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Parenting through grief: Small ways to ease the stress

19th April 2026 Blog

Grief and stress often go hand in hand. When you’ve lost a partner, the emotional weight can feel relentless – especially when you’re also navigating lone parenthood. The person who once shared the load, who listened at the end of a long day, is no longer there. And that absence ...

Parenting bereaved children and navigating Mother’s Day as a sole parent

13th March 2026 Blog, Stories

Mother’s Day can be complicated for many people, but when you are parenting bereaved children as a sole parent, the day can carry a particularly heavy emotional weight. WAY Widowed and Young member Astrid Dolan shares her reflections as she faces her second Mother’s Day as a widowed mum.This year, ...

Getting through Valentine’s Day: Tips from members of WAY Widowed and Young

12th February 2026 Advice, Blog

Valentine’s Day can be especially hard when you’ve been widowed at a young age, awakening memories of love and loss. Yet many members of the UK charity WAY Widowed and Young have found ways to make the day meaningful again – for themselves and their children. Whether through self-care, celebrating friendships ...

Navigating Christmas with bereaved children: Tips from widowed parents

12th December 2025 Advice, Blog

Christmas can be a really difficult time for bereaved families. Here are some tips from members of the charity WAY Widowed and Young about how they have navigated the festive season in the past… We light a candle in the morning and let it burn all day, to honour that there’s ...

Sharing Stories, Strengthening Hope: Navigating life as a widowed dad

17th November 2025 Blog, Stories

To mark Children’s Grief Awareness Week, WAY Widowed and Young member Tim shares the story of how he has navigated the past four years as a widowed dad after his wife Laura died of breast cancer.I met my wife, Laura, in 2007. It was just purely by chance that we ...

Emma’s story: Supporting bereaved children with special educational needs – finding a way through

22nd October 2025 Blog, Stories

WAY Widowed and Young Ambassador Emma shares her story and advice for other parents after supporting her daughter, Sophie, who was diagnosed with autism after her dad died. For WAY Ambassador Emma and her teenage daughter Sophie, the last few years have been a challenge that they have learned to navigate ...

Life after suicide bereavement: Lisa’s story

9th September 2025 Blog, Stories

WAY Widowed and Young member Lisa shares how she navigated grief after her husband took his own life two and half years ago – and explains how Winston’s Wish helped her to support her three young children.On 7th March 2023, my life came crumbling down unexpectedly. The police came to my ...

School child with backpack holding mum's hand

Going back to school following a bereavement: Tips from widowed parents

15th August 2025 Advice, Blog

As the new school term approaches, our friends at the charity WAY Widowed and Young offer their advice on how they’ve navigated the back-to-school routine with their children following a bereavement. If it’s their first day back at school after a bereavement, it may help to talk with the child in ...

Navigating summer holidays: Advice from the widowed community

17th July 2025 Advice, Blog

Our friends at WAY Widowed and Young asked their peer support network to share their advice on holidaying after being widowed young. Here are their tips… My teenage daughter and I have gone to places my husband would have liked to have visited. We take some of his ashes with us ...

Navigating Father’s Day as a widowed dad: Gary’s story

5th June 2025 Blog, Stories

To mark Father’s Day, we hear from Gary – a Trustee of our full circle partners at the charity WAY Widowed and Young – about how he has coped as a widowed dad raising his young daughter, Hannah, after the death of his wife Angela. My advice to other widowed dads ...

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