Welcome to the Soaring Spirits Channel! My name is Michele, and I am the Executive Director of Soaring Spirits, a non-profit that connects widowed people worldwide. This channel is my way of answering questions about our Camp Widow program, as well as sharing the other amazing work we do in all 50 states, and 153 countries around the world. Widowed people rock, and I love sharing with you the amazing resilience I witness every day. Thanks for watching!
Pleas help I have morning sickness every morning I have to vomit I can't accept that my husband is gone..he is gone for over 1year and this symtoms i have for 4 months
Bittersweet. I attended Toronto and had an amazing experience. I understand the reasons, however, since widowed people are indeed everywhere and might not have access to the program. For me, one-day wouldn't have been enough. Having been in isolation in my grief for some time, travelling and being around others was challenging, so the time allotted gave me the chance to acclimate to the event; and, in stepping into it, I grew from it and now feel more confident moving forward.
Oh, I can still remember Krystal arriving at the Toronto Camp in 2016. She hesitated at the bottom of the steps and looked like she was going to turn around and leave. So I left the registration table and went to encourage her to come in. I loved seeing her sitting with other young widows at a table at the Saturday night banquet. Talking. Laughing. Sharing. Connecting. Camp Widow is such a beautiful gift for widowed people.
I’m trying my hardest to live a successful adult life and it’s been hard for the last 20 years to go through this alone and some of the comments that Linze states in her TEDTalk have been done to me I’ve been said to me and it’s painful and I don’t know where else to go for help if you know of a men’s group or organization that can help me I would gladly appreciate it I’ve never asked for help from anybody for anything and I want to keep my love for my mother a life but I just don’t know what else to do
Hello my name is Paul Holmes I found your video through Lynn on TED talk and I’m reaching out for help because I lost my mother in 2004 and I’ve been hurting ever since and I’ve been doing this alone and I’ve been medicating before and I have successfully stopped and quit but the pain is still there and I don’t know how to make it stop and I’m starting to break down crying right now so I’m sorry but I’m literally reaching out for help and I know that this campus for widows that I passed away I have lost both parents and I have no siblings
Thank you my dear. I took care of my husband with cancer for a year, he lost his insurance, then we both got COVID. I was hospitalized and came home 4 days later to find him passed away. It has been a year and I still feel like I'm in a state of shock. I tried a new job in a new country 10 months later and it was too soon. I have had many physical problems and long COVID. I came home and I stay in our condo most of the time. No one seems to want to know how you are when you're a widow, especially when you're 65. They forget you and it's painful. Thank you for reminding me it's o.k. to grieve and that I've been through trauma.
Nate I m so glad I listened to this interview. I have been binging you and jeremiah for a week now but did not want to hear this. The reason being is my oldest daughter died 8 years ago and I avoid all death. I ve just started getting therapy. I did not think I needed it. One day I realized I had been in bed since she died. I have to tell you that I live in the south. That means bible belt. It has always been hard for me to believe Jesus did not want certain people in heaven. In my life God always has a reason why certain people have come into my life, so I be been asking him to reveal the reason I have fallen in love you and Jeremiah. Now I know why it's because of your story. Keep telling it. kA
