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Child Loss

Community Grief

Posted on: August 19, 2024 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

Content Warning: Child loss and suicide   Today my heart broke. A family in my community lost their high school aged son to suicide. Details were sparse, but I knew a boy had died and he was about the same age as one of my sons. I sat with the knowledge quietly, as my head […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Suicide

Someone Elses Loss

Posted on: February 26, 2024 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

Content Warning: Child loss       I cannot write about my life today. A sweet 11-year-old little girl who attends the same elementary school as my kids, died from cancer this morning. I feel a melancholy settling over me as I process this news. I am not close with the family though we know […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

Endings, endings, endings everywhere

Posted on: July 11, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Main image by Ben Wicks on Unsplash One of my favourite “change” models (and I know quite a few) is that of Bill Bridges – and crucially, it’s called “Transitions”. I love this man’s work for so many reasons – not least because I trained for my first marathon, back in 1997, with his daughter […]

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

Four Years – p  l  e  a  s  e   let him be right

Posted on: July 4, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo my own Most of my death and dying, and grief and loss reading, has been in English. While my French is “fluent for a Brit”, it’s nowhere close to perfect, and by golly does grief take a cognitive toll. I don’t often willingly pick up a book in French – much less an “academic” […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Milestones, Multiple Losses

The trickiness of “How Are You?”

Posted on: June 27, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Yesterday, a fellow widbud, a woman I have never met but who someone connected with me, and who lost her husband just before Christmas 2022 after a very short illness, wrote the note below. I responded to her with both sharing some of my recent writing on this very […]

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

Time After Time After Time After Time

Posted on: June 20, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photos my own This is – and will continue to be – a weekend full of experiments. A lot of my life is still versions of experimentation, if not in the ways it was immediately post-loss(es) when even just venturing out of the front door and heading to the shops felt like an experiment. This […]

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

Press “send” for instant panic

Posted on: June 13, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Main image by Melanie Wasser on Unsplash Last Sunday, after I had arrived in Milos in the early morning but still too late to join the other intrepid swimmers for all day open-water swimming, I just pootled around. It was a blissfully leisurely day. I enjoyed a second breakfast, unpacked my belongings, had two short […]

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

Παρακαλώ και ευχαριστώ

Posted on: June 6, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Main image by Sergio Garcia on Unsplash Back in the very early 1980s – or perhaps it was even the very late 1970s – I am not entirely sure… my mum started to learn Greek. I don’t know why she started, (nor why she eventually stopped), but she engaged a private teacher who showed up […]

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

“The relationship I always wanted….”

Posted on: May 30, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo of my parents in 1961 in Córdoba, Spain – from their archives Medjool and I have just had a lovely 10 day “working break”, based mostly at my parents’ house in Céret in the Pyrénées Orientales, just inside France on the Franco-Spanish border. Now into their 80s, I try to get down to spend […]

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

I wish I could better imagine…

Posted on: May 23, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photos my own – taken at Christmas 2022, on runs with my dad Sometimes I stop short in my tracks and realise with desperate sadness that I can no longer imagine what my life would be like with Mike were he still alive. In the last years since he died, I have lived through what […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

What do Mother’s Day, Handy Men, T-shirts and Jazz have in common?

Posted on: May 16, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo my own   You might well ask. Well, one answer, and the only one I have right now, is that these words, or words related to them, are on sticky notes, forming a dense, colourful and messy pile, worthy of investing in 3M. I am trying to reduce my use of sticky notes, but […]

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

The School Bus That Thumps Me In The Gut

Posted on: May 9, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Music, yes – of course music does it. Lyrics or no lyrics – same same. Places too. And faces – duh. All of those are triggers – triggers for a fast tumble down a Grief-soaked spiral. But the evening school bus? School buses, in fact, for there were two a day – one for kids […]

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

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