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The Widow Diaries

The Widow Diaries

By: Caroline Winter
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 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.First Light Widowed Support Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Social Sciences
Episodes
  • What death taught me about living – Lisa Corduff

    What death taught me about living – Lisa Corduff
    Aug 9 2025
    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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    59 mins
  • Healing holistically and regaining power – Paula Hindle

    Healing holistically and regaining power – Paula Hindle
    Aug 2 2025
    What if the key to healing after loss… started with your body?

    When Paula Hindle lost her husband Chris to suicide in 2013, she was suddenly a solo mother to two small children, with grief in one hand and survival in the other.

    But what followed wasn’t just a journey through pain, it was a deep, powerful return to the body, to self-worth, and to the kind of healing that reconnects you to life.

    Since then, Paula has dedicated herself to healing – emotionally, physically, and spiritually – and now supports other women in reclaiming their strength, sensuality, and self-worth.

    Together, Caroline and Paula chat about:
    • The early days of widowhood and mothering through trauma
    • How grief can disconnect you from your body and how to come home again
    • Navigating identity as a widow and a woman, longing for connection and confidence
    • Reclaiming your body, confidence, and intimacy after loss
    • Finding your inner power to move from surviving to thriving



    Quote that resonates with Paula “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we’re spiritual beings having a human experience”

    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 Paula Unlocking Her Potential
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    37 mins
  • The weight of dates and the shape of grief – Jodi Carpenter

    The weight of dates and the shape of grief – Jodi Carpenter
    Jul 26 2025
    What happens when the happiest day of your life becomes one of the hardest to face?

    For Jodi Carpenter, New Year’s Eve was the day she met her husband Chris, the day they got engaged, and eventually the day they married. But after losing Chris to brain cancer that once-joyful date – like so many others – took on a whole new meaning.

    In this tender and wise conversation, Jodi – a second-generation widow, mum of two, and newly minted grandma – reflects on the complicated beauty of anniversaries, the impact of generational grief, and how we carry our people forward with us.

    With raw honesty and deep compassion, Jodi shares how her losses have fuelled her passion to help the wider population be more educated around grief.

    Together, Caroline and Jodi chat about:
    • How milestone dates like anniversaries and New Year’s shift in widowhood
    • Parenting through grief after having lost a parent young
    • What to say and not say, to support someone facing painful dates
    • The legacy of love that lives on in her children and future grandchild
    • How grief changes over time, but never disappears


    Quotes that resonate with Jodi “She was not powerful because she wasn’t scared, but because she went on so strongly despite the fear” and “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it”

    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
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    40 mins
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