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Social Media Inspiration

January 24, 2020 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

After awhile, our friends and family don’t get the daily loss reminders we do. I get these strong urges to post on social media and remind them but those posts have evolved into a way to try and help anyone who needs it. This week, as I sit in my car, I just started writting….. It’s been almost 2 years since Clayton passed away. Sometimes it…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: healing for widowed, sadness, LGBTQ Widowed, Widowed Lonliness, widowed fears, widowhood and moving forward, hope for widowed, memories, widowed depression, family, widowed grief triggers, friends, widower, widowed community, young widow, milestones

Pizza Toppings

December 24, 2019 by Emma Pearson Leave a Comment

At home I have a big bathroom. Built and decorated by Mike. So big that it has two basins, each with a mirror above it. “His ‘n’ Hers”. Two basins are not common in European bathrooms. Houses don’t usually have the space.  In between the basins and the mirrors, stuck to the wall with blu-tack, is a yellowing, curly-edged, typed piece of…

Filed Under: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: widowed by cancer, friends, widowed by illness

The Ghosts of Christmas Past , Present and Future

December 21, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving was a beast in itself but Christmas can be the kraken in unicorn’s clothing. I love parts of Christmas like the lights, smell of Christmas trees and giving others gifts. It’s the other parts – families gathering, couples under the mistletoe, Hallmark everything that always ends up like a fairytale…Tin was 1000% in with Christmas.

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: Widowed Lonliness, widowed fears, memories, widowed depression, family, unmarried widow, widowhood and traditions, widowed grief triggers, friends, widower, widowed holidays, young widow, milestones, anxiety, sadness, LGBTQ Widowed

Happy Birthday to Me

December 2, 2019 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

Today as I type this it is my fourth Birthday as a widow.  Since Mike died I have never celebrated my birthday and felt authentically happy.  I have always deeply felt his absence and my birthday has been difficult at best.  Really, birthdays have never been a big deal to me – even when Mike was alive.  And, I have to admit, he only lived to…

Filed Under: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed Birthdays Tagged With: birthdays, memories, family, friends

Thanks-Grieving

November 30, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

Last year I could barely walk through the grocery store during the holidays. Thanksgiving has always been my favorite and the thought of even buying ingredients was too much. This year, I told myself that it wasn’t right to stop celebrating. Tin wouldn’t want that at all. So I took a deep breath, swallowed what felt like a rock in my throat and…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: milestones, anxiety, sadness, LGBTQ Widowed, Widowed Lonliness, widowed fears, widowhood and moving forward, widowed depression, memories, unmarried widow, family, widowed grief triggers, widowhood and traditions, widower, friends, young widow, widowed holidays

Mourning Glories

November 26, 2019 by Emma Pearson Leave a Comment

One of my favourite widbuds is Charlotte, who I met last year at the Soaring Spirits Camp Widow event in Toronto 2018. She is beautiful and strong and capable and clever and funny. And she’s grieving. And despite her grieving, she attended my daughter’s funeral, “just because she happened to be in Europe at the time”. We are both in a…

Filed Under: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Community, Multiple Losses Tagged With: widowed friendships, cleaning the closets, Child Loss, friends, multiple losses

Not What you Think~

November 20, 2019 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

I wish I could post the meme here that had me snorting water through my nose I laughed so hard. Alas! I keep getting an error note, so I’ll have to describe it and you envision it for yourself, okay? The meme was 3 shrouded in black figures, riding one of the old timey merry go rounds. The kind made of metal, and you’d hang on desperately as…

Filed Under: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Community, Military Widowed, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Travel, widowed by cancer, military widowed, friends, widowed community, camp widow

What Now?…

November 6, 2019 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

This blog is a question for the Universe, I suppose. Because I don’t believe that there is a human alive, who has gone through this widowed life, who would have a ready answer for me. I’ve stood in the middle of nowhere and cast my eyes up into azure blue skies… I’ve stood outside on the darkest of dark nights with no light pollution around and…

Filed Under: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Emotions, Military Widowed, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: anxiety, Travel, Widowed Lonliness, widowed by cancer, military widowed, Long Term Illness, family, friends

Mending the Quilt

October 27, 2019 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Sometimes I am surprised by moments that heal my in ways I never imagined on this journey of loss. I met Mike because I lost Drew. And I met his daughter Shelby because of that too. And because they lost a wife and mother. And here we are, this new little family sort of scrapped together from the pieces of past lives. There are more pieces too……

Filed Under: Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays Tagged With: hope for widowed, healing for widowed, widowhood and moving forward, memories, widowed parenting, family, friends, widowed holidays

Syncopated Grief

October 15, 2019 by Emma Pearson Leave a Comment

Today is one of those exquisitely beautiful, bright autumn days. With temperatures that would feel “just right” on a mid-summer’s day, but with the added benefit of a gentle breeze to doubly kiss my bare skin as I sit now, in the garden, writing this piece. I have been out on a “long run”. The kind of “long run” I do in the run-up to…

Filed Under: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Child Loss, friends, multiple losses, widowed questioning, pain, friendship, questions

The Wings of the Widowed

September 28, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

I can easily say that I do not reach out to Tin’s mother and family as much as I should. I want to speak with them but it’s hard for me and I feel like I am the immediate reminder, that I trigger all of the grief for them. These widowed weights on my shoulders press down hard at times. It’s a double-edged burden. I want to speak with them but…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: widowed grief triggers, friends, widower, young widow, milestones, healing for widowed, anxiety, sadness, widowed fears, LGBTQ Widowed, hope for widowed, Widowed Lonliness, widowed depression, widowhood and moving forward, unmarried widow, family

Some Thing Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and I’m Blue

August 10, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

Last weekend I was at a close friends wedding. I loved the people, the venue and the time away from my regular hectic schedule. On a beautiful hill at a colonial inn in rural New Hampshire, we all gathered under three towering maple trees to watch two friends join together.  I was in the wedding party. We had rehearsed the walk through the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: widowhood and traditions, widowed grief triggers, widowed anger, widower, envy and widowhood, young widow, friends, milestones, anxiety, sadness, LGBTQ Widowed, Widowed Lonliness, widowed fears, memories, widowed depression, family, unmarried widow

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