The Widow Diaries
The Widow Diaries
Podcast Description
The Widow Diaries is a heartfelt and honest podcast that explores what life really looks like after losing your person, especially at a younger age. Hosted by journalist and young widow Caroline Winter, each episode shares deeply personal conversations with those navigating the unique, complicated, and often invisible world of grief. Through powerful storytelling and raw reflection, The Widow Diaries honours the messy, beautiful, and courageous ways people rebuild their lives after unimaginable loss. Created by First Light Widowed Support, this podcast is for anyone touched by widowhood, or simply seeking to understand love and loss more deeply. The Widow Diaries: where no story is the same and every story matters.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast delves into themes of grief, love, and rebuilding life after loss, touching on subjects such as parenting through grief, blended families, and the transformative power of community support. Episodes feature deep discussions like Megan Daley's exploration of storytelling's role in processing loss and Rebecca Adams’ journey in turning grief into advocacy through First Light Widowed Support.
The Widow Diaries is a heartfelt and honest podcast that explores what life really looks like after losing your person, especially at a younger age. Hosted by journalist and young widow Caroline Winter, each episode shares deeply personal conversations with those navigating the unique, complicated, and often invisible world of grief. Through powerful storytelling and raw reflection, The Widow Diaries honours the messy, beautiful, and courageous ways people rebuild their lives after unimaginable loss. Created by First Light Widowed Support, this podcast is for anyone touched by widowhood, or simply seeking to understand love and loss more deeply. The Widow Diaries: where no story is the same and every story matters.
What if grief began long before the goodbye?
Lisa Corduff is a speaker, coach, writer, and solo mum, but her journey through grief began years before her husband Nick passed away.
As she puts it, “addiction widowed me” and in this deeply honest conversation, Lisa opens up about loving someone through addiction, navigating solo parenting, and the complex grief of losing someone you’d already started to let go of.
We explore what Nick’s death taught her about life, identity, and rebuilding from the inside out and how she continues to show up for others with vulnerability, humour and radical compassion.
Together, Caroline and Lisa chat about:
- How addiction shaped her marriage, motherhood and eventual grief
- The tension of claiming widowhood after separation
- What she’s learned about life, love, and letting go
- Her honest take on solo parenting, identity and strength
- Getting unstuck and giving yourself permission to be creative
- How to fill your own cup amid the storm
Quotes that resonate with Lisa “No one is waiting at the end of this with a medal for you getting through this the hard way” and “life is a creative act”
About The Widow Diaries
A podcast that holds space for the often-unspoken stories of grief, love, and life after loss – especially for those widowed young. Hosted by journalist and widow Caroline Winter and brought to you by First Light Widowed Support.
This is The Widow Diaries: Where no story is the same – and every story matters.
Links
- Learn more about First Light Widowed Support
- Follow First Light on Instagram
- Like First Light on Facebook
- Connect with First Light on LinkedIn
- Connect with Caroline Winter on LinkedIn
- Learn more about Lisa Corduff
- Listen to Lisa’s podcast This moment in time
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