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Sudden Loss

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: grief triggers, snow, anxiety, Sudden Loss, heart attack

To My Beloved Husband

October 10, 2018 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

To my beloved husband, Chuck D, as we approach the 6th anniversary of your memorial service, which we held 6 months out from your death… I know I did everything as perfectly as I could in those few short weeks between finding the cancer, our hospice time, and your death. I know this more than I know anything else in my life. And yet… Doubt…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: widowed by illness, Sudden Loss, wondering, alison miller, widowed questioning, expressions of grief

When You Least Expect It

October 3, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

So much of our lives are built upon expectations.  We plan our higher education based on the expectation that we can have a career doing what we love.  We raise children on the expectation that they will succeed even beyond what we ourselves as parents have achieved.  We marry, with the expectation that our partner will be there by our side…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Mourning, Expectations, Las Vegas, Shooting, Concert, Present, Tragedy, widower, Mike Welker, life, Sudden Loss

Love On

March 26, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I had some bad news this past week that has really been on my mind and in my heart for days now. Something that brought back a lot of memories, and a lot of important lessons, for me. It may be an odd thing to say, but at times there are things that I actually miss about those first few years after Drew’s death. As painful and horrible as that…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: grief, Sudden Loss, widowed lessons, learning, reminders, death lessons, sarah treanor

Over It

October 2, 2015 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

After a long day at work yesterday, teaching Theatre and Comedy courses at the University I work at and have worked at for 15 years, I came home to find out about the awful, horrific shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua College. I had sat down and put my TV on in order to feel relaxed after a tiring day, and instead, I found myself feeling once again…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Without Children, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widow, kelley lynn, Sudden Loss, scared, no children, school shootings, oregon, gun violence

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: widowed without children, around the corner, therapy, widow, hope, kelley lynn, grief, Sudden Loss, pain, darkness, suddenly widowed, heart attack

What About Don?

June 5, 2015 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

It is now 3 years and almost 11 months (next week)since my beautiful husband left for work and never came home. In that time, I have (and still do) been to grief counseling weekly, tried many different widowed support groups, become a member of several online and in-person groups for widowed people, found support through Soaring Spirits and have…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Without Children, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: Sudden Loss, suddenly widowed, heart attack, Father's Day, childhood trauma, fatherless, young widow, widowed without children, widow, kelley lynn

The Knowing

May 29, 2015 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

When you lose your beautiful husband to sudden and shocking death at age 39, just four years into your happy and flourishing marriage, one of the biggest things you are left with is something that I call “the knowing.” What is the knowing? It is having the knowledge about a whole host of things regarding life and death, that your previous self had…

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Suddenly, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: widow, kelley lynn, Sudden Loss, the knowing, shock, heart attack, sudden death cancer, newly widowed

Spoons

May 5, 2014 by Cassie Deitz Leave a Comment

Why do I keep expecting to be someone who hasn’t been through what I have? Why do I have these ridiculous expectations? Why do I feel less than because I’m so changed?   Maybe it’s because I don’t want to be disabled by this tragedy, but I am anyway.    I try not to use it as an excuse for my failures, but sometimes I forget that I am not as I…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Without Children, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed fears, widowed depression, widow, Sudden Loss, cassie deitz, widowed with no children, healing through art

Clean or Dirty

March 3, 2014 by Cassie Deitz Leave a Comment

Something I’ve begun to distinguish since Dave died is clean pain versus dirty pain. I can’t remember the original source of this idea, though I’ve read about the concept several different times. Clean pain is the pain we feel when we lose someone or something we love dearly. It’s the pain we naturally feel when we’re ripped from…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed, grief, Sudden Loss, life after loss, Cassie Dietz, pain in grief

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: unmarried widow, widowed, sarah treanor, Sudden Loss, widows voice, afterlife, love and loss, self portrait, healing through art, grief in pictures, life after death

To Be Changed

February 2, 2014 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Last night just before going to bed, for some reason I felt called to go back through some really old journal entries from the years leading up to when I met Drew. I don’t always pay attention to those little cues, but last night for whatever reason I did.   I smiled to read some of the entries about our first days together… about how safe and…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: Meaning, Transformation, unmarried widow, widow, sarah treanor, Sudden Loss, Change, Looking Back

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