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Staci Sulin

About Staci Sulin

It is my privilege to write to you each week and I hope my blog inspires you to lean into your grief. This isn't easy, but it is the only way through this mess.

I believe that we are lead back towards life and living when we allow ourselves to be still, and sit in the "nothingness" where grief lives. Visiting this empty place is difficult, but it is necessary. This quiet place holds the blueprints of our new, alternate life.

I know you are scared to go to the edge of this place; admittedly, I was too. But, in order to reenter life, we have to take a leap of faith. With time, I gathered momentum and I took the leap - building my wings on the way down.

It has been nearly five years since Mike died and I realize that what I feared most about the future was not the obvious uncertainties; but, rather, the possibility of letting new beginnings and a good life to pass me by. I was afraid that I would settle into an ordinary life when I want an extraordinary life.

I worried that I would play small, when my potential is big. As I write to you each week I am challenging us both not to shrink. I am keeping us accountable. I do not want either of us to fall back into an easy comfortableness when we can leap forward, towards a bold life. I want you to manifest the best in yourself. Go on, begin to recreate a beautiful life for yourself.

From the Ledge with Wings in Hand,

Staci

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My Farewell Blog…

Posted on: March 7, 2022 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

This will be my last blog.  My life has become so full that I no longer have the necessary time to dedicate to writing.  This is so very different than in the recent past when I had too much time on my hands.  I distinctly remember the feel of those days when I had nowhere […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

Winds of Change – Part of living

Posted on: February 28, 2022 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

I originally wrote this blog five years ago on February12, 2018 to be exact.  If you have followed my writing, reading this, you will recognize the evolution of grief.  Over the years, the content of my writing has changed along with the tone of my grief.  This blog highlights how grief can change with time.

As always, I hope my blog helps; and I think those who are just beginning down the path of grief will especially relate to the words I wrote so long ago.

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly, Uncategorized

Resurfacing 2022

Posted on: February 21, 2022 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

I originally had these thoughts in January of 2021.  And, a lot has changed since this time.  It is true that a lot can happen in a year’s time.  If you told me how different my life would become in a year I would not have believed you.  I reread this blog and I stand […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

Who am I Revisited…

Posted on: February 14, 2022 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

This is the first blog I ever wrote for Widow’s Voice.  I wrote this on December 11, 2017.  A lot of time has past since I first wrote these words but what remains true is that I am still asking questions.   ~S.    Life after the death of the person you love demands that you […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

Holding Pattern broken

Posted on: February 7, 2022 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

I wrote about feeling restless in year three and I am happy to say that this restlessness has disappeared for the most part now that I am in year five+ of this widowhood thing. Grief changes thankfully.  I am no longer consumed by emptiness and sadness is not my baseline anymore.  For me, life is […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly, Uncategorized

Coffee and Changes

Posted on: January 31, 2022 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

One Sunday morning in 2019, I stood staring into the cupboard.  My eyes saw all the familiar coffee mugs lined up.  Though they are inanimate objects, the mugs seem to be shamelessly shouting “pick me” from their distinguished spots on the shelf.   *Sigh.    Which one should I select.  Which mug do I want […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Uncategorized

Beginnings Revisited

Posted on: January 24, 2022 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

I did not die.

And, neither did you. 

I am still breathing. 

And, so are you.

It’s that plain. 

I can make his death as complicated as I want to, but really it is simple. 

Mike died.  I didn’t.

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

A Grief of My Own – 2022 Addendum

Posted on: January 16, 2022 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

I wrote the original blog in August of 2020 and a lot has changed in my life since then, but this blog is still so very relevant.  I have added my current thoughts into the original piece to highlight how grief is not static. The process of grief is long.  Much longer than I thought […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Uncategorized

Building My Wings on the Way Down Reflection

Posted on: January 3, 2022 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

I wrote this post in 2018 and included an addendum at the end for how things feel this year, in 2022. Ringing in the new year without you is something I never want to do.  This year, or ever.  No matter how much time passes, no matter how my life changes; and no matter where […]

Categories: Uncategorized

Season of Hope

Posted on: December 20, 2021 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

Staci was not able to write this week so we are featuring a post originally written in 2020. Hope you enjoy! In my fifth year of widowhood,  I am trying to focus on who I am becoming.  I will not pretend that I am  “okay” without him.  I am not.  However, I am not entirely […]

Categories: Uncategorized

Dimes and Change

Posted on: December 6, 2021 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

Yesterday, the new man in my life was packing up our vehicles while I was tidying up and readying the house to leave.  While he was outside, I went about gathering together an assortment of our things to place near the front door.   As I was putting some of our belongings in the foyer I saw […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Uncategorized

Fly me to the Moon

Posted on: November 29, 2021 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

For years, I asked a lot of the moon. Every.single.night I stood outside and searched the night sky for traces of him. I stood and waited to feel him. I searched the night for him because I thought my heart would shatter from his absence.  For the first years, many nights, I’d drop to my […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

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