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Widowed Holidays

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

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A Love Letter

Posted on: February 15, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

After Valentine’s Day Hey love, I made it through another valentines day — so well, in fact, that I forgot it was Wednesday and I’m just writing this! Writing to you is always easier than writing to others, so here we are, my love, conversing online on the day after Valentine’s Day. Through the lens […]

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

It’s Not About the Roses

Posted on: February 14, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by Yoksel on Unsplash It’s Valentine’s Day already in some parts of the world. I know that the date fills a number of my fellow widbuds with Horror. Or Grief. Or Sadness. Or Resentment. There’s such “noise” around Valentine’s day in (at least Anglophone) parts of the world – it’s one of those many […]

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

Happily Paired, or “Quirkyalone”, Happy Valentines Day

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

Last Saturday, I was fortunate to join other local artists for an art gala in my local community. It had been many years since I’d exhibited at or had been involved in the organization of such an event. Congratulations to the members of the Osprey Cove Women’s Club, my fellow committee members and the supportive […]

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

In Praise of Love and Mountains

Posted on: January 17, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Photo and Art by Véronique Balcerzak After Mike died, I made an effort, particularly at Christmastime, to ensure there was a gift from him, not only for each of the kids, but also for myself. The first year, it was soft toy teddys made from his t-shirts. I remember that we needed some kind of […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Holidays, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Word of the Year

Posted on: January 16, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

In my very first post here I said I’ve never been a New Year resolution kind of gal. I still maintain that I am not. For me, the resolutions are too specific and confined that make me feel destined to fail. As a lifelong perfectionist failure is way outside my comfort zone. Over the last […]

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

Vacationing Without Him

Posted on: January 9, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

After the success of surprising my kids last year with a Christmas trip to Orlando, I decided to try it again this year. On Christmas morning, they woke up to a scavenger hunt that revealed we were going to Jamaica for 6 days over the holiday break. This time we had a few days before […]

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

Channelling Spirits this Christmas

Posted on: January 3, 2023 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by Rob Wicks on Unsplash Today is my first “me day” in a fat week. I have had eight (mostly enjoyable, if also busy) continuous days of catering and making, shopping and cooking, organising and preparing, washing and folding, sweeping and wiping, loading and unloading, and even socialising. But today, I said, more to […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Grief Is…a repost worth sharing

Posted on: January 2, 2023 | Posted by: Emily Vielhauer

This week was the first anniversary of Tony’s death. Despite the strange time warp of grief, I have pulled us along into the second year. One hour, one day, one week, one month at a time. I imagine the road ahead is counted in years instead of the grains of time, but time will tell. […]

Categories: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays

On Becoming a Sentimental Slob

Posted on: December 29, 2022 | Posted by: Gary Ravitz

I used to think I was such an emotional tough guy. It is true, of course, that I had sobbed in my bed like a baby on the night my grandmother died, after displaying what I thought had been laudable stoicism upon learning the news of her death earlier that day. I was eight years […]

Categories: Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Uncategorized

Slightly Lighter

Posted on: December 27, 2022 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Image by Caleb Woods on Unsplash I survived another Christmas Day. Woohoo! I survived yet another Christmas Day. I am impressed. And of all of the above words, the word “survived” is the one that least fits. Because, for the first time in 9 Christmases, it didn’t feel like “survival”. It wasn’t exactly singing and […]

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

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