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Widowed Signs from Loved One

The Unlikely Squirrel

Posted on: December 13, 2020 | Posted by: Victoria Helmly

Last week my therapist asked me if I felt Boris’s presence lately. I thought about it for a moment and then realized the answer was no. It had been a while since something happened that felt like a sign from him or his presence was there. Over the past 2.5 years, I’ve heard specific songs […]

Categories: Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One

Faith In Fingerprints 

Posted on: November 21, 2020 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

Since Tin’s passing, many have said he is with me, many have said he’s moving things in and out of my path to help make things easier and more successful for me. On many occasions, I have found pennies, dimes, seen cardinals, butterflies and got a call or text just at the moment I needed […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Widowed by Suicide

A Huge Moment in Northwest Texas~

Posted on: October 28, 2020 | Posted by: Alison Miller

It was completely unexpected.  My first road trip since the pandemic began. I wasn’t towing my pink trailer, but I did add a bunch of decals to my pink car, deciding that my car needs to represent my Odyssey of Love just as much as my trailer does, covered as it is with the hundreds […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Military Widowed, Widowed by Illness

The Gates of Grief

Posted on: August 8, 2020 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

I realize I have gotten to a point where I go through my week, head down and pushing things back to keep grief at bay. The weekend hits and my first day is full of errands and obligations but my second day is dedicated to allowing the gates of grief to open when I write […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Widowed by Illness

Embracing the Detours

Posted on: July 19, 2020 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

This year has meant a lot of detours for many. For all of us who are widowed, the metaphor of a detour is a bold one… the idea of the road being closed ahead and suddenly we are to choose a new direction…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Multiple Losses

Lost Belonging

Posted on: May 23, 2020 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

When I was in high school, I had one guy friend named Matt. He was the only guy that gave this outgoing, unconventional kid a chance. The feeling of belonging holds tight space in my heart. I was supposed to have lunch one day with Matt but he didn’t come to school. At the last […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Belongings, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, LGBTQ+ Widowed, Widowed by Illness, Multiple Losses

Mothers’ Day

Posted on: May 10, 2020 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

This is the sixth Mother’s day since Megan’s death.  Shelby is now starting to actually outgrow her mother’s shoes, and she’s almost as tall at 13 as Megan was at 33.  She looks like her.  A real “bean pole” right now.  At this age, she’s more concerned about video games, reading, riding her bike, and texting her friends than anything else.  From the outside looking in, it’s almost as-if she’s forgotten about her mother.

Categories: Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed by Illness

Messages from Mike

Posted on: April 21, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

There seems to come a time in life for those of us who do not grow up with formal religion – and perhaps it’s triggered by loss and hardship, perhaps by age – where we search for meaning in losses and in life, and messages or clues that there might be something before and after […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Multiple Losses

Safe

Posted on: March 16, 2020 | Posted by: Staci Sulin

I miss him all the time, but right now with all the uncertainty in the world I feel even more alone because of his absence.  The truth is, Mike would have loved being quarantined with me.  And, I would have liked it too.  Like always, we would have made the best of it together. The other day, as I wandered aimlessly through the grocery store, I wished Mike was there with me.  He’d have made me laugh.  He’d even have made shopping during the Coronavirus “fun” because he’d be saying all sorts of goofy things to me as we walked through the dishevelled aisles.

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Uncategorized

Picking at Grief Scabs

Posted on: March 3, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

February is weird. Always slightly off. As a kid, I found it weird that there were only 28 days in the month. Then 29 days just as we were getting used to the 28 day pattern. I wondered in awe at the brilliance of the scientists from so long ago who figured out that we […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed Community, Multiple Losses

Someone else’s memories *sigh*

Posted on: February 6, 2020 | Posted by: Bryan Martin

Just an ordinary widowed day. Get up, brush my teeth, look at the dishes and laundry I didn’t have time to do, *sigh*, take the dog out – Pretty standard these days. Roan and I start our walk grabbing a bag because we pick up after ourselves. Well actually I clean up after us. Just me. No one to help. *sigh*.  We walk the same way every morning…

Categories: Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One

Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds

Posted on: January 30, 2020 | Posted by: Jeff Ziegler

In most other languages, the onomatopoeia that we use to describe these birds does not exist. We call them hummingbirds because, like flip flops and ping pong, it describes the noise made rather than the name of the thing itself. The word most other languages use instead is “Colibri”. This is significant for two reasons. One, I find the word more…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Signs from Loved One

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