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Slightly Lighter

Posted on: December 27, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by Caleb Woods on Unsplash I survived another Christmas Day. Woohoo! I survived yet another Christmas Day. I am impressed. And of all of the above words, the word “survived” is the one that least fits. Because, for the first time in 9 Christmases, it didn’t feel like “survival”. It wasn’t exactly singing and […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Holidays, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Some emails jump out and punch me

Posted on: December 20, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo of Julia by one of her school friends I needed to find an email I knew would be in my inbox somewhere, and so typed in two Christian names that I figured would result in what I was looking for. The email I was hunting for showed up, but so did this one. I […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed Memories, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Two Additional Years

Posted on: December 13, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by Kristopher Fuller on Unsplash Today I have lived two full years longer than Mike lived. He never quite made 20,000 days, and I am now well over that milestone. I have been lucky to have… 730 additional days 17,520 additional hours 10,512,000 additional minutes 63,072,000 additional seconds …as compared with what Mike had. […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Did I hear you say “…my surviving kids…”?

Posted on: December 6, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo of my surviving kids, 27 July 2020, on what would have been their dad’s 57th birthday I was on a call last night for a personal-professional (same-same) development programme. It was the fifth meeting of eight we are having as a learning cohort. The group of participants is not large. All our rectangular-shaped-zoom-faces fit […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Being friends because your friend is dead

Posted on: November 29, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

I have been having a few lovely days in Paris. It might be best known for being gorgeous in the Spring, and I do like it in the Summer too, but I think it’s lovely in the Autumn as well. Plenty of trees with oranges and yellows in them, fresh temperatures, blue to blue-grey skies. […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

“Relativiser”

Posted on: November 22, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image on Unsplash by Dan DeAlmeida A long, long time ago, I had a lovely colleague, (let’s call her Jeanne), who had a similar role to me, except she was head of a different office in our consulting firm. She was a bit older than me, and had had all of her three kids before […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

For once, the tears weren’t (only) mine

Posted on: November 15, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Main Image by Zac Ong on Unsplash Last Sunday I completed a 20 km running event. My first event of that distance (or so) in three years. I wrote about the run’s run-up last week. I have so often been on the verge of tears at various points in long runs – whether they are […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Keeping Active Hope Alive for COP27

Posted on: November 8, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Tomorrow I am participating in the Geneva 20 km run. The last time I participated in a distance like this – approximating a semi-marathon – was 2019. The year Julia died. I remember that event so clearly. It astounds me that it was already three years ago. And yes, COVID happened. The Lausanne semi-marathon is […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Old Habits Meshing With New Ones – aka – From Sergy to Scheveningen Overland

Posted on: November 1, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

All photos my own I am on a Thalys train, sat at Rotterdam Centraal, awaiting the departure to Paris. I have had a very short, end-of-week (as opposed to weekend/week-end), break to see Megan who is studying in The Hague. I am on my way home, and door-to-door, it should take me 11 hours if […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

When not to mention the death of a child…

Posted on: October 25, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by Vlada of Oświęcim on Unsplash I went to see an extraordinary film last night – “Simone, Le Voyage Du Siècle” (in English, it’s been translated as, “Simone, A Woman of the Century”. The Simone in question is Simone Veil, French (and European) political, women (and human) rights activist, and Holocaust survivor. A woman […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Multiple Losses

Witnessing Deep, Rich Love, Sorrow and Pain in Others

Posted on: October 18, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by Whoislimos on Unsplash I spent some deeply touching moments, minutes, hours yesterday evening, during my shift at the hospice. We have a beautiful new resident. She is a true beauty. Glorious skin and hair. Luminous eyes. Not so many people who are nearing their final days are graced with such luxuriant beauty. She […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

The Comfort – and Wisdom – of Denial

Posted on: October 11, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Main image by Quliyeva Efsane on Unsplash   I have been reflecting on Denial. I realise that I have come to value, appreciate, love and respect Denial. Not as a blanket approach to life, but as a bit of a cosy corner to hide away in from time to time. Or even longer periods of […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

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