March 1, 2018
By Jo Smith-Hooker, from When Hope Shines. When someone dies, you don’t just lose the person. You also lose every moment you would have had with that […]
February 21, 2018
An excerpt from Dani Holland’s blog, Three Chicks and a Hen I will preface this post by saying I am not a tidy person. I do […]
February 11, 2018
An excerpt from Emma Hopkins-Curry’s blog, Widow Mountain. October 2014. I know it sounds a little sick, but the novelty of losing a loved one wears off […]
January 31, 2018
By Jo Smith-Hooker, from When Hope Shines. I typically struggle with the start of each new year. Coming into this year however I made myself approach it […]
January 20, 2018
An excerpt from Emma Hopkins-Curry’s blog, Widow Mama. January, 2016. So I realised as I was making New Year’s resolutions (for the first time ever), that my […]
December 19, 2017
An excerpt from Dani Holland’s blog, Three Chicks and a Hen January, 2017 In four hours it will have been one whole year since I saw […]
June 3, 2017
First Light is excited to announce our first regional Victoria local catch ups for widowed people have been scheduled for Ararat and Ballarat in the coming weeks. […]
April 2, 2017
Jo Smith-Hooker lost not only her world as she knew it, but also her future plans and dreams when her husband Daniel died unexpectedly in September […]
February 18, 2017
We’ve been asked in the past why we included the word ‘widow‘ in the name of our organisation, implying that it’s a terrible word that our […]
