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Sometimes Healing Hurts

Posted on: May 18, 2009 | Posted by: Michele Neff Hernandez

When a friend is sick you hope they will get well soon. If you know someone who has cancer, you might pray fervently for them to be cured. After you’ve had surgery, a friend might call to tell you they hope you will heal quickly. But what about when someone dies. What do we wish then? After Phil’s death I feared getting better. I didn’t want to get…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

As Promised… Question #19

Posted on: May 17, 2009 | Posted by: Michele Neff Hernandez

When did you clean out your husband’s closet? (For our new readers: Over the past several years I have interviewed many widows about their day-to-day life after the loss of their husbands. I asked all of the women I spoke to the same fifty questions, all practical inquiries about everyday life. Many readers have asked me to share my answers to…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

Shovel Time

Posted on: May 16, 2009 | Posted by: Taryn Davis

I made the choice to go into my office to throw the bundles of trash I have stacked in different places all over the room. One bag had a can of his dip that he left over R&R, bundles of every receipt from when he was here, and the lip gloss I wore when I was able to kiss his lips. I got through many of the boxes which led me to the closet…the…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Military Widowed, Widowed Suddenly

A Lighter Shade of Grey ….

Posted on: May 13, 2009 | Posted by: Janine Eggers

Today’s post is really for all of the “newer” women who are on this path …… the one we didn’t want to be on, the club we didn’t want to join. I was trying to think of what to say to a new friend whose husband died a few months ago.  She is in the middle of what I call the “black”.  I am not a veteran in this process, by any stretch of the…

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

Celebrating Moms

Posted on: May 10, 2009 | Posted by: Michele Neff Hernandez

Sports practices, music lessons, school meetings, homework, school projects, dinner every night, getting multiple children to different locations at the same start time, crying for daddy, asking where he went, consoling, advising, figuring out what the best solution to the problem is when you only have one opinion to consider….any of this sound…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Suddenly

Innocence and Storytelling

Posted on: May 3, 2009 | Posted by: Michele Neff Hernandez

This is my four year-old nephew Ethan posing with his beloved cousin Caitlin. Yesterday we celebrated several family events with a day at the park. In a quiet moment Ethan and I had a conversation that went like this…. E: Auntie Neechelle, where is your husband? M: Well E, my husband was your Uncle Phil and he died when you were just a baby.

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Suddenly

Take My Hand

Posted on: April 30, 2009 | Posted by: Nicole Hart

I had sand all over my feet and the wind in my face. My eyes were closed as I stretched my arms out wide as I could and I balanced against the railing of the life guard tower. I held my palms up as if waiting… expecting David to take them, I almost felt as though he did. I took deep, careful breaths… I wanted David. I caught myself whispering,…

Categories: Widowed, Military Widowed, Widowed Suddenly

Regrets?

Posted on: April 29, 2009 | Posted by: Janine Eggers

I’ve been thinking about regrets a lot lately.  Not about Jim and me.  No way.  He knew that he was seriously loved and adored …… as did I.  I have no regrets about us and our marriage, other than it wasn’t long enough ….. not by a long shot.  This past weekend was our youngest child’s (Son #3) Confirmation.  This was our first…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Suddenly

Unimaginable

Posted on: April 27, 2009 | Posted by: Michele Neff Hernandez

My life path has never included poverty. Or prejudice. Or destitution. Or the feeling that my current life position was all I could ever expect. Overall, I have been greatly blessed. I live in a country where widows are able to inherit, own property, pursue a career, and manage their own affairs. Though prior to my introduction to the global state…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Suddenly

W.S.M.

Posted on: April 25, 2009 | Posted by: Taryn Davis

What is a W.S.M.? A little acronym I came up with which stands for: Widow Soul Mate After losing Michael I had the fear of never meeting anyone else who could or would understand the pain, love, and grief that I was feeling. Luckily with my line of work, I have met many amazing people who are the epitome of survivors. In my travels through…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Military Widowed, Widowed Suddenly

It is birthday weekend.

Posted on: April 23, 2009 | Posted by: Nicole Hart

David and I were born only two days apart, out of all the years I’ve known him we’ve only been able to spend 3 birthdays together… Our 16th, our 21st, and our 22nd birthdays… (Picture taken at Six Flags California, April 2006, our 21st Birthdays) Previously, I looked forward to new years to come, new challenges… another birthday… life.

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Military Widowed, Widowed Suddenly

Things Change …..

Posted on: April 22, 2009 | Posted by: Janine Eggers

… whether you want them to or not. I mean —- obviously, right? I decided to carry forward with both Michele’s post and Michelle’s post. After Jim died I never considered removing my wedding rings. Never. I felt it would be on my finger forever. And for many, many months it was. And then one day ….. that feeling changed. I know that I am still…

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