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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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12/26/2025
Widows as Thought Leaders for an Uncertain Future
Here’s what the Institute for the Future is discovering and what have known all along:
The world everyone else is just entering—the brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible world—is the world we’ve been navigating since our spouse died.
We’re not beginners in this new reality. We’re pioneers. We’re experts. We’re the ones who’ve been testing the strategies everyone else is just now discovering they need.
Part 1: How the widow experience uniquely prepares us to navigate—and lead—in a world that’s Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, and Incomprehensible
12/26/2025
Happy Kwanzaa from Modern Widows Club! 🕯️✨
As we honor the Seven Principles, we celebrate the strength, unity, and purpose that widows embody every day.
From Umoja (Unity) that brings us together in sisterhood,
to Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) that empowers us to rewrite our lives,
to Imani (Faith) that carries us through our deepest seasons—
each principle lives beautifully within our community.
May this Kwanzaa bring peace, reflection, and renewed hope to every widow who is rebuilding, rising, and reclaiming her future. ❤️🖤💚
12/25/2025
🎉 HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎉
To celebrate widow empowerment, resilience, and the women who inspire us every day, we’re giving away a powerful healing + hope bundle from Modern Widows Club!
✨ What You’ll Win:
📘 Legendary Widows: Stories of Legacy (signed)
📘 Daily Wisdom & Empowerment for Widows: 365 Day Devotional (signed)
💳 $25 Gift Card
These books honor the strength, courage, and legacy of widows worldwide—and now they could be yours.
How to Enter:
1️⃣ Follow
2️⃣ Tag a friend in the comments who inspires strength or community
(Each tag = one entry!)
✨ Winners are drawn every Friday! ✨
Good luck, beautiful hearts. 💛
12/25/2025
Permission to Feel It All
Here’s what grief teaches us that the cheerful holiday messages often miss: we can hold sadness and gratitude simultaneously. We can miss someone desperately while still finding moments of genuine joy. We can honor our grief while choosing to celebrate life.
You don’t have to pretend to be merry if you’re not. You don’t have to hide your tears to make others comfortable. You also don’t have to wear your grief like armor if you find yourself genuinely laughing or feeling light.
The holidays can be a time of taking stock—but for widows, that inventory looks different. You’re measuring what remains after profound loss. You’re counting blessings that now include resilience you never knew you possessed, compassion deepened by suffering, and the recognition that love doesn’t end when life does.
Starting Simple, Staying True
If you’re feeling overwhelmed about where to begin, try this: choose just one thing that feels meaningful. It might be:
∙ A quiet morning walk to watch the sunrise on Christmas Day
∙ A simple blessing spoken before a modest meal
∙ An evening spent looking at photos and sharing stories
∙ A phone call to someone else who might be lonely
∙ An act of service done in memory of your loved one
Start there. Let that one thing be enough. Let it be your anchor when everything else feels chaotic or demanding.
The Season Will Change, And So Will You
The beautiful, difficult truth about during the holidays is that it changes each year. What feels impossible this December may feel more manageable the next. What brought comfort this season may not work next year—and that’s perfectly okay.
You’re not trying to master the holidays. You’re simply trying to move through them with as much gentleness and authenticity as you can manage.
The true spirit of this season—whether you frame it as faith, hope, love, goodwill, or simply the resilience of the human heart—lives not in perfect celebrations but in honest ones. It lives in the courage to show up for life even when life has broken your heart ❤️🩹. It lives in choosing connection over isolation, even when connection is painful. It lives in you, as you navigate this tender, difficult, sacred season.
You Are Not Alone
Across the world, countless are reading these same words, feeling these same fears, asking these same questions. Though you may celebrate quietly or differently this year, you are part of a community that understands. We see you. We know this is hard. We honor your journey.
May you find moments of peace amid the pain. May you extend to yourself the same compassion you would offer a dear friend.
May you discover small, unexpected pockets of light even in the longest nights.
And may you know, deep in your bones, that however you choose to observe this holiday season—with full traditions or stripped-down simplicity, with family gatherings or quiet solitude, with joy or tears or both—you are doing it right.
The holidays may look different now. But love, remembrance, and hope? Those remain. Always.
You are stronger than you know. You are loved, you are valued, and your journey matters. May this season bring you exactly what your heart needs most.
I hope to meet you this year.
With love,
- Carolyn Moor, MWC Founder
12/25/2025
✨ Christmas can hold both sorrow and light — and that’s okay.
At Modern Widows Club, we honor every widow navigating the holidays with courage, tenderness, and resilience.
May this season remind you that you are not walking this road alone. There is community here, there is hope here, and there is space for your story — exactly as it is. ❤️🎄
Wishing you peace, comfort, and moments of joy this Christmas.
12/23/2025
The early days of December after a profound loss can feel especially heavy. The longing to turn back time…the ache for the person who should still be here… can be overwhelming for anyone navigating grief, widowhood, or life after loss.
These emotions are not signs of weakness.
They are reminders of the deep love that still lives within you.
Grief is not the end of love — it is part of the loving cycle.
During this tender season, having community, connection, and support can make all the difference. You deserve a space where your grief is understood, where your heart feels seen, and where healing can gently begin.
Love deeply.
Grieve fully.
Seek connection that holds you through the holidays and beyond.
👉 If you’re longing for support during this season, you’re not alone. Find your community here: https://modernwidowsclub.org/local-communities
12/23/2025
Movie Review: Eternity
A widows perspective on this new movie in theaters now.
Why It Matters for Widows
- Here’s what makes Eternity worth your time: it takes seriously the question that haunts many of us in quieter moments. Not “will I love again?” but rather “how do I honor what was while living what is?”
The film shows Joan frequently visiting the “Archives,” where she can relive memories of her earthly life. She becomes almost addicted to rewatching her moments with Larry, losing herself in what was. It’s a beautiful metaphor for how grief can trap us in memory, even when we’ve chosen to move forward.
The movie’s resolution—which I won’t spoil—suggests that the deepest love isn’t found in perfection or passion alone, but in the accumulation of small, imperfect moments that make up a shared life.
Joan’s struggle isn’t really about choosing between two men. It’s about choosing between two versions of herself: the woman she was at 20, full of possibility and untested love, and the woman she became at 80, shaped by decades of ordinary moments, arguments over dinner, grandchildren’s birthday parties, and the quiet intimacy of growing old together.
As widows, we know this tension. We honor the memory of young love while also recognizing that real love—the kind that survives mortgage payments and sick kids and disagreements about whether to remodel the kitchen—is built in the everyday.
How to Support and Comfort Someone Going Through Grief
- A loss of a loved one is hard. In the same breath, another type of hard is supporting someone who has just lost a loved one as they go through the grieving process.
People from all walks of life have to face the effects of and the impact it has on individuals and our society, says Author and widow advocate Carolyn Moor.
In this talk, she shares insights on how to support and comfort someone going through grief. Founder and President, of Modern Widows Club®️ The Movement for Widow Care.
Widowed on Valentine’s Day 2000 and with two young daughters to raise solo (she did it). Carolyn struggled to find the and resources she needed to model the healing and growth she desperately sought in the stage of widowhood.
This ultimately led to the founding of Modern Widows Club to support and empower families going through a grieving process.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the conference format but independently organized by a local community. Watch full video (LINK IN STORY): https://youtu.be/d8dK3zyrwDY?si=BZBcPahg-eSCUxAU
12/23/2025
Legendary Widow Story: Mary Kay Ash didn’t just build a cosmetics empire—she rebuilt her entire life after loss, proving that widowhood can be a catalyst for extraordinary transformation.
The pink Cadillacs, the recognition programs, the emphasis on lifting other women up—all of it stemmed from Mary Kay’s understanding of what women needed because she had needed it herself. She had experienced firsthand the financial vulnerability that came with losing a spouse and being a woman in a male-dominated workforce.
Her journey stands as a testament to resilience, reinvention, and the extraordinary possibilities that can emerge when we refuse to let loss have the final word.
✨ Permission Slips for Widows This Holiday Season ✨
The holidays can bring up a complicated mix of grief, love, loneliness, and emotional overwhelm and widows often feel pressured to “hold it all together.”
But healing doesn’t follow holiday timelines.
And widowhood doesn’t disappear because the world is celebrating.
This carousel is your reminder that you are allowed to honor your grief, your pace, and your emotional capacity this season.
💛 You have permission to rest.
💛 You have permission to say no.
💛 You have permission to feel joy without guilt.
💛 You have permission to grieve in your own way.
If the holidays feel heavy, you’re not failing , you’re human, and you’re healing.
Widowhood during the holiday season deserves compassion, understanding, and community support. You don’t have to navigate it alone.
👉 Want personalized guidance and community? Take the WEQ Widow Empowerment Quiz today and discover what kind of support you need this season. Click: https://bit.ly/MWCWEQ
12/21/2025
is more than , it’s a radical initiation into maturity, self-discovery, and reparenting.
It’s standing face-to-face with every tender root of your identity… without the mirror of your partner to reflect you back. 🌿
You’re not just mourning who you lost, you’re meeting who you are.
The version of you that must now mother herself. Comfort herself. Become her own safe place.
This journey isn’t just about surviving loss, it’s about becoming undeniably you today.
12/20/2025
The thousands of widows who share their stories with us make it possible to create resources like our Secondary Losses graphic—a powerful illustration of the invisible realities of widowhood that often go unnoticed.
Holiday memories could easily be added, gifts that would come from those who loved us best.
When you speak up about the losses that extend beyond losing your person, your voice creates impact. It’s a reminder that widow care isn’t separate from healthcare—it is healthcare. And women’s health must include widows’ health.
Share if you agree.
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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.
