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Fun in Funeral?

Posted on: May 28, 2022 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

I booked the flight for Clayton’s funeral last night. It’s bothering me because a funeral isn’t supposed to be 4 years after someone passes. The celebration of life we had originally planned was put on pause and so has a lot of my growing through grief. Searching for flights and making travel arrangements didn’t cause […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Without Children, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Widowed by Illness

THINKING ABOUT

Posted on: May 25, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

BRAVERY What does it mean to be brave? Definition of bravery 1 : the quality or state of having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty : the quality or state of being brave : courage showing bravery under fire. As I write I am on the doorstep of the Memorial Day […]

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

Comfortably Run

Posted on: May 24, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Edward’s 53rd Birthday Comfortably run. No, not a typo.  Simply a not particularly brilliant nod to Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”. I do indeed mean that I am comfortably run. By a 10 km road run. I am more than a little bit pooped. I can’t remember the last time I did a 10 km. I […]

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

Widowed Reading

Posted on: May 23, 2022 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

As an adult, I have always been an avid reader. I started a book club in 2012 that met monthly for a solid 7 years. My friends would tease me that any books they picked I’d already read. This was always fine with me. I could still talk about the book they chose, and it […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed by Suicide

The Department of Care-Griever Collections (DCGC)

Posted on: May 21, 2022 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

I’ve brought up some of the ins and outs of being a care-griever. I can’t speak to the emotions that come with sudden loss but I can speak about the experience watching someone you love slowly fade. Being a caregiver for Clayton I had the outward goal to provide him comfort for the rest of […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Without Children, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Widowed by Illness

Route 66

Posted on: May 18, 2022 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

After this past Winter I have resolved that next year, I am getting out of Dodge. It is not merely the frequent snowstorms, or the relentless cold, or the shearing wind, or the constant overcast skies and dreary days, or the mess on the ground, or even the necessity of layers of heavy, cumbersome weather […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Uncategorized

Exploring

Posted on: May 18, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

The Puzzle of Time Sitting at my desk, on May 17th (a Tuesday) at 8:48 pm Pacific Standard Time. The day flew by with little to count for it. Tomorrow we are mid-week as another week flies by. Time . . . Time is a wily character. It flies when you hope it will crawl. […]

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

Too Stubborn

Posted on: May 16, 2022 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

This week I was reminded of just how stubborn I can be. On Thursday, May 5th, I stepped wrong on an uneven sidewalk and went down hard, presumably twisting my ankle. No one saw it and I sat there a good 5 minutes trying to recover. Right there on the sidewalk, the impact of this […]

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

A Frightening Game

Posted on: May 14, 2022 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

I think it is important to continue to evaluate your emotions as you travel further forward into the future leaving behind that milestone marked as your new start – AL (After Loss). We categorize our lives on timelines and anniversaries of all types. My cathartic calendar holds holidays, birthdays, reunions, and all kinds of anniversaries. […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Without Children, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Widowed by Illness

Daydreaming.

Posted on: May 13, 2022 | Posted by: Victoria Helmly

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if Boris came back to life now. If he just appeared again, alive and starting where he left off. Maybe he was never dead. Maybe he was just away. I have little daydreams about this pretty often (And, sometimes my subconscious joins in and I have vivid […]

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

Strategies for life

Posted on: May 11, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

and hope . . . Looking out my window before dawn I witness evidence of surviving grief.   Abstract but authentic proof of something deep inside that insists upon living fully alive.   Twinkle lights. Twinkle lights bordering the walls of a secret garden.   In the Year of our Lord, two thousand twenty one […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Therapy

Deeply, Genuinely Happy

Posted on: May 10, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Main image by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash It’s not the kind of thing that we go around saying, is it? At least not the Brits. At least not most Western Europeans. And at least not on a regular, ongoing basis. Sure – we hear people say it, we might say it ourselves, when something specific […]

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

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