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Camp Widow San Diego 2022

July 20, 2022 by Kathie Neff 1 Comment

Hand holding camera with lake in the background

Gratitude, Respect, and Wonder Camp Widow is a wrap and the value of storytelling is strong in my being. Images are vivid in my mind. I’m remembering the Well Loved photos of our persons who are honored front-and-center throughout the entire event. I’m thinking about the messages of compassion, help, and hope which met us […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Community Tagged With: hope for widowed, tellyourlovestory, widows moving forward

Be Brave

January 19, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. Bear Grylls Experiencing loss in the time of Covid is complicated. Times like these require some amount of bravery, either conscious or unconscious, to keep going. As does widowhood. Contemplating bravery is a helpful tool in […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: #planningfuneral, Loss in the time of Covid, Responsibilities, grieving process, widowed emotions, widows moving forward

Of Butterflies, Puppies, and the Dan Neff Dog

July 21, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

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The surprising journey of widowhood. Part of the widowed journey, as I experience it, is having to face new things. Some new things contain the kind of surprises you don’t want to receive. For example, if your partner always took the dog to vet, then the first vet visit on your own might surprise you […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Signs from Loved One Tagged With: #PetsAsFamily, biglove, #DogLove, lovestory, memory, grieving process, widowed emotions, widows moving forward

Til Death Do Us Part . . . or not

July 7, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

The irony of pledging our lives to one another on Independence Day revealed itself slowly over the years. A powerful love awakened what felt like super powers. Of course we would live a lifetime together, no matter the bets of some who thought otherwise. Dan enjoyed highlighting the benefits of choosing July 4th to marry: […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: #PromisedLove, hope for widowed, anniversary, lovestory, grieving process, widows moving forward

Both / And

June 30, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Both / And

Both/And thinking [the opposite of either/or thinking] recognizes the folly of assuming that the new will totally supplant the old. Seeing with Both/And eyes recognizes that two opposite realities can be integrated. Adapted from Daniel Burrus at Burrus Research Today marks two months and two weeks since my beloved, Daniel Paul Neff, took his last […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: hope for widowed, widowed grief triggers, biglove, decades together, grieving process, widowed emotions, widows moving forward

Blossom and Fade

March 5, 2015 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

I sit here at Mike’s old desk, a glass of wine by my elbow and the almost full moon shining brightly through the window, and wonder what I would be doing now were he still alive.   I pause for a moment and think of our other writers here and their lives; all of our struggles, changes, decisions and thoughts in the wake of our losses. And all the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: widow, hope for widows, stephanie vendrell, widows moving forward

“It Isn’t Fair”

March 1, 2015 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I recently overheard a widowed woman sharing about her experience and of being still in a very painful place with it all after 4 long years. Granted in widowhood, that isn’t an extremely unusual circumstance. But I do think sometimes we err on the side of being so careful with those grieving that we do not say some more blunt perspectives that…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: widow lessons, widow happiness, widow, sarah treanor, widowed lessons, widows moving forward

Taking a Memo

January 1, 2015 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

A dear high school friend I had dinner with when I was back in my home town for Christmas told me something that resonated quite deeply. She was making the point after we started talking about what my reality has been like for me the past nearly two years after losing Mike, how my perspective has shifted so enormously, and that I find myself at a…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays Tagged With: widowed holidays, widow, stephanie vendrell, widowed perspective, widows moving forward

The Dream & The Death

May 4, 2014 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Today is a very big day. In just a few hours, I will be loading up nine of my large framed photos and delivering them safely to the local hospital for my first solo art exhibition. It is a lifelong dream come true. And mostly, it has been incredible. I told my counselor the other day that it feels like a dream… that it feels like I got dropped…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Without Children, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: young widow, widow, sarah treanor, widowed happiness, widowhood and healing, widowed with no children, healing through art, widows moving forward, widowed art

A Farewell Toast

May 3, 2014 by Taryn Davis Leave a Comment

It’s come. The time for me to step away as a writer for Widow’s Voice and let another share their life with all of you…to heal and learn in new ways and see things from another’s view. This moment was inevitable, as the only permanence in life is impermanence (as we all know too well…hence us being here), yet I want to share a bit of what it…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Without Children, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: young widow, widow, taryn davis, widow blogger, widowed with no children, widow taking steps, widows moving forward

Infusion

December 9, 2013 by Cassie Deitz Leave a Comment

Oh, it’s back. Some of my previous silliness, joy and ease is back. Sleeping and I are friends again, but it’s a tentative relationship. We’re afraid to like each other too much, lest we get too attached. But it’s working for now. And for that I am so grateful I want to throw a party. I’m eating TOO well, and I’m exercising and working more without…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: young widow, widowed suddenly, widow, widowed living boldly, cassie deitz, widows moving forward

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