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Healing Support Tools: The Labyrinth

May 31, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

woman standing at the edge of a small outdoor labyrinth.

Labyrinths represent a journey or path to our own center and back again. The labyrinth serves as a metaphor for life’s journey. —Healing Consciousness Foundation What is a labyrinth? There are many definitions for the word “labyrinth”. One simple way to explain it is “a series of circuitous paths that lead to the center and […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed depression, healing for widowed, anxiety, widowhood and moving forward, widowed fears, hope for widowed

Here Comes Everybody

May 24, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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When my children were little, our youngest son always seemed to make a friend wherever he went. The library, in the aisles of the grocery store, or even while waiting for a prescription at the pharmacy. He was wired for seeing children in his world as “little-while friends.” When I attended Camp Widow, not long […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: anxiety, memories, widowed community, widowed fears, hope for widowed, milestones, healing for widowed

Camp Widow Serendipity . . .

March 22, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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

… 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 […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community Tagged With: sadness, newly widowed, widowed community, hope for widowed, healing for widowed, anxiety, Travel

Snow Anxiety

February 26, 2023 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

This is going to be short and sweet this week, because our life lately consists of prepping for the latest round of snow, after just getting pelted with the LAST round of snow before that one. And so on and so on until the end of time. Or, hopefully, another 3 weeks or so, when […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: anxiety, Sudden Loss, heart attack, grief triggers, snow

Regrouping After Trauma

December 28, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Step By Step Professionals who write about trauma these days say that when a person experiences a trauma (small or large) it is important to allow the trauma to “keep moving through” our psyche. Last week I experienced a trauma that bumped into a bigger trauma that looms in my life—Death. Death was present in […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: hope for widowed, widowed grief triggers, milestones, healing for widowed, anxiety

A Collision of Griefs

December 20, 2022 by Kathie Neff 1 Comment

COLLISION implies the coming together of two or more things with such force that both or all are damaged or their progress is severely impeded. —Merriam Webster Not a great day today. Not an actual collision, but a collision of complications connected with the death of my husband. If I were to name it, were […]

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: anxiety, widowed sadness

Mostly Sweet

September 13, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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Bittersweet Memories Camp Widow’s Pop-Up in Denver was a great success. SO MANY of the yellow name tags which indicate first time campers. Some drove from Mississippi, Texas, and even New York, for this “taste” of what Camp Widow offers. It was a privilege to welcome those waiting in line at the registration table–unsure of […]

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: triggers, #CampCrash, #DelayedTriggers, widowed grief triggers, anxiety, memories, widowed sadness

BREATHE WHEN LATE!

September 7, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes—by Walter Kirn Susan Hannifin-MacNab found me at my desk this morning, buried under a long to-do list, fully captured by the computer work I was lost in, and in my imagination she whispered….Kathie! It’s blog day and you’re late! Holy Moly! “Take a breath,” I heard her […]

Filed Under: Widowed Tagged With: anxiety

Fall Down Seven Times

August 3, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Stand Up Eight On this early morning I am thinking about death. The loss of my beloved life-partner demonstrated death to me on the closest level possible. Which takes me to the next thought, I, too, will die. Thoughts such as this come without warning, arriving like fog. One day they are far from your […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed fears, healing for widowed, anxiety, newly widowed

Grit and Grace

February 3, 2020 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

My foundation shifted and collapsed when he died. I buried Mike, but it was me who was buried alive by the wreckage of our dilapidated life.    For a long time I thought that maybe if I stood still he’d come for me.  I thought he would somehow find me and save me from the ruins of our lost life.  Then, after a while, I realized that Mike was…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Uncategorized Tagged With: widowed fears, healing for widowed, anxiety, sadness, widowhood and moving forward

Skeletons in the Closet

February 1, 2020 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

  Well it’s almost 2 years now and I finally gave in. I haven’t really gone through our closet since Tin passed away.  Each time I’d go in the closet I would feel like there were skeletons about to grab me. I’d choke up seeing a jacket he wore, a scarf he wrapped, a shirt that was there for a special event we had together. Sometimes I…

Filed Under: Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: widowed depression, widowhood and moving forward, unmarried widow, memories, widowed grief triggers, widowed guilt, widower, young widow, milestones, healing for widowed, anxiety, sadness, widowed fears, LGBTQ Widowed, hope for widowed, Widowed Lonliness

So Far Away

January 20, 2020 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

Lately, Mike feels so far away.  It is very hard to properly describe, but I will give it a try.  He has taken on the feel of a memory.  Now, Mike feels like more of a memory than my person.  I feel lousy admitting this.  It sort of feels like he is dying all over again. In my head, Mike feels like someone who lived once upon a time – in…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: healing for widowed, anxiety, sadness, widowhood and moving forward, memories, widowed suddenly, hope for widowed, widowed grief triggers, young widow

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