Widowed AF: Real stories of love, grief and beyond - With Rosie Moss
British Podcast Awards 2025 - Winner.In 2018, Rosie Moss lost her husband Ben in a diving accident, leaving her widowed at 37 with three children. Finding grief resources shallow and platitudes empty, she created Widowed AF—a podcast offering honest conversations about loss.
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Say the Word: Suicide, Survival & the People Left Behind with CALM’s Michael Jarvis (opens the original)
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Say the Word: Suicide, Survival & the People Left Behind with CALM’s Michael Jarvis What happens when we stop being afraid to say the word suicide? This week, Rosie is joined by Michael Jarvis from CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) for a conversation about suicide, the people left behind, and why talking openly could help save a life. Michael comes to the conversation from both sides. He works in suicide prevention, but he also knows the devastation of suicide loss personally. In 2016, hi
Widowed With Kids: Sharon Rosenbloom on Parenting Through Grief, 24 Years On (opens the original)
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Content warning: cancer, death, end-of-life care, child bereavement and serious illness. Twenty-four years ago, Sharon Rosenbloom’s husband Simon died from cancer, leaving her with two young children and a life she had never imagined having to live without him. Today, Sharon is a bereavement therapist, coach and author of Widowed With Kids . But before we get to everything she has learned since Simon died, we go right back to the beginning. Sharon and Simon met on a blind date she nearly didn’t
“I Don’t Believe His Death Was Preventable” | Reshma Kearney on Suicide, Stigma & Raising Grieving Children (opens the original)
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In this episode of Widowed AF , Rosie speaks with Reshma Kearney, a US-based mum of three, trauma-informed yoga teacher and grief advocate, whose husband Sean died by suicide in September 2022. Sean was an orthopaedic surgeon, a lieutenant colonel in the US Army, a dad, husband, outdoorsman and high achiever. He had also lived for years with periods of depression, anxiety, anger and increased alcohol use. But when he died, Reshma wasn’t expecting it. There was no obvious final downward spiral. N
“Look Through the Turn."The Day Paula’s Husband Didn’t Come Home (opens the original)
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Content warning: sudden death, fatal road collision, bereavement, anxiety and depression. Paula Thomas had spent years knowing that her husband Jeff’s job carried risk. He was an active-duty US Navy submariner. There were long deployments, months without contact and the strange reality of loving someone whose job sometimes took him beneath the ocean for months at a time. But when the knock at the door finally came, it wasn’t because of something that had happened at sea. Jeff had gone out for an
“We Have to Clock In Today”: Keisha Wheeler on Widowhood & Raising Seven Children (opens the original)
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When Keisha Wheeler met Patrick at college, she wasn’t looking for a husband. Patrick, however, seemed fairly certain he’d found his wife. What followed was a marriage full of faith, family, music, ministry and, eventually, seven children. Then, in December 2021, everything changed. Patrick developed chest pain while the family were preparing to deliver food to their community. Within hours, Keisha was being told that he had suffered a ruptured aorta. He underwent emergency surgery but never reg
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