it was keeping me stuck in some ways. So I tried it. I didn’t expect to discover what I did. The overall…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Suddenly

Silver Lining

Posted on: September 29, 2013 | Posted by: Richard Cox

I made the mistake of going through mine and Seth’s old emails.   He was in school full time. I worked a desk job. So we both sat in front of a computer all day.. and emailed each other during slow times.   I have a million emails between us.   Which can be a good thing and a bad thing.   I came a crossed an email that reminded me of right…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed by Suicide

Go, don’t follow the flow

Posted on: September 28, 2013 | Posted by: Taryn Davis

I’m a pretty laid back cat. Put me in a room with great music, good company and  a cold beer and I’m set. But that’s all external. Those are creature comforts. When it comes to the internal…. The decisions I make that will determine my life at that current moment. I’ve learned that the one thing you can’t be is laid back. You must be vigilant. A…

Categories: Widowed, Military Widowed

Turn It Down

Posted on: September 27, 2013 | Posted by: Kelley Lynn

Today is my birthday. Sort of. This blog will post on Friday, and so by the time you read this, it will no longer be my birthday. But right now, this minute, Thursday, September 26th, at almost midnight, it is the end of my birthday. This year, I am 42. This is the 3rd birthday without my husband. My first birthday without him was so awful, I don’t…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

Same old grief.

Posted on: September 26, 2013 | Posted by: Veronica King-Cunningham

I’ve been thinking about what to blog about for two days now. And I haven’t been able to come with anything. At least, not anything new. The ironic thing is, grief has been so heavy for me this week. Yesterday morning in the middle of a random conversation with my two year old about daddy, I burst into tears, which turned in to full-out sobbing by…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

There’s No Place Like Home ……

Posted on: September 25, 2013 | Posted by: Janine Eggers

…… even if it’s a brand new home. And sometimes …… especially if it’s a brand new home. (Not new as in newly built, but new as in new to you.) As most of you know, I’ve been splitting my time between Houston and New York City. And I’ve loved being in NY. I’ve always loved being in NY, but now I love it for additional reasons. And the…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Suddenly

A legacy of kindness….

Posted on: September 24, 2013 | Posted by: Amanda Wright

I recently read a book (and then watched the movie) called “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell.   I count it as one of my top ten reads of all time. It’s not an easy read, either in content (lots of death and savagery), nor in lightness (its complex, you can’t afford not to be 100% focused on the story or you will miss something important).But this…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Suddenly

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