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Why Speak of it?

March 5, 2025 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Talking over coffee.

Why Speak of Them? Does it matter? As a widow of nearly four years, I wonder how many widowed people just tough-it-out and don’t reach out for help during their early days of widowhood. Or, perhaps they do, but they keep it private. It is possible to have professional grief therapy, counseling, or pastoral care […]

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

Facing Ambush

April 24, 2024 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Person peeking around the door into a dark room

Part of the Work of Grief Sometimes your feelings are right. You need to take a chill pill, slow down, hang out with friends, and cry your heart out. Other times, they need to be corrected. What you need to do then is examine your emotions, separate false from truth, make a plan for refreshing, […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed depression, widowed grief triggers, milestones, healing for widowed, anxiety, sadness, widowed fears

Pause

October 11, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Fall leaf on dry grass.

            There are times when words fail   when life demands pause.       There are times when Life fails   Humans fail   Goodness fails;   leaves us frozen in disbelief   grasping for some yesterday that is not now.       There are times of human failure when […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: sadness, frozen, shock, pause, disbelief

It’s Hard Being Widowed

July 19, 2023 by Kathie Neff 1 Comment

The word WAYS painted on a road with an arrow pointing to the right

Let me count the ways. Inspired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem, How Do I Love Thee? written for her husband Robert Browning-1850.   The depth and breadth and height of my love matches the depth, breadth and height of my grief; my soul finds you missing, again and again. …I am thinking today of my […]

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One Tagged With: hope for widowed, healing for widowed, sadness, widowed missing him

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: hope for widowed, healing for widowed, anxiety, Travel, sadness, newly widowed, widowed community

A Love Letter

February 15, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

a plus and minus sign

After Valentine’s Day Hey love, I made it through another valentines day — so well, in fact, that I forgot it was Wednesday and I’m just writing this! Writing to you is always easier than writing to others, so here we are, my love, conversing online on the day after Valentine’s Day. Through the lens […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Uncategorized Tagged With: milestones, sadness, memories, widowed missing him, widowed holidays

Someone else’s memories *sigh*

February 6, 2020 by Bryan Martin 1 Comment

Just an ordinary widowed day. Get up, brush my teeth, look at the dishes and laundry I didn’t have time to do, *sigh*, take the dog out – Pretty standard these days. Roan and I start our walk grabbing a bag because we pick up after ourselves. Well actually I clean up after us. Just me. No one to help. *sigh*.  We walk the same way every morning…

Filed Under: Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One Tagged With: widowed depression, unmarried widow, widowed grief triggers, widower, young widow, widowed signs from our loved ones, sadness, memories

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 fears, LGBTQ Widowed, hope for widowed, Widowed Lonliness, widowed depression, widowhood and moving forward, unmarried widow, memories, widowed grief triggers, widowed guilt, widower, young widow, milestones, healing for widowed, anxiety, sadness

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: hope for widowed, memories, widowed depression, family, widowed grief triggers, friends, widower, widowed community, young widow, milestones, healing for widowed, sadness, LGBTQ Widowed, Widowed Lonliness, widowed fears, widowhood and moving forward

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: widowed grief triggers, young widow, healing for widowed, anxiety, sadness, widowhood and moving forward, memories, widowed suddenly, hope for widowed

I Thought of You~

January 15, 2020 by Alison Miller 2 Comments

I thought of you last night. One night among all the thousands of nights that have passed since your hand last grasped mine, As we lay next to each other in the dark. I thought of your breath  Your arms braced As you raised yourself above me, The passion in your eyes A mere reflection of mine. Our bodies sweaty and slick As we moved this way and…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions, Military Widowed, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: sadness, Widowed Lonliness, widowed by cancer, military widowed, memories, Long Term Illness

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