Just a Widow Talk
This international podcast examines the challenges of grief and loss, while also exploring ways to move forward and even thrive. Each episode spotlights different voices of Spouse and Partner Loss with your host, Teresa Taylor-Williams. She is a widow, journalist, Diversity professional and mental health advocate. She is the founder of 2 Become 1 Grief Support, which includes a virtual support group and this podcast. Welcome to this space.
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Author & Speaker Carmen Greenard Varnum of Atlanta, leans on her faith, finds her purpose in grief.
Since losing her husband to COVID in 2021, Carmen Greenard Varnum is working through her pain by inspiring others. Listen as this author, speaker, and businesswoman speaks of clinging to her faith during this grief journey. "To this day, it's a struggle to get up, to smile, to say I'm going to keep going. Everybody has
In this episode, we chat with Madeline H. of GA about losing her husband, Keith, to COVID.
In this episode, Madeline H. of Georgia shares about losing her husband, Keith, to COVID-19. She attributes her strength to her faith. "It's been a hard transition. What helps me is knowing God for myself," she said. "I asked God to keep my mind and my faith."
Eclectic author, producer, gamer and veteran Steve Wollett of PA shares about his wife, Leslie.
Listen as eclectic author, producer, gamer and veteran Steve Wollett of PA shares about his wife, Leslie. She died of COVID in early 2020.
Remarried widow Jeanette Koncikowski of NY: "The other side of the grief coin is joy, and we deserve to have it."
Re-married widow Jeanette Koncikowski of Buffalo, New York is currently authoring a grief handbook that she wishes she had when her husband, Dr. Mark Koncikowski, died in 2014. "You've got to be able to own your story and get OK with who you are, what's happened and what you lost."
Widower James DeWald Sr. of Fruitport, MI., lost his wife, Mary Lou, to cancer in 2020. He shares his grief journey and how support groups have become "an outlet of ministry for others, and that's what my wife was about."
Psychologist Dr. Joshua Black of British Columbia shares about his 10 years of research with grief dreams, his Grief Dreams podcast, and his own personal reflections. "Our minds are trying to help us (process the loss)," he said. "We can think of dreams as a best friend because they tell you things that you may not wan
