Losing a spouse is devastating, but for widowers, the journey through grief often feels isolated and uncharted. Are you a widower searching for a roadmap? Wondering how to navigate the overwhelming emotional and practical challenges, especially during the holidays? In this exclusive conversation, we sit down with Herb Knoll, a widower, author, and founder of the Widowers Support Network, who spent seven years researching and developing the definitive guide for men coping with loss. Herb cuts through the silence and shares: A FREE 15-Step Action Plan to manage grief and recovery. The critical reasons why men need their own space to heal. Essential advice on health, dating, and avoiding common pitfalls after loss. Insights from his acclaimed book, “The Widower’s Journey,” and his international support network of over 3,000 men. Stop feeling lost. This conversation offers practical steps, a powerful community, and the encouragement you need to move forward. Tune in now to get your action plan and start your journey toward healing. I am sharing my experience of loving the same man for 32 years, a mother to two adult children, a retired military officer, a breast cancer survivor, and my connections with others.   Anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts should reach out to a suicide hotline or local emergency number in their country: Psychology Today Suicide Hotlines and Prevention Resources Around the World. — Watch the episode here   Listen to the podcast here     A Widower’s Guide To Grief And Recovery With Herb Knoll The Voices Of Widowhood What if you could have fifteen steps on how to deal with grief for widowers? What if widowers had an action plan on how to manage their grief? This conversation with Herb is going to provide you exactly that. Herb is willing to share this with you for free. Herb is a widower. He knows how hard this journey is. In fact, he’s going to share a book that he’s written about the widower’s journey that he invested seven years of research into. There are more details. I want you to hear it all. Let’s get into this conversation now.       Herb, welcome to the Widowhood. Thank you and congratulations on your many successes. Thank you. When you think of Welcome to the Widowhood, what are your thoughts come to mind? I like encouraging men who need it, and your work is very good and goes in that direction. I’m happy to participate and contribute in any way I can. Thank you so much. I especially want to thank you for participating in this holiday mini-series, Voices of Widowhood Healing Through the Holidays. I am especially glad that we can have this conversation focusing more on our widowers and giving them a conversation about them. As we go into this conversation, can you share what brought you into this work of serving men in widowers? Impetus For Serving Widowed Men The year was 2008. My wife passed away after surviving pancreatic cancer for 39 months. She was 52 years old. I was a banker living in San Antonio, Texas. One of my staff members came up to me, a young girl, and she said, “The entire floor misses your laughter.” I realized for the first time that I wasn’t in very good shape. I decided to seek help. I went to my church, and I went to the VA because I’m a disabled veteran. I went to Barnes and Noble, and I walked into Barnes and Noble, and I asked the young man behind the counter, “What do you have for a new widower?” He looked on his search engine, and then he looked up at me, and he said, “Mr., I don’t have a thing for you.” We went to the bookcase just to be sure that there was not a title that was there that he missed. We found fifteen books, each of them written for widows and not one written for men. I knew before I left the Barnes and Noble store that I was about to quit my job. After 38 years in banking and having a very high post, I walked away from it, and I rededicated my life to helping widowed men. What I needed to do was I didn’t know anything about widowed men. I’m a new one myself. I found 40 widowed men, and I asked them for permission to track their lives. I did so for seven years. Most books are written for the immediate impact of becoming a widow, but I wanted to know both the long-term and short-term impact. That’s why I went seven years, and my volunteer men used to tease me, saying, “Are you ever going to publish this book?” I published it, and it was released in 2017, and it’s still a hot book on Amazon.com. What is your book called? What is the title? The Widower’s Journey. Literally seven seven-year journey, for real. Creating The Widower Support Network & Men-Only Space You see the pictures of the 40 men in here and their volunteer contributions. It’s the best thing that I’ve ever done. That’s what I claim. After that, I created the Widowers Support Network, which is a website and also a Facebook page. The Facebook page is only for men. Say it again. It’s only for whom? For men, not women. I don’t let women on it. I created one Facebook page, and all I was getting were women. I had to create a second one. This time I started screening everybody whom I admitted to it. It has about 3000 men living in 44 countries. It’s a terrific resource for widowed men. They’re of all ages. They’re even in their twenties, some men who were widowed, where the wife may have lost a baby and died in childbirth. One woman died in a motorcycle accident. One woman was murdered. There are all the different circumstances. There, when men realize that they’re not being listened to by women, they will open up.