Modern Widows Club

02/25/2026

Meet Jeanie, Jen, Lisa, Reshma and Lesley. Widows. Sharing how their widowhood and membership story intertwines with Modern Widows Club.

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 compa...

02/25/2026

Widowhood impacts mental health in ways that are often unseen and unspoken. Grief doesn’t end after the funeral, and healing doesn’t follow a timeline.

Too many widows are left to navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, and isolation without the support they deserve—while being expected to “stay strong” and carry on.

This space exists to change that.

We believe mental health care, community, and compassion are essential in widowhood—not optional. Your experience matters. Your needs are valid. And your voice belongs here.

💬 Join the conversation below—or simply sit with the question.
However you show up today is enough.

# grief

02/24/2026

Reflect on your love story—especially the one you’re learning to have with yourself. Loss reveals strength, resilience, and a depth you may not have known you carried.
Replace self-criticism with compassion. Honor how far you’ve come, even if the steps feel small. Healing is still happening.
Your love story didn’t end—it evolved. 🤍

02/24/2026

Data from Modern Widows Club’s Widow Empowerment Quiz, representing over 8,000+ voices, paints a stark picture of functional collapse in early widowhood:

Meal Preparation and Nutrition:
The majority of newly widowed women skip meals entirely, forget to eat, or survive on whatever requires the least effort. Some lose dangerous amounts of weight; others gain weight from processed foods. Planning, shopping for, and preparing nutritious meals becomes insurmountable.

Sleep Disruption:
Sleep problems are nearly universal, with most reporting severe insomnia, early waking, or sleep that provides no rest. The sleep deprivation compounds every other challenge, creating a vicious cycle of exhaustion and dysfunction.

Work Performance:
Widows report inability to concentrate, memory problems, decision-making paralysis, and emotional flooding at unpredictable moments. They need their jobs more than ever, but their capacity to perform has been devastated.

Parenting While Grieving:
Widowed mothers must help their children process grief while barely functioning themselves, doing bedtime routines and homework help while running on empty. Plus, possibly caregiving for elderly or disabled parents.

Read the new, important WIDOW LIFE®️ article on this topic - https://open.substack.com/pub/modernwidowsclub/p/why-widows-desperately-need-occupational?r=qxig8&utm_medium=ios

New Widows Can’t Cook, Sleep, or Work—And Healthcare Has No Answer

02/23/2026

Widowhood Is a Mental Health Issue. Period.

The loss of a spouse doesn’t just break a heart—it can disrupt sleep, memory, concentration, identity, finances, and the nervous system. Anxiety, depression, PTSD, brain fog, isolation, and physical illness are not personal failures in widowhood. They are grief responses.

Yet too many widows are expected to “be strong,” return to normal, and carry on—without adequate mental health support, workplace protection, or community care.

We must do better.

Advocating for widows means:
• Normalizing mental health care after loss
• Expanding access to grief-informed therapy and resources
• Creating safe spaces where widows don’t have to explain or perform healing
• Acknowledging that grief doesn’t follow timelines

Mental health support is not optional in widowhood—it is essential.

If you are a widow reading this: your feelings make sense.
If you love or serve widows: listen, believe, and advocate.

Healing is not weakness.
Support is not a luxury.
And no widow should have to navigate this alone. 🤍

👉 Join our membership today and be surrounded by women who understand.

https://modernwidowsclub.org/membership

02/20/2026

“When your spouse dies, you get three bereavement days. Three days to grieve, arrange a funeral, notify Social Security, start the estate process, and somehow return to work ready to perform. This isn’t just inadequate—it’s inhumane.

Nearly 11 million widowed women live in the United States today. More than one million join their ranks every year.

Yet despite widowhood being recognized as the number one most stressful life event a person can experience, our policies treat it as a minor inconvenience requiring barely more time off than a dental appointment.”

Important new WIDOW LIFE. Please read the full article- https://open.substack.com/pub/modernwidowsclub/p/the-bereavement-policy-crisis-why?r=qxig8&utm_medium=ios

02/20/2026

Reclaim Your Life. Rediscover Your Strength. Reconnect With Joy.

After the loss of a spouse or partner, many widows place their own health and wellbeing last. Appointments are delayed. Self-care fades while survival takes over.

The 2026 Widow’s Health & Wellbeing Experience is a National Conference Experience created to gently bring the focus back to you.

This two-day, in-person experience is designed exclusively for widows at any stage of the journey. It offers space to pause, breathe, and care for your whole self—mind, body, and spirit—alongside women who truly understand life after loss.

This is not about moving on.
It is about honoring your grief while caring for yourself.

✨ What to expect:
• Connection with widows from across the country
• Wellness-centered sessions and gentle activities
• Time for rest, reflection, and renewal

📍 Drury Plaza Hotel at Disney Springs® Area – Orlando, Florida
📅 June 2026
🎟️ Limited capacity | Registration required
💲 $349

Discounted hotel rooms ($209/night) and event parking ($15/day) available after registration.

Your health matters. Your grief deserves care. You belong here.
👉 Register by clicking the link below!

https://bit.ly/WHWBEVT

02/20/2026

2026 Widows’ Health & Wellbeing Experience - Registration is open now!
😊A two-day gathering designed exclusively for to prioritize health, healing, and community after loss.
📍 Drury Plaza Hotel at Disney Springs, Orlando, FL
📅 June 19-20, 2026 (Friday-Saturday)
💫 $349 (both days included)
🏨 Special hotel rate: $209/night (includes breakfast & evening Kickback®)

What’s Included:
✨ Friday Evening Meet & Greet Reception
✨ Opening Ceremony & MWC Volunteer Awards
✨ Saturday Full-Day Wellness Programming
✨ Widow Booth Partner Pavilion
✨ Fellowship Lunch
✨ Saturday Evening Themed Social
✨ Community Tote & Name Badge
✨ Connection with women who truly understand

This is your invitation to pause, invest in your wellbeing, and heal alongside women who get it.
🎟️ Register today: https://bit.ly/WHWBEVT
You deserve this.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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02/19/2026

February is often framed as a celebration of love—and this year, we invite you to turn that love inward.

Grief has no timeline and no right way to be carried. Your journey through loss is uniquely your own, and where you are today is enough.

Accepting yourself exactly as you are—tired, hopeful, uncertain, healing—is an act of deep self-love. Speak to yourself with the same tenderness you would offer a dear friend. Let compassion replace self-criticism.

Choosing hope, healing, growth, and community—at whatever pace and level feels right for you—is self-love in action. Your healing matters, and we are honored to walk alongside you.

Join our community today by clicking the link below!

https://modernwidowsclub.org/membership

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02/18/2026

Grief doesn’t end love.
It changes how love shows up.

For many widows, love continues in memories, in the way we care for others, in traditions we keep, in the strength it takes to keep going.

💬 What’s one way your love still shows up in your life today?
There’s no right answer. One word, one sentence, or simply reading along is enough.

You are seen here. 🤍

02/17/2026

Black History Month: The Woman Who Turned Grief Into a Thirty-Year Fight for Justice

When Myrlie Evers-Williams became a widow after the assassination of her husband, Medgar Evers, her grief could have silenced her. Instead, it sharpened her resolve.

For more than 30 years, Myrlie carried her loss alongside a relentless pursuit of justice—refusing to let her husband’s murder be forgotten, reopening a cold case the world had moved on from, and ultimately helping secure accountability decades later.

Her story reminds us that widowhood is not the end of purpose.
It is not the erasure of love.
And it is not the quieting of a woman’s voice.

Myrlie Evers shows us that grief can coexist with courage—and that widows have long been leaders, truth-tellers, and architects of change.

This Black History Month, we honor a widow who turned loss into legacy.