Widowed Women's Circle - Secondary Losses - Honouring Our Journeys (online)

This Circle gathering is exclusively for women who have lost a life partner.

Dear sisters,

🤍 Grief has so many layers. 🤍

I never knew that when a partner dies, the loss does not end with them,
it moves outward, touching all parts of our life as we once knew it.

It’s the future we thought we’d live.
The friends who disappear.
The home that we must change, or feels so very different now.
The identity that’s no longer reflected back to us as we knew it.
The shared history only one heart remembers.
No one to share pictures our precious children's snapshots with.

These are the secondary losses, painfully unseen and deeply felt.

✨ This month, we will gather to speak their names.
And ask:
- How do these changes shape me?
- How do I feel about them now?
- How are they understood (are they even seen?) or misunderstood by those around me?
- If some of these were opening up new paths for me, how does that unfold?

🫂You are welcome to come with your stories, your silence, your tears, or your laughter.
You do not need to explain yourself here.
You can share or simply sit in the circle and be held.

This gathering is for widowed women, for women who have lost a partner or previous life partner and wish to listen deeply and understand the path someone who has lost that part may be walking.
We will hold these truths together. And in the holding, may we find a little more room to breathe.

With infinite love,
Rachel