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Widowed Anniversaries

Our Anniversary, Number 16 and Number 2

Posted on: March 20, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

  Friday would have been our 16th wedding anniversary and it’s the 2nd one he’s missed. The last two years I have intentionally been away from home on St. Patrick’s Day. Last year, the kids and I went to Florida to visit my parents. This year we spent a long weekend in the Ozarks with […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions

My Blogiversary

Posted on: March 13, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

This post marks my one-year anniversary as a writer for the Widow’s Voice. 52 weeks of sharing my journey with fellow widowed people and our support networks that follow this blog. There are weeks I start to write this and I’m not sure what direction it’ll go. Other times, I know exactly what has been […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Emotions

March-ing Forth with The Memory Keepers

Posted on: March 4, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

February was a busy time on several fronts. The local Art Gala that had taken months of committee work and preparation for me as an organizer and participating artist was a great success. The hard work, anxiety and anticipation over. Just a few days later, my brother and his wife arrived in Georgia for a […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses

The Art of Celebrating a Life Well-Lived

Posted on: February 4, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

Today my late husband Rich will celebrate a birthday in the Afterlife. I don’t know how birthday anniversaries are celebrated in that world, but down here I will be celebrating the occasion in a unique and personal way by participating in my first art event since I can’t even recall. Thinking June of 2019. As […]

Categories: Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings

Getting Back

Posted on: January 28, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

One of the biggest challenges of adjusting to life as a widow is trying to hold on to the memory of the life you had as part of a long-time couple while trying to remember the “Me” before “We”. In my case, recalling the latter is tied closely to the former. Last week I started […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous

Ruff Times and Holidays

Posted on: December 24, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

“The presence and companionship of dogs, the observation of their playful tactics has helped patients on their way back to normal thinking and living.” Captain Wm. Lewis Judy,Founder of National Dog Week (1928) and long time publisher of Dog World Magazine. I realized the other day that as the Saturday Widow’s Voice poster I’d be […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous

Two Additional Years

Posted on: December 13, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by Kristopher Fuller on Unsplash Today I have lived two full years longer than Mike lived. He never quite made 20,000 days, and I am now well over that milestone. I have been lucky to have… 730 additional days 17,520 additional hours 10,512,000 additional minutes 63,072,000 additional seconds …as compared with what Mike had. […]

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

Some Holidays are Better Than Others

Posted on: November 26, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

One of the most difficult parts of the mourning process many widowed people experience is the loss of future occasions including holidays and anniversaries. We find ourselves listening to long-time married friends, family members and colleagues as they speak glowingly of their trips and celebrations of decades spent in togetherness. While we are truly happy […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses

Waters of Significance

Posted on: November 19, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

  In last Saturday’s post, I shared the continuing process of spreading my late husband’s cremains throughout multiple watery locations. Choosing these meaningful places for this journey has been an important step for me, and others, in the mourning progress and honoring Rich as he’d wished to be.   As a watery theme had run […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous

Good Thoughts and Prayers

Posted on: October 29, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

I’ve found it difficult to recall the rapidly unfolding events that occurred this week one year ago.  The beautiful fall weather in the South features lack of the nearly year-round humidity. Clear Cerulean Blue skies. The Scarecrow Festival in downtown St. Marys, GA, the place I now call home.  I wasn’t able to recall experiencing […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Widowed by Illness, Uncategorized

The Unconclusive Conclusion

Posted on: September 24, 2022 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

While writing this blog, I was forced to revisit and relive more than just my widowed walk. I dove back in time through many memories I had forgotten or hidden. In reflecting back, how ironic was it that I rushed through the four years of high school and the four years of college only now […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Without Children, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Take Me to Church

Posted on: September 13, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photos my own, taken at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Geneva, Switzerland Yesterday, unusually, I went to church. Twice. And I spoke. From the pulpit. Yes – really. I had been invited – some six or more months ago – to speak at the Holy Trinity Church in Geneva, an Anglican church. As often […]

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

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