The Widow's Collective

The Widow’s Collective is where grief meets hope, healing, and community. Hosted by grief coach and widow, Lauren Lentz, each episode offers tender reflections, real conversations, and practical tools to help you navigate life after loss. Whether you’re in the depths of early grief or learning to reimagine your life in the “after,” you’ll find a gentle space to land here — one that honors your story, your pace, and your humanity.

The Widow's Collective is a education podcast hosted by Lauren Lentz, with 37 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Lauren Lentz hosts The Widow's Collective, a education show with 37 episodes published.

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  EPISODE 36: "Will My Child Be Ruined By This?" - Parenting Through Grief After Loss with Jessica Correnti

  Jun 4, 202655 minS0

  <p>One of the biggest fears many widowed parents carry after the death of a spouse is this:</p><p><b>"Will my child be ruined by this?"</b></p><p>When your child loses a parent, it's natural to worry about what this loss will mean for them long-term. Who will they become because of this experience? What will they carry forward? How do you help them navigate something so enormous while you're grieving too?</p><p>In this final episode of Season 1, I sit down with grief specialist, Certified Child Life Specialist, author, and bereaved mother <b>Jessica...

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  Episode 35: Learning To Trust Yourself Again After Loss

  May 28, 202627 minS1

  <p>After the death of a spouse, many widows don’t just lose the person they love — they also lose their sense of safety, predictability, and trust in themselves.</p><p>In this episode, we explore the invisible ways grief impacts self-trust and why loss can leave widows feeling hypervigilant, emotionally unsteady, fearful of future pain, and disconnected from their own inner voice.</p><p>We discuss:</p><p>• Why widowhood disrupts your relationship with safety and certainty<br/>• The nervous system’s response to trauma & loss<br/>• Hypervigilance, overthinking, and emotional preparedness after grief<br/>• Fear of future loss, attachment, an...

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  EPISODE 34: “The Pressure To Do Grief ‘Right’"

  May 21, 202624 minS0

  <p>So many grieving women quietly carry the pressure to do widowhood “correctly.”</p><p>To cope correctly.<br/>To heal correctly.<br/>To move forward correctly.<br/>To parent correctly.<br/>To honor their person correctly.</p><p>But grief is not a performance.<br/>And widowhood is not something you master perfectly.</p><p>In this episode, we explore the invisible expectations many widows carry after the death of a spouse — the pressure to stay strong, stay productive, appear functional, and somehow navigate profound loss in a way that feels acceptable to both themselves and the outside world.</p><p>W...

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  EPISODE 33: “The Parts of You That Existed With Him” (Identity Loss After the Death of a Spouse — Part 3)

  May 14, 202620 minS1

  <p>In this final episode of the identity loss series, we explore one of the most tender and complicated parts of grief after the death of a partner:</p><p>The experience of feeling like certain parts of you only existed because they did… while also slowly realizing that there are still parts of you that remain.</p><p>This conversation moves into the layered complexity of relational identity, nervous system connection, emotional safety, and the internal conflict many widows experience when they begin noticing themselves still “here” after profound loss.</p><p>Together, we unpack:</p> Why certain relationships bring s...

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  BONUS EPISODE: Mother's Day In The After

  May 10, 202617 minS0

  <p>Mother’s Day after the death of a spouse is not a simple day.</p><p>It is layered.<br/>It is emotional.<br/>It is often holding multiple truths at once.</p><p>In this bonus episode, we talk about what it actually means to move through Mother’s Day as a widow and a mother — where love and grief are not separate experiences, but happening side by side.</p><p>We explore:</p> The emotional complexity of Mother’s Day after loss  Why this day can feel both tender and heavy at the same time  The missing presence of t...

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