Other widow blogs
Shoes and Glitter (winner of WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog 2020)
Kinga Glowacka (Kay) created the Shoes & Glitter blog. She was killed in a road traffic accident, and Sakima, her partner, continued the blog in her memory.
A Nameless Pain
Writing has been my only solace… which is why this blog has been born. I have found myself writing a lot in the months since my love was taken and I feel a need to organise them here. I have found it comforting to read others words and know I am not alone in all these terrifying feelings. If you’ve just lost someone, you are not alone, and these overwhelming emotions are normal. I promise.
Helena Uta's blog
30 y/o Londoner. I lost my mum, dad, and partner to cancer in my 20s. Currently rebuilding my life and finishing an Econ PhD. Half 🇩🇪, half 🇯🇵
Red Kites and Beaches
I am a young widow, living through the grief of having loved and lost my husband Chris, when I was 45. This blog is a series of ramblings about our love, his illness, my loss, grief, the support of other young widows and learning to live again.
Life is a Rollercoaster (2022 and 2023 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
COVID-19 entered my world. I went from being a 38 year old married, working mother of one to a 39 year old widowed, working mother of one. There is nothing like your entire world being turned upside down in the space of a month to make you reassess who you are. My story of becoming Emma whilst navigating the ups and downs of life.
Nimisha Sharma (2023 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
Nimisha is a blogger/writer with a vision to change the narrative around grief and being a very young widow in today’s world, one word at a time. Her writing offers a candid, honest and thought-provoking perspective of life through the lived experiences of a young widow who is also navigating motherhood for the first time. She writes about how love transforms you, as does loss, but how there is always the brightest rainbow after the wildest of storms.
Rachel E Moss (2022 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
Rachel writes honestly and compassionately about navigating the landscape of grief while raising awareness of gaps in mental health service provision in the UK. Her posts on how to support a recently bereaved person and on the ways grief works have resulted in many comments and emails from readers saying they see their own experiences reflected in Rachel’s writing.
A Widow's Wanderlust (2022 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
At the start of 2018 I had it all. A good job, a gorgeous baby girl called Ava, and my husband, who I knew would love me until the end of time. The road wasn’t always smooth, but it was steady and all laid out ahead of us as we walked hand in hand. On 15th January 2018, everything changed when I came home from work to discover my husband had taken his own life.
This Be Grief
I don’t know. Like everything else, there is no certainty. Everything is fluid. Let’s be honest, these days I don’t know anything. I don’t know how anything is going to go. Reality was already surreal. I am beyond lost. So one day at a time…
The Next Right Things (2023 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
I never had lofty aspirations for myself. I wanted a job I didn’t hate where I felt I made a difference, I wanted to travel, I wanted to fall in love and have a family of my own. And then he was diagnosed with cancer and died four months later. So now I work at a job I’m still blessed not to hate to make sure we can eat, and when we travel the world I’m the solo parent on the plane trying to shepherd three kids like herding cats. And I have our family, but there’s a big hole left behind.
Making Lemonade (2022 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
Meet the Robinsons, Sam, Lauren and Molly (that's us). But life has changed a lot. Cancer has sadly torn our family apart and Molly and I lost our beloved Lauren (my Wife and Molly's Mum) in August 2020 after she bravely took on breast cancer for over 3 years.
Wife After Death
I’m a 37-year-old writer and mother currently adrift somewhere in the sea of widowhood. I lost my husband and soul-mate on a freezing February evening in 2012.
Was This in the Plan?
I'm Steph, once I was a marketing professional, now I am a carer, a widowed parent and a freelance writer. How did all that happen? How do any of us know what will happen in our lives?
Widow All At Sea (2022 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
Write it down. Write it down. Write it down. Amongst the usual things you say to someone in the depths of grief, that’s what I heard over and over in the wake of my beloved husband’s sudden death. Those who have known me all my life know that it’s how I work things out when my mind isn’t big enough to hold them. And nothing is bigger or more unwieldy than grief. So here I am.
Widow From the Island (2022 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
I have never thought that I would write a blog, I felt I had nothing interesting to write about until my husband Julien died from leukemia (AML) in November 2020. The blog will hopefully help me and others going through this journey.
Young, Widowed and Dating
Whether you’ve been widowed six months or six years, the grief and pain of losing a spouse or partner never goes away. Join me as I share my own story and those of others from the young and widowed community.
Life as a Widower
My name is Ben. On 10 November 2012 my life changed forever. Just after 8.00p.m. I left my friends’ house a happily married thirty-three-year-old father. By 9.17p.m. I was sitting in an ambulance on their street, a widower in shock.
Planet Grief
My husband got off his sun lounger, adjusted his glasses and headed into the sea for a swim. Moments later, I heard him call for help, and watched helplessly from the beach as he was pulled out to sea by a rip tide. He drowned. At the age of 46, I crash-landed on Planet Grief, a place where nothing, not even my own reflection in the mirror, felt familiar.
Widows Don't Wear Black
We walk among you unnoticed until normal little everyday things force us to fall apart in public and reveal ourselves. This is my place to vent my frustrations, wallow when I need to and discover a new future because the unthinkable did happen and my husband died suddenly at 38 leaving me and our two little babies under the age of two behind.
No Rain No Rainbows
It was midday during the May Day Bank Holiday, 2017. I was 37 years of age. I left my house as a married man and father to a beautiful 8-month-old baby daughter, Margot. Within a few hours, I was sat next to a hospital bed, a single parent widower. My wife, Katherine was taken suddenly within the blink of an eye, at just 35 years of age.
Just Carry On Breathing (winner of WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog 2016)
I came home late from work to discover that Louise had taken her own life at the tragically young age of just 40. This blog is part of my attempt to come to terms with the loss of my beautiful and much loved wife and an effort to reach out to others affected by the loss of their partner in such devastating circumstances.
On Losing Omar
On 5th November 2016 my world collapsed. I lost my best friend, my soulmate, my daughter’s father, my Omar. Omar died from a rare, aggressive T-Cell (-ALK) Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Omar was only 34 years old. We’d been married for just 4 years.
Griefcast: Funny People Talking About Death
Griefcast is a podcast that examines the human experience of grief and death - but with comedians, so it’s cheerier than it sounds.
Kinga Glowacka (Kay) created the Shoes & Glitter blog. She was killed in a road traffic accident, and Sakima, her partner, continued the blog in her memory.
A Nameless Pain
Writing has been my only solace… which is why this blog has been born. I have found myself writing a lot in the months since my love was taken and I feel a need to organise them here. I have found it comforting to read others words and know I am not alone in all these terrifying feelings. If you’ve just lost someone, you are not alone, and these overwhelming emotions are normal. I promise.
Helena Uta's blog
30 y/o Londoner. I lost my mum, dad, and partner to cancer in my 20s. Currently rebuilding my life and finishing an Econ PhD. Half 🇩🇪, half 🇯🇵
Red Kites and Beaches
I am a young widow, living through the grief of having loved and lost my husband Chris, when I was 45. This blog is a series of ramblings about our love, his illness, my loss, grief, the support of other young widows and learning to live again.
Life is a Rollercoaster (2022 and 2023 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
COVID-19 entered my world. I went from being a 38 year old married, working mother of one to a 39 year old widowed, working mother of one. There is nothing like your entire world being turned upside down in the space of a month to make you reassess who you are. My story of becoming Emma whilst navigating the ups and downs of life.
Nimisha Sharma (2023 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
Nimisha is a blogger/writer with a vision to change the narrative around grief and being a very young widow in today’s world, one word at a time. Her writing offers a candid, honest and thought-provoking perspective of life through the lived experiences of a young widow who is also navigating motherhood for the first time. She writes about how love transforms you, as does loss, but how there is always the brightest rainbow after the wildest of storms.
Rachel E Moss (2022 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
Rachel writes honestly and compassionately about navigating the landscape of grief while raising awareness of gaps in mental health service provision in the UK. Her posts on how to support a recently bereaved person and on the ways grief works have resulted in many comments and emails from readers saying they see their own experiences reflected in Rachel’s writing.
A Widow's Wanderlust (2022 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
At the start of 2018 I had it all. A good job, a gorgeous baby girl called Ava, and my husband, who I knew would love me until the end of time. The road wasn’t always smooth, but it was steady and all laid out ahead of us as we walked hand in hand. On 15th January 2018, everything changed when I came home from work to discover my husband had taken his own life.
This Be Grief
I don’t know. Like everything else, there is no certainty. Everything is fluid. Let’s be honest, these days I don’t know anything. I don’t know how anything is going to go. Reality was already surreal. I am beyond lost. So one day at a time…
The Next Right Things (2023 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
I never had lofty aspirations for myself. I wanted a job I didn’t hate where I felt I made a difference, I wanted to travel, I wanted to fall in love and have a family of my own. And then he was diagnosed with cancer and died four months later. So now I work at a job I’m still blessed not to hate to make sure we can eat, and when we travel the world I’m the solo parent on the plane trying to shepherd three kids like herding cats. And I have our family, but there’s a big hole left behind.
Making Lemonade (2022 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
Meet the Robinsons, Sam, Lauren and Molly (that's us). But life has changed a lot. Cancer has sadly torn our family apart and Molly and I lost our beloved Lauren (my Wife and Molly's Mum) in August 2020 after she bravely took on breast cancer for over 3 years.
Wife After Death
I’m a 37-year-old writer and mother currently adrift somewhere in the sea of widowhood. I lost my husband and soul-mate on a freezing February evening in 2012.
Was This in the Plan?
I'm Steph, once I was a marketing professional, now I am a carer, a widowed parent and a freelance writer. How did all that happen? How do any of us know what will happen in our lives?
Widow All At Sea (2022 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
Write it down. Write it down. Write it down. Amongst the usual things you say to someone in the depths of grief, that’s what I heard over and over in the wake of my beloved husband’s sudden death. Those who have known me all my life know that it’s how I work things out when my mind isn’t big enough to hold them. And nothing is bigger or more unwieldy than grief. So here I am.
Widow From the Island (2022 nominee for WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog)
I have never thought that I would write a blog, I felt I had nothing interesting to write about until my husband Julien died from leukemia (AML) in November 2020. The blog will hopefully help me and others going through this journey.
Young, Widowed and Dating
Whether you’ve been widowed six months or six years, the grief and pain of losing a spouse or partner never goes away. Join me as I share my own story and those of others from the young and widowed community.
Life as a Widower
My name is Ben. On 10 November 2012 my life changed forever. Just after 8.00p.m. I left my friends’ house a happily married thirty-three-year-old father. By 9.17p.m. I was sitting in an ambulance on their street, a widower in shock.
Planet Grief
My husband got off his sun lounger, adjusted his glasses and headed into the sea for a swim. Moments later, I heard him call for help, and watched helplessly from the beach as he was pulled out to sea by a rip tide. He drowned. At the age of 46, I crash-landed on Planet Grief, a place where nothing, not even my own reflection in the mirror, felt familiar.
Widows Don't Wear Black
We walk among you unnoticed until normal little everyday things force us to fall apart in public and reveal ourselves. This is my place to vent my frustrations, wallow when I need to and discover a new future because the unthinkable did happen and my husband died suddenly at 38 leaving me and our two little babies under the age of two behind.
No Rain No Rainbows
It was midday during the May Day Bank Holiday, 2017. I was 37 years of age. I left my house as a married man and father to a beautiful 8-month-old baby daughter, Margot. Within a few hours, I was sat next to a hospital bed, a single parent widower. My wife, Katherine was taken suddenly within the blink of an eye, at just 35 years of age.
Just Carry On Breathing (winner of WAY's Helen Bailey Award for Best Widowhood Blog 2016)
I came home late from work to discover that Louise had taken her own life at the tragically young age of just 40. This blog is part of my attempt to come to terms with the loss of my beautiful and much loved wife and an effort to reach out to others affected by the loss of their partner in such devastating circumstances.
On Losing Omar
On 5th November 2016 my world collapsed. I lost my best friend, my soulmate, my daughter’s father, my Omar. Omar died from a rare, aggressive T-Cell (-ALK) Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Omar was only 34 years old. We’d been married for just 4 years.
Griefcast: Funny People Talking About Death
Griefcast is a podcast that examines the human experience of grief and death - but with comedians, so it’s cheerier than it sounds.