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My friend Faye

March 12, 2023 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

So yesterday I found out that a woman who was/is part of the Soaring Spirits widowed community, has died. Her name is Faye Beck Fleming, and I found out when another friend in the widowed community, Alison, private messaged me and told me. At the time, I was in my car driving home from the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: camp widow, widowed friendships, secondary losses, Faye Beck Fleming, widowed friends, tribe

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: friends, multiple losses, widowed friendships, cleaning the closets, Child Loss

Badass Widows Reunited

August 9, 2018 by Olivia Arnold Leave a Comment

This past weekend my friend from British Columbia flew to Ontario to come to visit me. I haven’t seen her in a year since we last did a road trip together. I’ve written about her before on my own personal blog about her being The Friend I Never Wanted. She is an amazing and inspiring person. She’s a young widow too and an incredible support.

Filed Under: Widowed Community Tagged With: widowed community, olivia arnold, widowed friendships

A Waste of Worry

August 21, 2017 by Wendy Saint-Onge Leave a Comment

Last week I was anxious and annoyed (raging, actually) over the seemingly endless list of things I thought I could not do without Ben.  At the time, the top of my list of stressors was the fact that I was headed off to Camp Widow where I would be attending a Saturday night Masquerade Ball, and I realized there was no one to zip up my dress.  It…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community Tagged With: wendy saint-onge, Ben The Titan, zippers, rage, brave, camp widow, worry, widowed friendships, widowed courage

Matters of Interpretation

March 26, 2015 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy week, and the highlight was a visit with my friend Margaret who flew in for a nice long weekend from her home in the Bay area. Her husband Dave, who was healthy and fit, died of a sudden, massive stroke at age 50 three months after Mike died, and she and I were put together by mutual friends and family who saw us both falling apart…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Community, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed perspective, widowed new love, widowed suddenly, widowed moving forward, widowed friendships, stephanie vendrell

“Kevin”

November 10, 2011 by Amanda Wright Leave a Comment

Kevin was a fictional character on the award-winning Australian television series “Sea Change”.  Kevin ran the local caravan park and on the surface, he appeared to be a fairly one-dimensional character – a gullible, but honest single-father doing the best he could on minimum wage and abilities. ….. but doing it with an air of a man who…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Community Tagged With: amanda wright, young widow, widow, widowed friendships, aussie widow

Cherish your friends

June 25, 2011 by Taryn Davis Leave a Comment

I wanted to take some time to just talk about my friends. These past few months have been some of the most changing and challenging months since Michael was first killed. The difference though, is I now have an unwavering support system.Michael always urged me to go out and make good girlfriends, but with my best friend being him, I never clicked…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community, Military Widowed, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: taryn davis, young widow, healing for widowed, military widowed, widowed suddenly, widow, widowed friendships

There is a Huge Difference …..

June 15, 2011 by Janine Eggers Leave a Comment

…. between a battle and a war. Huge. But unfortunately, when you’re in a war …. there are many, many battles to fight. I am not sure what your beliefs are ….. I don’t think our differing beliefs will matter as I write this.  At least I hope they won’t.  I write to speak out …. to share my guts with you.  All of you.  And we all “get IT”…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community, Widowed Suddenly, Multiple Losses Tagged With: young widow, healing for widowed, widowed parenting, widowed suddenly, widow, widowed friendships, widowed perspective, janine eggers, widowhood facing another death, hope for widowed

Home is

June 5, 2011 by Michele Neff Hernandez Leave a Comment

Home is where you hang your heart, not only your hat. When Phil died, the four walls of my home became both a refuge and a prison. I hated going out; I hated staying in.  The outside world was too bright. I felt blinded by other people’s lightness, innocent happiness, and especially by their apparent disregard for the fact that the world had…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed suddenly, widow, expressions of grief, widowed friendships, michele neff hernandez, hope for widowed, young widow

kinship

May 6, 2011 by Jackie Hannam-Chandler Leave a Comment

Nine months after Jeff died, my beloved grandfather joined him in the great fishing grounds in the sky. My grandmother was, understandably bereft. She asked me, “Does it ever begin to feel any better?” In that moment, I was struck by one thing. We were now not only linked by blood and family, but by the kinship of grieving our spouse.Marriage…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community, Widowed Suddenly, Multiple Losses Tagged With: widowed perspective, jackie chandler, widowhood facing another death, hope for widowed, young widow, widowed suddenly, widow, widowed friendships

Suffering

April 30, 2011 by Taryn Davis Leave a Comment

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.” -Franz Kafka I’m at one of our bi-monthly AWP events. Our first night is one of the most interesting. For many of the widows, it is there…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Community, Military Widowed, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: young widow, military widowed, widowed suddenly, widow, widowed friendships, taryn davis

How Did You Two Meet?

April 16, 2011 by Michele Neff Hernandez Leave a Comment

Recently I spent eight days with one of my favorite people in the world. You all know her as our Tuesday blogger, I call her tacalla. You’ve heard one or the other of us use that term here on the blog (tacalla is the Spanish word for two things that share the same name), as a way of explaining our shared Michel/lleness. Just imagine for a minute…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: michele neff hernandez, hope for widowed, young widow, healing for widowed, widowed suddenly, widow, widowed finding happiness again, widowed friendships, widowed perspective

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