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A Beginning in the End

Posted on: March 1, 2014 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

A lot of us talk about various times during this horrible journey where a shift begins to happen. It’s nothing concrete or tangible, it may not even be something we can easily define… all we know is that something has changed in us and the way we view what has happened to us. That is the shift.Since the new year began, I’ve been feeling as…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed Suddenly

Signs of Flight

Posted on: February 9, 2014 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

Since Drew was a helicopter pilot, helicopters and anything to do with flying are always the biggest signs I get from him. I even found a tiny toy helicopter in this shack on the island of Barbados last spring while vacationing there with his family. It had washed up on the beach and the guy collected it to sell in his shop. No joke!And just a few…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Miscellaneous

To Be Changed

Posted on: February 2, 2014 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

Last night just before going to bed, for some reason I felt called to go back through some really old journal entries from the years leading up to when I met Drew. I don’t always pay attention to those little cues, but last night for whatever reason I did.   I smiled to read some of the entries about our first days together… about how safe and…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

Journaling through the Emotions

Posted on: January 26, 2014 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

I’ve been going back over a lot of my old journal entries lately and picked one out to share a part of. For some years now I have been doing this inner-child dialogue technique… Basically having a conversation with that deepest, most vulnerable (and sometimes most wounded) part of myself by asking her questions and allowing her to share until I…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Suddenly

Capturing our Stories

Posted on: January 19, 2014 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

Today I read a beautiful article that really got me thinking. During a commercial photo shoot for a show on the Oprah Network – near the end of the shoot – one of the actors requested the photographer to take a few more shots for him. As he stepped back onto the backdrop, the actor began to sob. The photographer captured about a dozen or so shots…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed and Healing

The Blindside

Posted on: January 12, 2014 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

I’ve been in a clay workshop for the past few days, and its mostly been a heck of a lotta fun. Each say we have worked with a different teacher, making sculptures, dinnerware, decorated tiles, and learning alternative techniques for firing clay (examples in the picture above!) It’s been a whirlwind of new and exciting creative ideas for me,…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Emotions

Turning Pain into Love

Posted on: January 5, 2014 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

In 2012, when his death was so fresh, I needed to talk. About the pain, the fear, the agony, the anger, the loss, the accident, the future we will not have, the children we won’t raise, the wedding we won’t share… all of it. I wanted to crawl out of my skin with all the pain. I talked and cried almost every single day to someone about my pain. I…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Without Children, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community

Taking Chances on Life

Posted on: December 29, 2013 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

I’ve had a particularly hard couple of weeks lately. Not only has there been Christmas and the 18 month mark since he died, but throw in a trip to Dallas where we lived together, his younger brother graduating from college, my idiotic attempt to start a pretty strict new diet and workout regimen (beginning a week before Thanksgiving, really…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

I Knew When….

Posted on: December 22, 2013 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

I knew when I decided to love you   fully, with all of my cells   that I was risking everything.   I knew you were human   and that you might die   younger than either of us wanted.   Despite this,   I still chose to love all of you   with all of me.  Because you deserved that   and because I did too.   And though you did die –  …

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Suddenly

Where We’re Going

Posted on: December 15, 2013 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

He died on a Tuesday. I can still remember screaming those animal sounds into the phone, tones I’d never heard come out of myself. Deep, guttural defiances… yelled at his dad on the other end of the line – every cell of me rejecting the words from his broken voice, “No baby, he’s not okay…” The room is spinning. I remember flashes only. I…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions

Where We Began

Posted on: December 8, 2013 | Posted by: Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker

A big hello to everyone here at Soaring Spirits and Widow’s Voice on my debut post. I’m incredibly honored and humbled to have been asked to join this team. I hope that we can help each other to feel heard, honored, and loved for exactly where we are in these years of tears. I’ve been a writer all my life in some form, but this is the first time…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed & Unmarried, Widowed Suddenly

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