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Getting Back on the Write Road and a Tribute to Lonnie Hull Dupont

Posted on: December 2, 2023 | Posted by: Lisa Begin-Kruysman

As I resettle in to life in to life in a log home in rural Florida, my creativity is encouraged by the slower pace of life and natural beauty of this area. Unpacking more boxes, I recently came upon a stash of books, mostly animal-rescue anthologies published by the Revell-Baker Group to which I’d contributed […]

Categories: Widowed Memories, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Coffee mug that says "Hold on to the Love."

Unexpected Weeping Session

Posted on: November 28, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Arrives as Gift   It all started with a parrot, followed by two or more yapping chihuahuas. A din. The parrot screamed: Mom! Mom! Incessant barking sounded through the fence as loud, or louder, than a pack of small dogs sounding an alarm at close range. Were they being corralled? Or ostracized from being cozy […]

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

Sailing the Seas

Posted on: November 28, 2023 | Posted by: Diana Mosson

Last year after we celebrated the twins’ birthday for the first year without Erik, I realized sitting in the quiet aftermath of the party that I did not want to do this anymore moving forward. I didn’t want to throw birthday parties the way we used to, without my husband, mostly as the twins share […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Suicide, Uncategorized

Entering My Cat Lady Era

Posted on: November 27, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

Welp. I am no longer a cat lady without any cats. A week and a half ago I caved and said yes to adopting a cat. The cat belonged to my friend’s mom who passed away a little over a month ago. My friend reached out after his mom took a turn for the worst. […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed by Suicide

giant sequoia with prose written on the bard.

the seed of me

Posted on: November 21, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

what shape waits . . . the shape of what was what is what will be transformation. how am I different? or the same? in the seed of you . . . the seed of me of sorrow of grief of survival of resilience of gratitude i am the seed of yesterdays i am the […]

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

Colder Weather

Posted on: November 21, 2023 | Posted by: Diana Mosson

With my second Thanksgiving without Erik right around the corner, I find myself getting multiple flashbacks of all our past Thanksgivings. Thanksgiving was the first time I introduced Erik to my family a decade ago. The thought of another year with an empty seat with his name on it sets in more this second time […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Suicide, Uncategorized

Church of Beginnings and Endings

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

About three weeks ago, I attended a funeral at the church where Tony and I were married. It was the first time I had been in that church since his passing. The service that day was for one our close friend’s mother. So I was there in a supporting role versus a griever. As I […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Suicide

One Thousand Five Hundred Twenty-Seven

Posted on: November 16, 2023 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

It’s a recurring theme for me: something occurs that roils my emotional waters, instantly flooding me with dark memories of grief-filled days when the icy reality of Lee’s death occupied my every waking moment. Such emotional waves are not connected to a specific date, place, or occasion, but rather surface unexpectedly, and can be triggered […]

Categories: Widowed Emotions, Uncategorized

newborn infant swaddled in green blanket

Things They’ve Missed

Posted on: November 14, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Or Have They? There are plenty of things about widowhood that are “stage” reliant. How many days, weeks, or months its been since our person died. How many years since they left us. But the category of “things they missed” seems to come round no matter the specifics of time. It’s a category that never […]

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

Where is Daddy?

Posted on: November 14, 2023 | Posted by: Diana Mosson

Repost! Each day still takes my breath away a little. Each realization that Erik is no longer here and it truly is just me and the twins now. There is no escaping this reality or pretending it isn’t true any longer. What I didn’t realize was how soon the questions would come. Where is daddy, […]

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

When They Call You Mrs

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

I don’t find myself in many situations where there is an opportunity for me to be addressed formerly. 99.9% of the time I answer to Emily and Mom. Thankfully, my boys haven’t started calling me Bruh…yet. Last week I was volunteering at the elementary school for the bookfair. The kids get to shop or browse […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Suicide, Uncategorized

Settling In

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

It was a busy week and last night I realized that I had no draft for today’s Post, a first in my year plus of Saturdays when I’d just push the Publish button. So today follows the theme of new starts, habits and outlooks in true form. I will randomly write on. On Thursday, I […]

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Military Widowed, Uncategorized

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