June 6, 2023 by Geisinger Silver Circle
Geisinger Health System serves over half a million patients across multiple states in the Northeastern United States. The Circle is a magazine where you’ll get insights and events for members of Geisinger Silver Circle. They open this month’s edition by talking about grief and they gave the National Widowers’ Organization and… Read More
March 22, 2023 by The National Widowers’ Organization
The National Widowers’ Organization and Wings for Widows are collaborating to bring expanded resources to grieving men.
Both organizations, recognizing there are scant resources available to men seeking support, have joined to help grieving men.
The National Widowers’ Organization, formed in 2009, identified men… Read More
April 11, 2022 by Jan Tuckwood
What I learned from dating widowers
The first widower I dated introduced me to his wife. She was six feet under.
“Barbara, this is Jan,” he said, as we stood at her tombstone. “She’s come to take care of me now.”
I gulped. I had… Read More
October 13, 2020 by Jordon Ferber
“Death is an inevitable part of life, and yet it can be difficult and uncomfortable to talk about the process of grief amongst one’s peers. In this podcast comedian and bereaved sibling Jordon Ferber helps shine some light into the darkest parts of our own existence and encourage a more… Read More
October 22, 2019 by Herb Knoll
“Widowers Journey Podcast” is part of a support network for men who have been widowed or lost a spouse or life partner. Author Herb Knoll discovered upon losing his wife to cancer, that there were really no support services available to grieving men. He… Read More
July 30, 2019 by July 11, 2019 by Lisa Marshall, Reviewed by Neha Pathak, MD; WebMD News Special Report
“There has been this idea in the past that grief proceeds in the same somewhat lockstep sequence for everyone,” says David Feldman, PhD, a professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University in California. “We now know it just doesn’t work that way. People often attack themselves for doing grief… Read More
February 19, 2019 by Darwyn M. Dave, Dealing With My Grief
Sam Feldman and Ken Levy are members of the National Widowers’ Organization. It’s an organization created by Sam to help men deal with their grief by talking about it with other men.
We have a candid discussion about losing a spouse, finding companionship after loss and the act of moving… Read More
April 24, 2012 by Patrick Phillips
Confounded by grief, people are literally at a loss for everything. The return from despair can be long, and the return always takes different paths. Sandy Broyard, Sam Feldman and George Cohn reflect on grief, bereavement and recovery and what the process may mean for others.
April 20, 2012 by Peter Brannen, MV Gazette
On Wednesday Sam Feldman pulled up a picture of a bathing beauty on his iPad. It was his wife, Gretchen, when she was only 20, the year he met her.
Sam Feldman has a support system for widowers struggling with loss. “So, that’s why I was sad and lonely,” he… Read More
March 10, 2012 by Hope Through Knowledge in Health
Men grieve differently.