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Mapping Grief:

January 18, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

A Man Called Otto. We first meet Otto six months after his wife’s death. With no apparent family, and having cut ties with those he was once close with, a grief-stricken Otto is isolated and in constant pain. He rages like a wounded bull as he goes about his daily life in the tiny neighborhood […]

Filed Under: Widowed, Newly Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One Tagged With: hope for widowed, widower, Widowed Lonliness, widowed anger

Widening the Gap

February 9, 2020 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker 1 Comment

This past week, Sarah and I marked our five-year anniversary as two widows, together in a relationship.  Meeting at Camp Widow in 2015, we found ourselves just simply “connected” somehow…so much so that we were actually asked if we were siblings at one point that weekend. But, this isn’t a story of how we met, or even of the five years…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones Tagged With: dating, widower, milestones, widowhood and moving forward, memories, widowed parenting, widowed dad, widowed new love, widowhood and traditions, widowhood and wedding anniversaries, widowed guilt

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

Serenity

February 6, 2020 by Jeff Ziegler 2 Comments

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In the wake of Suzanne dying, I struggled to find true peace. How did others do it, I wondered? Some turn to “god”, religion, etc. Others turn to self-medicating (drugs, alcohol, etc.). Some find it in more unconventional ways. I finally fell into the last category. When Suzanne died, my whole world shattered. The girls suffered. Her parents…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: widower, widowed dad, widower with children, widowed finding happiness again, solitude, serenity

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

Hummingbirds

January 30, 2020 by Jeff Ziegler Leave a Comment

Hummingbirds

In most other languages, the onomatopoeia that we use to describe these birds does not exist. We call them hummingbirds because, like flip flops and ping pong, it describes the noise made rather than the name of the thing itself. The word most other languages use instead is “Colibri”. This is significant for two reasons. One, I find the word more…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Signs from Loved One Tagged With: widower, widowed signs from our loved ones, widowed dad, widower with children

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

What’s hard for Two Widowed People in Love: Two Second Fiddles

January 19, 2020 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

A while ago, Mike and I wrote this post together about some of the things that are harder about being two widowed people in a new relationship. In that post, we talked about how we aren’t ever able to really pull the widow card on one another, because essentially – it’s canceled out. We’ve both been through an equally hard pain.  We have…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love Tagged With: widower, healing for widowed, widowhood and moving forward, widowed new love, remarried widow

Divine Dimes

January 18, 2020 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

I have been more open-minded and openhearted to try and see signs from Tin. Some say that it is just circumstance but it helps me. It is really interesting how we have preset thoughts about certain things and “superstitions”. For my whole life I always heard that if you find a penny than it is a penny from Heaven -A small shiny token to tell…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Signs from Loved One, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: widower, young widow, widowed signs from our loved ones, healing for widowed, LGBTQ Widowed, memories, hope for widowed, unmarried widow

Taking Things for Granted Replay

January 16, 2020 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

With Mari’s departure on Thursdays, we’ll be featuring repeats from Mike’s posts over the years.  Enjoy this piece, originally written in 2016.   You don’t realize how important the little things are until you don’t have them.  It could be something as simple as sitting on the couch, watching TV until you fall asleep with your partner, and…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Birthdays Tagged With: widower, birthdays, widower with children, Silver Linings

Knowing Ahead

January 5, 2020 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

The holiday season is over.  Starting in early November, every year, I begin pondering Megan’s death at an elevated rate, leading up to the anniversary of it.  With Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day all occurring in the weeks just after, it’s two months of absolute stress, that nobody seems to understand, including myself.  My…

Filed Under: Widowed Parenting, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widower, remarried widow, milestones, anxiety, widowhood and moving forward, widowed parenting, widowed dad, widowed new love, widowed death anniversary, widowhood and traditions, widowed depression, widowed anger, widowed grief triggers, widowed holidays

Long lost Pineapple Shorts

January 4, 2020 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

I’m laying in bed and I’m only 4 days away from heading to Hawaii. I post on Facebook about the trip. In the post I ask who am I going to see there?   Within moments of me posting, I hear something slide and fall in the bedroom closet. Roan (my dog) gets off the bed and goes to the closet, looks at me, walks in and out and walks over to me. He…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Signs from Loved One, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: young widow, widowed signs from our loved ones, healing for widowed, Travel, LGBTQ Widowed, memories, hope for widowed, unmarried widow, widower

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