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Widowed and Healing

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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

“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

Rollercoaster of Life

Posted on: May 29, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

This week, I attended the 8th grade field trip to our local theme park. I was assigned a group of kids to check in with through the day, but they didn’t have to be actively chaperoned. So, with an entire day to spend in the park I found myself on a few rides. Hold on […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, 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

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

Happy Dog Mom’s Day

Posted on: May 13, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

“…in some magical way, time seems to stand still for our canines, and that they will love, need, and appreciate you, fur-ever.” With the passing of my father two weeks ago, I’ve been occupied with many family matters and trying to help my mother who is now one of the 800,000 people who become widowed […]

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

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

Funeral Attendance

Posted on: May 8, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

I went to a funeral this morning. That right there could be the whole post, right? Two years later and it’s still hard to sit through one without transporting myself back in time. The funeral was for a relative of Tony’s who I didn’t know that well. Therefore, I was there as a supporter versus […]

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

A Life Well-lived

Posted on: May 6, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

  Last Saturday, at 2:45am I received a phone call. I could tell by the sender that it brought the inevitable news that my father had passed. My dad had been under hospice care for approximately three weeks, and although the circumstances of their passings differed, it struck me that both he and Rich had […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed Community

woman with hand over her heart, eyes closed.

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: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing

Credits

Posted on: May 2, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo my own screenshot  A long, long time ago, back in the last millennium, in the time when there were dinosaurs, and during the 7 month period between 1997 and 1998 where I had a brilliantly exciting expat assignment in Minneapolis, I met a lovely woman called Betsy. She was first a colleague then became […]

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

One Last Meal

Posted on: May 1, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

If you’ve been widowed a hot minute, you know there are many first and lasts you experience over the years after your partners death. This might sound weird to some people but Sunday evening the kids and I ate the last of Tony’s barbeque. Smoked sausage and brisket burnt ends to be exact. We spent […]

Categories: Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings, Widowed Emotions

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