A Proven Path Forward for Christian Widows
Grief recovery with HOPE.
Spirit-led healing with power.
Confident rebuilding with renewed identity & purpose.
If you are a Christian widow and you know — deep down — that there is more ahead than loss, pain and survival…
You are in the right place.
I know that widowhood changes everything:
Your identity. Your faith. Your confidence. Your plans for the future.
You can want to trust God and love Jesus — and still feel spiritually disoriented or disconnected.
You may have tried many grief supports — and still feel stuck in your widowhood.
You can be functioning — and still feel burdened carrying a heavy, invisible weight.
You don’t need more platitudes, more time, or white-knuckling.
You also don't need to widow alone anymore.
You need a real path forward, guided by a widow who has walked it.
That’s why I’m here for you, sister.
Hi, I’m Rachel Powell.
I’m a Christian widow who rebuilt a beautiful life I love again after deep, dark widowhood pain.
I lost my 30-year-old husband by suicide, and was left raising four grieving children. I wrestled with hopelessness; even my own suicide attempt. I walked through spiritual confusion and fought to hear God clearly again.
But I did not stay there, Through the battle, I made healing my #1 job and discovered what actually helped me move forward through the mess of widowhood.
By God's grace and the Holy Spirit's power — and through deep grief work, faith, and intentional rebuilding — I now live with purpose, joy, confidence, and renewed identity.
I am now remarried, blending a family of seven, and living a life I genuinely want.
And following the Lord's clear calling, I now help my Christian widow sisters do the same.
I know what it is to suffer…to the point of losing
all hope.
My life has included:
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Childhood abuse
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Family addictions
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Betrayal
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Raising nieces & nephew as my own, as their Guardian (but without allowance of full adoption)
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Spiritual abuse
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The death of my young husband by suicide
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Financial devastation
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Widowhood & single parenting before & through the pandemic,
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The loss my Nursing career for a time
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Nearly passing by suicide myself
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My own major failures
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The battle for healing and HOPE
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& navigating remarriage & blending of our already complex family with someone from another state
My story involves great tragedy but
my story is not A TRAGEDY.
NEITHER IS YOURS.
Why Hope Speaker Exists
Within the first year of losing my 30 year old husband by suicide, I found myself in the darkest place of my life, and in unbearable pain.
At 3 a.m. I was yet again grieving at the place he died.
I had walked there barefoot (just as he had before passing), the evening before and cried for hours.
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I felt so alone.
I believed I couldn’t keep going anymore, and I had no hope for my life. I had already decided; I was waiting there to die.
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This, in fact, is where our stories meet - yours and mine.
It was as I lay there on the rocks, longing for relief from my pain in the darkness, that the Lord gave me a vision of Hope Speaker.
The vision was of me standing and speaking HOPE and life, to others in the same hopeless place I was.
“You have to keep going,” He told me, “There are many where you are, and there will be many more. You have to keep living. Show them how.”
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You were the reason the Lord gave me to keep going.
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And though it was not the end of my suicidal struggles, and certainly not the end of my fight for HOPE, it saved me that night.
I got up from those rocks, and I walked home.
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Your struggles are just as real. Your pain is just as valid.
Your story, and your life, are just as valuable.
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Let’s journey on together.
COACHING & Evidence-based grief recovery
I help Christian widows go from feeling lost, unhappy and lonely to guided, HOPE-filled and confidently creating a life and future they actually want.
1:1 Coaching can help you get unstuck and have forward, life-giving movement through grief. This isn’t all there is for you - and you don't have to do it alone anymore.
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I also offer The Grief Recovery Method as a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®.
“I had done therapy, read the books, tried to find the support I needed. Coaching with Rachel finally gave me traction. I’m dreaming again.”
-Amy
Fighting Hopelessness
Suicide prevention is integral in our mission. Someone dies by suicide every 11 minutes in the U.S., and every 40 seconds globally, according to 2021 statistics.
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Rachel continues to receive messages that her story and work has saved lives and prevented suicides.
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Your investment in, and sharing of, our lifework here at Hope Speaker enables us to focus on spreading HOPE to those who need it.