Healthy Widow Healthy Woman

Welcome to Healthy Widow Healthy Woman Podcast. Where no widow is left behind as we pursue how to empower women in widowhood to thrive in every healthy way possible.

The Emotional Spectrum: How Colors Influence Our Feelings in Widowhood 06/09/2025

The Emotional Spectrum: How Colors Influence Our Feelings in Widowhood We Welcome to Healthy Widow Healthy Woman Podcast, Guest residential home décor on-air expert for QVC network., showcasing the latest in interior design and home fashion to millions of television viewers. She’s a member of American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). For more than thirty years, Sharon has been combining her unique ability to see and combine color, along with her aesthetic vision for simple elegance, to professionally help families create homes that are exceptionally beautiful as well as functional. She takes great care in listening to client's hearts as they express their personal ideas to help them realize their dreams. She is the author of many books including, The Simple Home: A Faith-filled Guide to Simplicity, Peace, and Joy in Your Home, My Name Isn't Martha, But I Can Decorate My home, and Decorating without Fear. Sharon's work has appeared numerous times on such highly-regarded television shows and networks such as The Today Show, HGTV, CBN, and DIY Network. Her newest endeavor is on her YouTube Channel Color Therapy & Healing Spaces with Sharon Hanby-Robie Sharon Hanby-Robie explores the transformative role color plays in the widow healing journey. Sharon reveals the deeply personal crisis that first connected her to the emotional impact of color, and how this awakening led to her groundbreaking "Safe Space with Sharon" approach to designing environments for those experiencing profound transitions and hoping to use color to better communicate themselves. The conversation delves into specific colors that can help widows navigate overwhelming emotions and identity disruption—from calming blues that reduce anxiety to grounding earth tones that provide stability during life's most turbulent transitions. Sharon shares evidence-based insights on how our visual environment directly impacts our psychological wellbeing when grief has disrupted our sense of home and self. Through touching client stories, Sharon illustrates how redesigning living spaces becomes a powerful metaphor for rebuilding life after loss. Hear the remarkable transformations. This episode offers practical wisdom for anyone seeking to create spaces that honor what was while supporting what can be. /episode/index/show/healthywidowhealthywoman/id/36659300

Solo Parenting, Resilience & Widowhood: A Healthy Way Forward 05/19/2025

Rebuilding After Loss: Tara Gidus Collingwood's Journey of Hope and Purpose 03/31/2025

Rebuilding After Loss: Tara Gidus Collingwood's Journey of Hope and Purpose From Wife to Widow to Wister®: How Healthy Choices Led to New Beginnings and Sweet Success In this heartfelt episode of the Healthy Widow Healthy Woman podcast, we welcome Key Points to Savor: + Tara opens up about her personal journey through widowhood and shares the transformative moments that shaped her path forward. Tara reflects on our first meeting and how that connection became a turning point in her grief journey. + She discusses the profound impact of the Modern Widows Community on her personal healing, highlighting how the "Hope, Heal, Grow, Lead" pathway provided structure to her recovery and empowered her to embrace a healthy widowhood. + The conversation takes a joyful turn as Tara shares her remarriage story and the beautiful challenges of blending families. She tells the touching story behind "Basil's Award," a meaningful tribute that honors her past while celebrating her present being an example of the impact MWC ripples out to our children, family, future partners and others closest to us. + Tara also discusses her commitment to giving back as a WEE (Widows Empowerment Event) Speaker and her role on the MWC Ambassador Council, explaining how helping others has become an essential part of her healing journey. + Tara is currently leading our popular monthly + If you'd like to meet Tara in person, join us at our She'll be presenting on how quality sleep during widowhood can provide the essential energy you need to continue moving forward on your healthy widow healthy woman journey. + The episode concludes with Tara introducing her exciting new venture, "Truffles & Treats by Tara," where she combines her expertise as a dietician with her passion for creating delicious, mindful chocolate indulgences. This episode offers listeners a powerful reminder that grief and joy can coexist, and that finding purpose after loss is both possible and transformative. Learn more and reach out to Tara on IG and her webpage: and We extend our heartfelt thanks to Tara and all our guests on the Healthy Widow Healthy Woman podcast. You can find our episodes wherever you enjoy quality podcasts—iHeart, Apple, Spotify, and more. Until next time, embrace the hope, healing, and growth in your own world. We're committed to elevating your experience every step of the way throughout your widowhood journey. [email protected] 844- 4- A-WIDOW https://modernwidowsclub.org /episode/index/show/healthywidowhealthywoman/id/35949730

Adventure Women Travel at Modern Widows Club® 02/27/2025

Widowhood in the 21st Century with Dr. Debbie Oliver 01/07/2025

Inspire, Connect and Lead in Widowhood 03/04/2024

Inspire, Connect and Lead in Widowhood Inspire Connect Lead: Empowering Your Mentoring and Leadership Gifts written by Founder Carolyn Moor will enable you to become inspired to connect and lead widows with your natural gifts. She discusses in this HWHW podcast how to activate the power between you and your mentee and what it requires of your gifts of your time, availability, communication, integrity, understanding, listening, emotional support, knowing limitations, humbleness, humor, knowledge, positive words, feedback, practical support, action and leadership. Carolyn's experience in raising awareness and developing the first (and only) widow mentoring and leadership nonprofit organization, Modern Widows Club, brings a decade of expertise to the important topic of empowering widow support, solutions and research. If we are to solve the many complex issues for widows worldwide to break the barriers of social exclusion and to improve their financial security and stop neglecting women in their greatest time of need, it begins by educating and training widows and professionals to lead the charge in advancing widow leadership. Widows are subject matter experts in their experience and to serve widows better than we have before their stories need to be heard by mentors, leaders and advocates. Use this resource on how to become a compassionate, empathetic, non-judgmental widow mentor and leader by engaging your capability to engage your natural gifts to advocate in local communities, groups and places of worship. Hear powerful stories and insights from decades of lived experiences mentoring and leading widows on the front lines of authentic community building. Serving widows is the last area of great social significance to be addressed and solved for women's health, join the movement to create positive change. It requires a new level of adaptive leadership based on trust and belonging to ensure widows develop unlimited thinking towards their future. Embrace this opportunity to build flourishing widow support communities to empower both the mentee and mentoring leader in you. Buy this book where all books are sold. Here's a Enjoy my book and podcast, Carolyn Moor /episode/index/show/healthywidowhealthywoman/id/30226568

A Daughter's Voice at Modern Widows Club: Cultivating Their Personal Legacy of Love 02/15/2024

2024: New Beginnings and Daring Topics 01/14/2024

2024: New Beginnings and Daring Topics We're delighted to welcome back the Healthy Widow Healthy Woman podcast! Following a hiatus and Modern Widows Club Founder Carolyn Moor's writing sabbatical, she has returned with a lengthy list of requested topics scheduled for 2024. In this episode, Carolyn Moor discusses the inaugural book introduced by Modern Widows Club in 2023, titled "Legendary Widows: Stories of Legacy." She delves into why the book serves as a narrative changer, emphasizing its significance in highlighting the intrinsic value of sharing the stories of empowered widows for both women in widowhood and society at large. Tune in to uncover the extensive array of upcoming topics featured on our short list. Stay connected for future episodes delving into even more adventurous, compassionate, and taboo subjects—conversations that consistently take place in our private forums at Modern Widows Club. All aimed at fostering holistic health for widows in womanhood. Here's a preview of some upcoming topics in 2024: 1. Launch of the 3rd Edition of "Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenge," book featuring Modern Widows Club and its Survivor Mission, with Mt. Sinai Author Dr. Jonathan DePierro. 2. Managing Estate Sales in Widowhood: Strategies for dealing with belongings, especially significant items. 3. Widow's Fire: Navigating the awakening of the sensual body with Dr. Marissa Magsino. 4. Toxic Attraction: Exploring why narcissists, codependents, and seekers of abusive relationships are drawn to widows, with insights from Cyndi Williams, LCSW, and real MWC widows who have faced this experience. 5. Coping with Dying Abroad: Better preparation and strategies for dealing with this unexpected circumstance. 6. Trials and Tribulations of Nonprofit Building in Widow Organizations, featuring discussions with the HQ Modern Widows Club Team. 7. Selling Real Estate in Widowhood: Tips, Trends, and Takeaways for navigating this process. 8. Widow Advocacy: Insights into the situations in Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Israel. 9. International Widows Day Forum and the formation of the first Widowhood Caucus in DC. 10. Heroes and Champions in the World of Widow Advocacy: Recognizing those making a difference. 11. Remarried Widows: Dispelling myths and exploring the reality. 12. Fatherless Daughters Speak: A discussion on the title and its implications. 13. Dating Again: A Golden Bachelor Review for widows re-entering the dating scene. 14. Women's Health Equity and Widowhood Gaps: Exploring disparities and potential solutions. Here's a glimpse of some of the excitement that lies ahead in 2024. We hope you will join us all year long and follow our podcast to expand your knowledge of all things healthy widowhood healthy womanhood. /episode/index/show/healthywidowhealthywoman/id/29477228