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Surviving This

November 21, 2019 by Mari Posa Leave a Comment

Dear Readers,  In today’s blog, I want to talk about something very sensitive, and that is having suicidal thoughts after the loss of a loved one. First and foremost, I want to say that I want to be very respectful of this post, to those we have lost to suicide. I also want to share my experience and what I went through when I lost my husband.

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions Tagged With: pain, hiding our pain, darkness in grief

My Grief as a Widow

November 14, 2019 by Mari Posa Leave a Comment

I struggle to sleep at night.  I have flashbacks of the horrific images of how my husband’s body was left.  I miss the love of my life every day.  It’s hard for me to trust.  It’s painful to see his things all over the house, but I cannot bear to take them down.  I miss feeling loved, protected and cared for.  I miss feeling like I was…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed missing him, pain, widow grief

Maudlin

November 5, 2019 by Emma Pearson Leave a Comment

One of the patterns I have noticed in friends’ responses to whatever I happen to post on social media is that, when I post some good news, “happy photos”, or an achievement, I get 3 or 4 times as many “likes”, comments, and whoopy doos, than if I post something hard, messy, painful and tough. There the sorrow just hangs out its forlorn…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses Tagged With: widowed sadness, multiple losses, pain, Child Loss, social media

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: friends, multiple losses, widowed questioning, pain, friendship, questions, Child Loss

Get Along, Grief Shamers

July 18, 2018 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

Along about the second year, definitely going into the third and then the fourth…I just wanted to scream at people. Not in anger, but in shredded grief and pain… Why can’t you just let me be sad? Why does it feel like I must defend myself against you? Why does it then feel like I have to defend my grief even to myself? Why does it feel like I…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: alison miller, support, widowhood and anger, judgement, grief and pain, self-doubt, pain, grief shame

Heart and Soul

July 11, 2018 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

When your heart and soul are just so tired, 5 years in. Not for any particular reason, really. Everything is pretty much the same as it’s always been. Even when life is routine, my spirit is tired. And, yes, life on the road can be routine. Tired from doing and being and all the stuff that comes from living a life that is so achingly and…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: alison miller, grief, finding joy again, balancing, exhaustion, pain, tired, mental exhaustion

The Hammer

May 18, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

This morning, my cousin posted an image on Facebook of a hilarious guitar magazine parody called “Mediocre Guitar.” My husband Don loved music, especially guitars. He owned 7 or 8 of them at all times, and was always hanging out online at guitar websites and message boards, and giving free lessons to his fellow online guitar-enthusiast friends, on…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widowed sadness, remembering, Music, pain, the knowing, Fog

How Are You?

July 17, 2017 by Wendy Saint-Onge Leave a Comment

I have struggled with this question since the moment Ben received his diagnosis.  Those are usually the first words out of someone’s mouth when they see me, and then a look immediately crosses their face and I suspect they are thinking one of two things: “God.  That was a stupid question to ask.  Why did I ask her that?  How the Hell do I…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions Tagged With: wendy saint-onge, Ben The Titan, cry, sorry, thank you, embarrassed, say something, pain

One Month Till One Year

November 5, 2016 by Kaiti Wallace Leave a Comment

One month till one year, it’s difficult to find the words. Disbelief sums it up well. Disbelief that only one year ago we were living out our dreams together, both so insanely happy and in love. Never could I have imagined our happiness was just a mere month from being ripped away. Its eleven months today. On this day last year he was at work and…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed, widow, grief, anniversary, pain, fear, ptsd, young widow, anxiety, memories

“It Isn’t Just Me”

March 6, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s less than a week until Mike and I will be flying down to Tampa for Camp Widow. It’s so surreal to think of all that has happened in a year. Life is no less complicated than it ever has been, in fact more so for me. It’s a good complicated, but that doesn’t make it easy. I was talking with another widow friend the other day about this. Like me,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: living again, widow, helping each other, sarah treanor, letting go, loss, 4 years, grief, love after death, death, keeping connection, pain, friendship, healing, sharing

Unraveling Grief: Things I’ve Learned About Letting Go

January 16, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

The other day I was filling out a workbook that I have done several times in January… called Unraveling the Year Ahead. It’s a wonderful workbook created by author, photographer and teacher Susannah Conway. This little booklet is filled with solid questions to get you to write down your reflections on the past year – release what you want to,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: living again, letting go, widow, 4 years, sarah treanor, love after death, loss, letting love in, grief, living fully after loss, death, keeping connection, pain, love after loss, healing

Around the Corner

June 12, 2015 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

On July 12th, 2011, during another ordinary day in my previous life, I could have never in a zillion years predicted or seen coming that only hours later, my husband would leave for work and never return again. I could NOT have foreseen that he would be sitting at the computer desk in our bedroom one minute, and the next morning,I would be jarred…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Without Children, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: heart attack, widowed without children, around the corner, therapy, widow, hope, kelley lynn, grief, Sudden Loss, pain, darkness, suddenly widowed

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