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Modern Widows Club®️The Movement for Widow Care (MWC) is a women’s health nonprofit for compassionate support to widows empowering them to thrive from grief to growth.
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02/03/2026
African American widows are among the most unseen, unheard, and underserved women in our population — and that silence has real consequences.
They are more likely to experience sudden loss, financial instability, health disparities, and systemic barriers after the death of a spouse — yet their grief is often minimized, rushed, or ignored. Too often, Black widows are expected to “be strong” instead of being supported.
Advocacy means changing that narrative.
It means listening without judgment, resourcing without barriers, and creating spaces where African American widows can grieve, heal, and rebuild with dignity. It means recognizing that grief does not exist in a vacuum — it intersects with race, economics, health equity, and generational trauma.
When we uplift African American widows, we uplift families, communities, and future generations. Support is not charity — it is justice. Visibility is not optional — it is necessary.
We see you. We hear you. And we are committed to standing with you.
👉 Learn how you can support, advocate, and be part of change. Visit our website and join the movement.
Whether you are new to Modern Widows Club® or have been with us for years, we are honored to walk alongside you. Our mission has always been to provide compassionate community, practical tools, and supportive resources for widows—at your pace and on your terms.
As we’ve grown together, we’re introducing three membership levels for our virtual clubs, online communities, and local chapters:
Participation in these trusted environments will require an active MWC membership moving forward. This transition allows us to responsibly nurture our community, honor our trained leaders, and ensure each space remains the safe, consistent haven you deserve.
Your membership includes resources tailored to your chosen level, giving you access to the support that best meets your unique needs. This shift helps us sustain trusted environments where connection and resilience flourish, while continuing to deepen the meaningful care and transformative programs at the heart of what MWC provides.
Please note: our Parenting Club and Survivors of Su***de Club will remain complementary and fully accessible as part of our continued commitment to meeting widows where they are.
Thank you for being an essential part of our community. We are truly honored to walk alongside you—now and in the seasons ahead. 💜
# Hopehealgrow
02/02/2026
Healthy Widow, Healthy Woman Podcast "The Science Behind Your Grief to Growth Journey" with Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor, Neuroscientist, Author & Professor, De...
02/02/2026
Healthy Widow, Healthy Woman Podcast "The Science Behind Your Grief to Growth Journey" with Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor, Neuroscientist, Author & Professor, Department of Psychology, Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab at the University of Arizona.
Our founder Modern Widows Club® Carolyn Moor sits down with renowned neuroscientist Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor, author of The Grieving Brain and The Grieving Body, for a groundbreaking conversation that will validate everything you've been experiencing.
💡 What You'll Discover:
The Science Behind Your Experience:
Why your brain believes your person still exists while knowing they've died
The real reason you feel like you're "losing your mind" (spoiler: you're not!)
How grief creates actual physiological changes in your body
💜 Why This Matters:
Dr. O'Connor's research proves what we've known at MWC for 12 years—grief is a natural learning process that requires time, support, and comprehensive care. This isn't just about "getting through it"—it's about understanding the incredible transformation happening within you - although unwanted.
Healthy Widow, Healthy Woman Podcast "The Science Behind Your Grief to Growth Journey" with Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor, Neuroscientist, Author & Professor, De...
02/01/2026
Black History Month honors the totality of Black brilliance — our leaders, organizers, artists, scholars, freedom fighters, and everyday people who shaped history against impossible odds.
Within that history are widows — not as a replacement for Black History, but as an integral part of it.
Black widows did not pause history when loss arrived. They continued it.
They raised children who became leaders.
They protected legacies under surveillance and threat.
They worked, taught, organized, and loved their communities forward while carrying private grief the world rarely acknowledged.
Honoring Black History means telling the full story — including the women whose labor, leadership, and sacrifice were often rendered invisible after loss. Not to overshadow the movement, but to complete it.
This month, we honor Black history in its fullness — and we make space to see every contributor, including the widows who carried on when the cameras turned away.
01/31/2026
NEW WIDOW LIFE®️ article out -
When Sarah’s husband passed away last year, she was overwhelmed with grief and the mountain of paperwork that followed. Among the documents was something she never expected: notice that she’d inherited his timeshare in Florida—a property she’d never seen and had no idea existed. Within weeks, she received her first bill: $1,847 in annual maintenance fees, due immediately.
Sarah’s story isn’t unique. Many widows discover too late that an inherited timeshare isn’t the vacation asset it was promised to be—it’s a financial burden that can drain thousands of dollars annually with virtually no escape route.
Widows don’t need platitudes.
They don’t need timelines.
They don’t need to be told how “strong” they are.
Widows need community, not isolation.
They need trauma-informed support, not expectations to move on.
They need financial stability, mental health care, workplace flexibility, and long-term resources—not short-term sympathy.
Widowhood is a life-altering transition that impacts identity, health, parenting, and economic security. When systems fail to recognize this, widows are left to carry impossible weight alone.
Advocacy begins with listening.
Change begins when widows are believed.
Support must extend beyond condolences.
At Modern Widows Club, we work to ensure widows have access to hope, healing, growth, and leadership because survival should never be the standard.
👉 Learn how to support widows and be part of the change at our website.
In the earliest days of widowhood, many women don’t need answers—they need support, understanding, and space to breathe.
Too often, society rushes grief or offers solutions when what’s truly needed is presence, community, and care. Asking what widows needed most in those early days helps us better understand how to show up—for ourselves, for each other, and for future widows.
At Modern Widows Club, we believe that listening is a form of advocacy. By sharing lived experiences, we help create pathways of hope, healing, growth, and leadership rooted in real needs not assumptions.
💬 Join the discussion: What did you need most in your earliest days of widowhood?
Your voice matters, and your story helps shape better support.
Hope begins when widows are seen, believed, and supported beyond sympathy.
Healing happens in community, through trauma-informed care and shared understanding.
Growth requires access to resources, stability, and opportunity not pressure.
Leadership rises when lived experience is honored and empowered.
Widowhood is a life-altering transition that impacts every area of life. At Modern Widows Club, we provide structured support and community so widows don’t have to navigate loss alone—and can move from survival to sustainability.
Your Story Matters: Why Widows Must Speak Up
This week, I had the privilege of recording a podcast interview in Los Angeles. During our post-interview conversation, I shared a statistic that stopped the entire production team in their tracks:
🤯There are 408,000 in the Los Angeles area alone.
The room went silent. Not one person on that team—smart, informed, compassionate people—had any idea the number was that high. And here’s the reality that’s even harder to swallow: California has the highest percentage of widows in the United States (with Florida and Texas next).
Yet when I asked about resources, programs, and support systems they knew of for this massive population, the answer was the same one I hear everywhere: crickets.
Yet, 7 out of 10 married women become a widow in America. Every 2 minutes….
The Invisible Crisis
Think about that. Nearly half a million widows in one metropolitan area, and:
∙ Few social service agencies have widow-specific programs
∙ Human services departments rarely target widows as a distinct vulnerable population
∙ Most places of worship lack effective, ongoing support beyond the first few weeks after loss
∙ The grief-to-growth resources that actually help widows rebuild their lives? Almost nowhere to be found—except here at Modern Widows Club
We are invisible in plain sight.
Why Your Story Changes Everything
This is exactly why your story matters. When you share what you’ve been through—the struggles, the gaps in support, the moments you felt abandoned by systems that should have helped you—you make the invisible visible.
That podcast team’s reaction reminded me: People don’t know what they don’t know. And they can’t fix what they can’t see.
Widower Richard Branson has said “What is misunderstood will always be underserved”. That’s us and it’s our role to help society understand.
If you want to know how many widows are in your city, comment below and we’ll research it for you!
01/24/2026
Since 2011, Modern Widows Club’s mission has been a lifeline of impact and support for thousands of widows.
A conversation with Carolyn Moor, the founder of Modern Widows Club, sheds light on how support for widows facilitates their journey from grief to growth dur...
01/24/2026
The Impact of Empowering Widows Worldwide
Hear our MWC Founder Carolyn Moor share the real impact empowering widows can have on families and communities alike. Making widows matter builds stronger co...
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Like every MWC story, ours starts with the simple act of loving someone.
As a women becomes newly widowed, she steps into the on going process of defining a new (and unwanted) self-identity without her partner. This reality is further heightened when she finds herself in a time-space quandary. For her, time has stood still, for the world at large, it has continued. It does not take long for her self-conscious awareness to reveal that these life circumstances cause a sudden and forever change. This internal and external change causes her to seek and find others by way of ‘re-socialization’, otherwise known as ‘finding her tribe.’
When she joins a new group, she will take on new norms, values and behaviors of that created ‘environment.’ This is why the positive approach we foster at MWC is vitally important in her healing and self actualization process. We meet her right where she’s at. Her first few steps will set the future trajectory for her ‘new me’ life. At MWC, we equally recognize and respect all our differences as an interfaith, multi-generational nonprofit. Our shared values and focus on unconditional love are what makes us stand out and highly effective in building greater communities.
At MWC we are interested in research based analysis, empirical investigations and surveys, conversations about subcultures, sociology, stigma and ‘dependency culture’ studies as well as positive psychology, ethnomethodology, physiologic effects of grief, the gender gap, meaning making, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (8 levels), emotional intelligence, pain to purpose resilience building, metanoia, adrenal fatigue, thanatology, neuroscience, compassion, trust, vulnerability, justice and spirituality.
These assist us in serving both our problem challenge and mission statement from the inside out. We serve a myriad of social needs for widows and we also raise awareness through advocacy to bring understanding.
As one MWC widow said, “I actually had no idea about how life altering becoming a widow was until I found myself becoming one. In one breathe, everything I believed about myself disappeared. I went from being seen as a married woman to being known only as a grieving widow. The impact is indescribable. I needed to find others who understood this and ask a lot of safe and confidential questions”.
Women come into widowhood with different challenges; disadvantages and advantages. They need help in trusting again, reducing fears on every level about a changing world and continual encouragement with re-defining themselves. At MWC, they are able to face their future in a nonjudgmental, tender, compassionate, safe and nurturing space with others who have their highest intention in mind. To do that, we need to challenge boundaries and structures, develop wide-spread community partnerships, raise awareness of vulnerabilities, to give empathy with limitations, and forge a livable path to generate solid, positive changes for these women. Finding role models and positive communities is the catalyst that sparks her transformative journey. Seeing is believing.
We hope to serve as a bridge of understanding, comfort, compassion and positive change between a widow and society at large.
