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What Grows On

Posted on: March 25, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

My last two posts have focused on the inner workings and transformation of house, home and human in the wake of profound loss. It was so gratifying to see my post, “Staying in Place”, written earlier this month recently featured on the Facebook Page of Soaring Spirits, International, and to see it appreciated by those […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Hands holding one rock each with the word "Integrity" painted on each rock.

Camp Widow Serendipity . . .

Posted on: March 22, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

… a story. It was September of 2022 in Denver at the local community college. A widow, finding no support options in Mississippi, arrives via a road trip where Soaring Spirits is offering a one-day program for widowed people. What was she thinking when she arrived? She did not know a soul and discovered the […]

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

Staying in Place

Posted on: March 11, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

I remember the day I drove home from the hospital up in Brunswick, Georgia, with the hard realization that Rich would never be walking up to our front door again. That is a sobering and defining moment. During the 3 weeks he’d spent in the ICU, each drive home was filled with a glimmer of […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous

Resilience at One Year and Four Months

Posted on: February 18, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

It’s hard to believe that this will be my 21st Post for Widow’s Voice. Almost half a year of posting now. People ask if it’s hard to conjure up something new to write about each week. Sometimes it’s a bit challenging. Lot’s of energy goes in to a post. Usually I have an idea or […]

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

Valentines, Valentines, Valentines Everywhere . . .

Posted on: February 8, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

. . . it’s here again In trying to take stock of Valentine’s Day past, memory is fuzzy. Images come forward of our last V-Day together… Family room with hospital bed set up Candles Decorative hearts abound Did we eat? It seems a blip on the radar screen of a long goodbye with no clear […]

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

Inspiration from

Posted on: January 25, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

The Widow Clicquot Who was 4 and a half feet tall with light colored hair and grey eyes and stormed the champagne industry during the French Revolution? That’s right! Barbe-Nicole: The Lady Herself Barbe-Nicole was widowed in 1805, at the age of 23. Women of that time were not allowed to run a business, but […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community

Resilience

Posted on: January 11, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

What is resilience? the Sea asked the Rock   Ask the tree the Rock replied   What is Resilience? the Sea asked the Tree   We are it the Tree replied Sky, Tree, Plants, Rock, and Sea   each in our own way. Keep going.      

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community

Observance Breeds Awareness

Posted on: December 31, 2022 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

It seems like every day, week, and month there’s an official Awareness Observance for just about every thing under the sun. For instance, as I write we’re in the midst of Spiritual Literacy Month established in 1996 to encourage us to read books with spiritual themes, we are also currently in the middle of “It’s […]

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

Filling in the Gaps

Posted on: December 22, 2022 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

We buried my sister this past Monday.  The rabbi who performed her service never met her in life.  Nonetheless, based on anecdotal evidence she acquired from my sister’s two sons, her husband and myself, I thought she performed admirably and on short notice. I was struck by how each of us recalled her in our […]

Categories: Widowed Community, Uncategorized

Another Suicide Loss

Posted on: December 19, 2022 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

Last week, news broke that Stephen “tWitch” Boss died by suicide. As a survivor of suicide loss, each time I hear of someone else dying this way I feel a little crushed. It’s like my brain can’t process how or why this keeps happening to people. The subsequent days filled my news feeds with things […]

Categories: Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Suicide

Branching Out

Posted on: December 12, 2022 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

A month ago, I went to dinner with some college friends for my birthday. While we were having a pre-dinner drink at the bar, one of them suggest I check out an app called Meet Up. This friend never married or had children. As most of us were getting married and having babies, we weren’t […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous

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