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From Grief to Growth.
From Widow to Leader.

Carolyn Moor is a widow advocate, mentor, author, and speaker who helps widowed women rebuild with resilience, purpose, and the confidence to lead—drawing on 15+ years of building the global movement for widow care, while elevating women's health for all.

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Long before there was a hashtag for it, I was doing the work. In 2000, I became a widow — and in the years that followed, I couldn't find a single community that treated widowhood as anything other than something to quietly get through. So I built one myself.


In 2011, that became Modern Widows Club® — in 2024, The Movement for Widow Care® — grown not from trends but from fifteen years of lived experience, research, and a framework thousands of widows have walked through: Hope • Heal • Grow • Lead®.

I'm not here to tell you grief or growth has a formula. I'm here to show you it can lead somewhere — and I'd love to walk that next part of the path with you.

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MY JOURNEY TO THE MOVEMENT FOR WIDOW CARE

Over 15 Years of Building Support Systems for Widows That Actually Work

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The Ways We Can Work Together

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Speaking

Bring Carolyn's story and frameworks to your stage, organization, or audience.

Mentoring

Carolyn's 6-month virtual mentoring program, PIVOT, guides widows in a small group into leadership and meaningful personal purpose. The next cohort opens in winter 2027.

Author

Carolyn has written four books for widows, by a widow: Daily Wisdom & Empowerment for Widows: 365 Day Devotional, 31 Heartfelt Prayers for Widows: A Month of Comfort, Strength, and Hope, Legendary Widows: Stories of Legacy, and Inspire, Connect, Lead: Empowering Your Widow Mentoring & Leadership Gifts. Carolyn is currently working on a fifth book and memoir.

Podcast Host

Listen to the Healthy Widow Healthy Woman podcast, where each episode features heartfelt conversations, expert interviews, and personal stories that address the complexities of widowhood. Tune in on Apple Music, Spotify, and the Widow Life app.

Widow Advocate

Step into Modern Widows Club®, where the Hope • Heal • Grow • Lead® pathway turns grief into purposeful leadership over your life and inspiring others.

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Meet Carolyn
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I've spent 26 years learning what actually works — not in theory, but in the middle of real life. I raised two daughters as a widow. I built a successful interior design firm.

I built Modern Widows Club® | The Movement for Widow Care® from my living room into a global movement, all while still managing the everyday work of running a home and guarding my own health along the way.

That's where my frameworks come from: not a single credential, but decades of lived, practical experience across the full range of what a woman's life actually holds. Today I'm honored to serve on New York Life Foundation's national Bereavement Support Advisory Council, and to walk alongside widows everywhere who are ready to lead.

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  • "PIVOT helped me find healthy ways to grieve, manage my finances, and open my heart to a new relationship. I have since remarried, and I still lean on these skills and the friendships I made. I highly recommend PIVOT to widows at any stage. Life doesn’t have to stop with the death of our loved one."

    –KELLI L., BSN, RN

  • “I admire Carolyn Moor so much for her advocacy. I'm starting to 'get it.' It's a gross oversight that our governments give so little support to women in life-changing situations.”

    BETTY C.

  • "PIVOT gave me the support and resources to find my new self after my husband passed away. Instead of asking ‘What happens now?’ I realized there was a future for me. It taught me to care for myself physically, mentally, and spiritually, and gave me the confidence and clarity to step into a future I didn’t ask for. Thank you, Carolyn and MWC!"

    –ROSE P.

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