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Kathie Neff

About Kathie Neff

Kathie Neff was widowed on April 15, 2021. She and her beloved husband, Dan, were high school sweethearts and enjoyed dancing and riding horses together. They lived in gratitude, hope and forgiveness for 50 years and nine months when Dan passed quietly late at night, surrounded by their seven children who, with Kathie, were caring for him in their family home.

Dan and Kathie have been a part of Camp Widow and Soaring Spirits International since its inception, as members of Michele Neff Hernandez’s cadre of helpers from the Neff family.

Kathie believes strongly in the strength and bond that is the gift of community and brings a heart of love for all who have been affected by death and dying.

Long live love. XO

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Healing Support Tools: The Labyrinth

Posted on: May 31, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Labyrinths represent a journey or path to our own center and back again. The labyrinth serves as a metaphor for life’s journey. —Healing Consciousness Foundation What is a labyrinth? There are many definitions for the word “labyrinth”. One simple way to explain it is “a series of circuitous paths that lead to the center and […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions

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Here Comes Everybody

Posted on: May 24, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

When my children were little, our youngest son always seemed to make a friend wherever he went. The library, in the aisles of the grocery store, or even while waiting for a prescription at the pharmacy. He was wired for seeing children in his world as “little-while friends.” When I attended Camp Widow, not long […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing

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My Other Life

Posted on: May 16, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

How do you spell Doula?   Today is Tuesday, at 11:18 pm and two things are true: I am only just now writing the Wednesday post for Soaring Spirits’ Widow’s Voice Blog There is a high likelihood I will be called to a birth in the wee hours of Wednesday morning Which means this will […]

Categories: Widowed

Family photo at the Hope Rises event.

What number of miracles brings us to this place?

Posted on: May 10, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

For 15 years, I worked in the development department of a local non-profit and I remember the needs of the community far outweighing the funds available to support the folks in need. So, it warmed my heart this past Saturday to witness an evening where hope soared. Soaring Spirits International successfully hosted an inspiring fundraiser […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing

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Self Compassion

Posted on: May 2, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

I once had a dream about hearing my heartbeat. What does it sound like? I wondered. Have I heard my heart beating today? Does it matter?   I can’t say in real life that I notice my heart beating.   Does it matter?   In another space the musing continues: Is the beating of our […]

Categories: Widowed, Newly Widowed, Widowed and Healing

Ocean water splashing on a huge rock.

Water On Rock

Posted on: April 26, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

A person’s life emerges from their experiences. The daily ups and downs craft our being like water on rock. We emerge—for better or worse—from countless decision points and random events that occur as we travel toward future. For most of us, the events of our lives are ours to ponder and not a matter of […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community

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Questioning in Pairs

Posted on: April 18, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

  Why does two years seem so short as time measures you gone?   Time. Infinitely short, yet excruciatingly long.   How is it that sometimes you’re near when you reside afar?   You. Elusive and unable to be summoned here at will.   Why do they say the veil is thin when most times […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Emotions

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The Dress

Posted on: April 11, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

From the Funeral A cute black dress came forward right on time. I was shopping (alone) for something to wear to the funeral for my husband of fifty-one years, nine months. I don’t enjoy shopping, so procrastination prevailed until the 11th hour. This smart black dress with just the right amount of sleeve and buttons […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Uncategorized

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Examining the Light Between Us

Posted on: April 5, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

In 2021 I was gifted a book written by Laura Lynn Jackson named SIGNS: The Secret Language of the Universe. The author is a psychic medium who penned the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven, Lessons for the Living. I found Laura Lynne unique among other mediums I’d met. Before […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One

woman in white floral long sleeve shirt with hands over heart

Our Beating Hearts

Posted on: March 29, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

It happened last night in a waking dream. The other day I was on a call about grief. In poetic prose, the speaker mentioned “hearing the beating of her heart.”  She repeated that phrase at least three times. I wonder. . . is the beating of our hearts a reminder? Returning to her words, I […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions

Hands holding one rock each with the word "Integrity" painted on each rock.

Camp Widow Serendipity . . .

Posted on: March 22, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

… a story. It was September of 2022 in Denver at the local community college. A widow, finding no support options in Mississippi, arrives via a road trip where Soaring Spirits is offering a one-day program for widowed people. What was she thinking when she arrived? She did not know a soul and discovered the […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community

View from the last row of a conference room at Camp Widow.

How Lucky Are We?

Posted on: March 15, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

The Wonder of a Camp for Widowed People (the sequel) It is truly a wonder that a camp for widowed people exists! In October 2021, after I attended my first camp, I wrote about it here. This is the sequel. Camp Widow is a safe place created by widowed people for widowed people. A place […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions

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