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Sadness and Joy . . .

March 23, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

. . . side by side: Camp Widow! It is freeing to be in a space where your sadness is welcome—embraced!—and joy sneaks past all the barriers we have created to keep it away. This is Camp Widow. It is beautiful to witness a gaggle of folks huddling in a corner, laughing their heads off, […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community Tagged With: hope for widowed, love and loss, grieving process, widowed emotions

NEARING YEAR’S END

December 21, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Noticing the Passing of Time Frost is something that we take notice of when it arrives to our Southern California neighborhood. Many winters come and go without so much as an icy car windshield at year’s end when many places in our hemisphere are covered in snow. It was a balmy April night when he […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One Tagged With: love and loss, reflecting back, decades together, widowed emotions

Traveling in the Land of Grief – Part Two

September 22, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

  Images speak louder than words. The concentric layers of trees, in the gorgeous photo above, remind me of grief—its stages and the overall journey that begins when death arrives at our door. It speaks to me of spaces of rest along the journey and the familiar fog of being in an unknown land. Little […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: #StagesOfGrief, hope for widowed, love and loss, lovestory, grieving process, newly widwoed

131 Days

August 25, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

To My Dearest Dan, It has been one hundred thirty-one days since you died and it feels so much longer. It feels as if you are watching me from afar and also, somehow, participating daily in my life with your energy. When I call on you I especially feel you near, although you show up […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One Tagged With: love and loss, lovestory, memory, grieving process, widowed emotions

Covid Takes and Gives

July 28, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

History Will Bear Witness History will bear witness to the terrible costs of the Worldwide Pandemic known as Covid-19 in the year 2020. In tallying those costs, nothing can compare to the loss of lives: 627,039 in the USA and 4.16 million worldwide to date. Over four million people–gone. The Covid Pandemic took husbands, wives, […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: #covid, #CovidTakesAndGives, #CovidGift, love and loss, tellyourlifestory, grieving process, newly widwoed

Unbalanced or Balanced

December 5, 2019 by Mari Posa Leave a Comment

Lately, I’ve been getting this urge to try to find balance in my life. What is the balance? Some people would say, it is to have a job, a family, stability, and security. All those things sound great, but life throws at us unexpected unimaginable things, and somehow someway we can still manage them. So by managing the unimaginable, does that mean…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: love and loss, widowed growth, widowed, widowed lessons, love never dies

In Love With…A Dead Man

July 25, 2018 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

He strides through my mind on a daily basis. My heart yearns for the Love I felt so strongly with him. My soul remembers back to the years we shared. My body yearns for his hands upon it. It’s been 5 years and 3 months since he left my world. I’m in love with a dead man. I can almost hear the shrieks of dismay and shock and see people draw back…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed missing him, widowed dating, alison miller, love and loss, judgement

Losing a Friend

May 11, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

So the book I have been writing about my husband’s death, and life in the aftermath, is finished. It is now in editing, and should be ready for publication for July 13th. One of the sections in the book is called “Words About Don”, where I asked a handful of his close friends and family to write up a few words/couple of paragraphs or so, about a…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: crying, sadness, widowed sadness, friends, loss, writing, love and loss, friendship

Popped

March 8, 2014 by Taryn Davis Leave a Comment

  There are many things I’m certain of in and of myself:I am strong.I am resilient.I am confident.I am driven.I am passionate.I am a rebel.I am a lover.I am a giver.I am a life embracer.But I must be honest.Last year, I found myself challenged.Now, I must preface that with that fact that I live for challenges. I thrive off of them.And yet, when I…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed, grief, life after loss, love and loss, overcoming fear, taryn davis

A Beginning in the End

March 1, 2014 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

A lot of us talk about various times during this horrible journey where a shift begins to happen. It’s nothing concrete or tangible, it may not even be something we can easily define… all we know is that something has changed in us and the way we view what has happened to us. That is the shift.Since the new year began, I’ve been feeling as…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: healing through art, grief in pictures, life after death, unmarried widow, widowed, sarah treanor, Sudden Loss, widows voice, afterlife, love and loss, self portrait

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