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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: widowed, widowed lessons, love never dies, love and loss, widowed growth

This Terrible Club

August 31, 2017 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

Do you want to know the best thing that happened to me since my husband died?    Meeting other widows.   When I realized I was a widow…the day he died…it floored me. It felt unreal. Surreal.   It occurred to me, sitting at our dining room table, with that female police officer asking me about other kin, the firefighters in the bedroom with…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing Tagged With: stephanie vendrell, widowed growth

Hugging Through the Fear

May 28, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I am honestly not even certain what this has to do with being widowed, but it sure as hell has to do with death and loss and trauma and fear. Often times, I begin writing not knowing what will come and find that what needed to be cleansed comes to the surface on its own. I suppose, as someone who is learning to mother the child of a widowed person,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses Tagged With: facing fears, learning to parent, parent loss, widow, sarah treanor, parenting, widowed growth

Nero’s Cry

May 11, 2015 by Tricia Bratton Leave a Comment

This week, on an animal sanctuary in Southern Spain, I am surrounded by rock, and the nude, bare earth echoes the inner emptiness I feel. In England, all that green and growing doesn’t match my insides. Here, this rock, this heat, this rugged blend of pine and desert wildflower, poking up from parched earth, speaks to my spirit. Here, amongst this…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed growth, tricia bratton, widowed adventures, widowed suddenly, widow, widowed loneliness

In the Ring with Grief

March 13, 2015 by Michele Neff Hernandez Leave a Comment

I’m filling in for Kelley Lynn today, she will be back next week! This post was written about four years after Phil died. It’s amazing how the written words mean the same thing literally, but six years later their figurative meaning has shifted yet again.Over the past four years grief and I have reluctantly become friends. Grief is not the kind of…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed perspective, michele neff hernandez, widowed suddenly, widow, widowed growth

Living with “After” Shock

January 24, 2015 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Something I feel many people don’t understand about losing your partner is that there are many, many subsequent losses. It’s something all of you understand, or will come to. Like aftershock from an earthquake, they continue to shake our foundation for YEARS after the initial tragedy. It can be the smallest things, like the first time you…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed perspective, unmarried widow, widowed sadness, widow, sarah treanor, widowed moving forward, widowed growth

Will the Stars and Moon Answer Me?

December 31, 2014 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

Even while I’m engaged in various activities, my mind’s eye, my heart’s eye, is searching for something that will ring a bell of recognition within me.  Something that will make my heart say oh, that’s what I’ve known all along and didn’t remember I knew! That something that will ease some of the devastating ache of my soul and heart and body.

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: widowed by illness, widowed searching, widowed growth, widowed holidays, widow, alison miller

Another Year Over

December 30, 2014 by Kerryl Murray McGlennon Leave a Comment

Another number away from the “2012” in which Ian died. One thing I read late last year was people doing a ‘word’ for the year, not New Years Resolutions, which seemed a far more sensible way to go than dragging out the perennial resolution that never gets stuck to. The word that stuck out to me at the beginning of the year was Faith. Not religious…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: widowed accomplishments, widowed growth, aussie widow, kerryl McGlennon, young widow, widowed parenting, widow, widowed by illness

Neighbors of the Heart

December 28, 2014 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s been a few weeks since I shared about going on my first date with someone since my fiancé died. I have been through every wave of emotion imaginable since then. I have cried buckets of tears for how much this experience has made me miss my fiancé. For how much all of this is bringing up old familiar memories and joys I shared with him…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love Tagged With: widow, sarah treanor, widowed growth, widowed people dating, unmarried widow, young widow, widowed new love

A Leaf Adrift

December 25, 2014 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

Somehow it ended up that Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day all fell on Thursdays this year, my day to write. It is the season so I know it doesn’t really matter what day we write or what, if any, religion we practice – holiday time in general is hard for us widowed folk, but it certainly rings very clearly that I’m posting on days that…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widow, widowed memories, stephanie vendrell, widowed growth, widowed holidays, widowed suddenly

A Heart’s Reflections

December 18, 2014 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

I went to a Christmas party the other night. A year ago, there is no way I could, or would have been able to socialize like that. And I was going alone, as my guy works evenings. So I know I have made vast strides this past year. This time around I found myself really looking forward to it. I felt happy to have been invited; it felt nice that…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widow, stephanie vendrell, widowed growth, widowed perspective, widowed holidays, widowed suddenly

Third Thanksgiving Lessons

November 30, 2014 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving was easier this year. I think. It was certainly less terrifying than the first year. I still remember that first year, when we changed the tradition from being at my in-laws’ house to Drew’s aunt & uncle’s house near Houston. His aunt did assigned seats… and I was sat next to the ONLY empty chair in the whole room. Which also…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays Tagged With: sarah treanor, widowed lessons, widowed growth, unmarried widow, young widow, widowed holidays, widow

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