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Widowed Birthdays

Another Birthday Letter to Boris

Posted on: March 10, 2023 | Posted by: Victoria Helmly

Boris,  Today you should be turning 32. I feel like I need to catch you up on what life is like right now, on what would be your 32nd birthday, but I kind of feel like you already know? (I am not really sure how the Other Side/Heaven works) Long story short, the world is […]

Categories: Widowed Birthdays

Taking the Longview

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

It is pretty special to be able to post on the occasion of my birthday. I note that today, Saturday January 14, is also Organize Your Home Day, an Awareness Observances that encourages us to declutter our homes, lives and ultimately our minds. Last year, on this very day, my family house in Hackensack, New […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses

Dear Boris, it’s the holiday season again.

Posted on: December 2, 2022 | Posted by: Victoria Helmly

Dear Boris, It’s the holiday season, which means a lot of things. It means everyone is feeling excited and cozy, and things feel busy and stressful. And I always loved the holidays until you died. And the holidays now have a sting. They might always hurt a little, even if the joy of the holidays […]

Categories: Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Holidays

Birthdays Can Be The Worst Days

Posted on: November 7, 2022 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

Last Wednesday was Tony’s 2nd birthday since his passing. He should have been 45 but he is immortalized at 43. Having already checked off a birthday without him last year, I thought I was mentally ready for this day. I was wrong. When I woke up on the 2nd, I felt the weight of the […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Suicide

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

A Pyrenean Adventure Written in Thumb and Swype

Posted on: August 30, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

27 August 2022 I thought I would pull together the various updates I posted on to Facebook when I had occasional internet access during our Pyrenean Haute Route – begun last summer, and completed this year. Inspired by my dad John and my uncle Ian who completed it in well into their 60s (in one […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Holidays, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

happy birthday babe

Posted on: August 24, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

in relation to the years, i feel small marking the memories. i remember when you taught me to light the oven in our first O’Keefe & Merritt stove–light the match, hold the flame to the small hole at the bottom of the oven, turn on the gas. i thought i might blow up the house […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays

A Guest House – A Birthday –

Posted on: August 17, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

and Two Questions How is it possible that Dan’s birthday–the second since his death–is already coming up eleven days from now? Surreal. As a mom of seven, I am used to the arrival of ideas from one or another of my children. How to accomplish one solution or another…what flourishes to add–or ways to contain–an […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones

Growing Through Grief with Gratitude

Posted on: July 16, 2022 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

Yesterday I felt like I hit the grief guardrail at 75 miles an hour. I knew it was coming and I knew I couldn’t turn fast enough. It was emotionally inevitable and, as much as I wanted to avoid it, I also have been needing it. It was an intimate group of family and friends […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Widowed by Illness

My Past in My Future

Posted on: July 2, 2022 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

I don’t know how to navigate this. I don’t know how to balance out this future placed bereavement. I have been pressuring myself to “figure it out” because I feel overwhelmed by a lot in life right now. Something has to give or I’m going to crash. My daily routines are way off, and I’ve […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Widowed by Illness

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

Forever Young

Posted on: April 19, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Main image by Angello Pro on Unsplash Today is not only Easter Day. It’s also our lovely Megan’s 21st birthday. Her sixth birthday without her father. Her 16th birthday was just nine days after her dad died. Finding a date for Mike’s funeral in 2017 was so very hard. There is a “minimum” time required […]

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

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