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Makeshift Plan

September 24, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

I do not have it figured out yet.  But, day by day I am getting closer to finding my way back to life.  I have created a makeshift plan that I’m getting excited about. And, being even mildly excited is reason to celebrate because for nearly two years I’ve been completely underwhelmed by my life. I know that my new life will be very different…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing Tagged With: StaciSulin, changes, future, Change

Into the Fall

September 9, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Yesterday was the first day of the year to bring in an autumn cold snap here in Northeast Ohio, along with the remnants of the tropical storm that came through Florida last week. Since I woke yesterday, it’s been a slow, steady dripping rain… the kind where you can still open all the windows and feel the brisk air and hear the gentle drops on…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: loss, grief, Change, six years, widowed lessons, Looking Back, death, fall, seasons, widow, Autumn, sarah treanor

The New Stove

June 3, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Every now and then something seemingly ordinary happens in our widow lives that has so much more meaning. Something that other people would really not think anything of. I had one of these a few weeks ago, when the glass top on our stove cracked. This was a stove that my new person, Mike, and his late-wife, Megan, had in their house for a decade. A…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: new, milestones, sarah treanor, grief, finding joy again, Change

Ink to Remember

April 29, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’m writing you all on my phone, in the back room of a tattoo shop in Cleveland. An odd place to write from, and no, I’m not the one getting the tattoo… but my sister is. Her first. My nephew, her son, is apprenticing as a tattoo artist and is doing hers. This is in so many ways so very cool. Getting to be here for it and watch is something I’m…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: memorial, sarah treanor, Change, tattoo

Come Undone

March 12, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

Most of the time I feel empty inside.  The landscape of my Soul is barren since he died.  However, most people can only see the vibrant life I have.  At first glance, my life appears fairly enviable.  With the exception of Mike’s death, I have all the trappings of a good life.  I have the kids, the house, the car, and the career.  I have…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing Tagged With: changes, Change, New Normal, StaciSulin

Home & The Heart

March 11, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’ve written about it quite a few times these past few years, but moving across the country really did a number on me. I don’t think – scratch that – I KNOW I was in no way prepared for how difficult it would be to leave Texas. I have a love affair with my state that runs very deep. I have gone through some of the hardest but most meaningful…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: homesick, adjusting, moving, sarah treanor, grief, Change, healing, trauma

New Directions Fueled by the Past

March 4, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Today an exciting milestone has happened for me. One that runs deep, and is stitched with so many remnants of a past life and of every day since that I’ve fought for. Today I was accepted to be a contributor for a major photography agency that works in the book publishing industry. They work with publishing houses all over the world to help them…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: choices, milestones, sarah treanor, loss, grief, mindfulness, Change

Malbec

February 26, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

Since you died I feel like I am masquerading in someone else’s life.  The likelihood of outliving you was always in the back of my mind, but it wasn’t something that I prepared for because I naively thought we had “the rest of our lives” ahead of us.  I honestly thought that we had at least twenty more years together.  And, because I blindly…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: facade, widowed missing him, StaciSulin, changes, Change, missing him, missing

The Me in the We

February 15, 2018 by Olivia Arnold Leave a Comment

I introduced who I am now last week but that is just a piece of me and really, she’s still kind of new around here. The other part of me is the me before Mike died. She was around for a long time and was very comfortable in her skin. At the time, I truly thought that version of myself was very independent but after he died I quickly realized how…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: young widow, Change, identity, old me, new me

Winds of Change

February 12, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

  Photo source: mapofthenight     Grief takes us to a secluded, dark place.   We hesitate.  We resist settling into this lonely realm.  But, in order to slowly breathe life back into ourselves, We have to temporarily take residence in this muted, mysterious environment,     I resisted this shadowy, hidden place for a long, long time.  I…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: StaciSulin, life, changes, Change, life after loss, Living, honor, windsofchange, privilege

The Dance

January 29, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

When Grief comes, Take her in your arms and dance with her.  Don’t resist.  Fall into her.  Move and sway in time with her.  Hold her carefully. Then, when the music is over, Look her in the eyes and thank her for the dance.   Source: pinterest   Maybe the words are too kitschy.  Maybe this image of Grief is overly sentimental and…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: StaciSulin, grief, changes, Change, dance, dancing

Loving You in Separation

January 22, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

I feel like each breathe I take puts more distance between us.  You are in another place.  A place I don’t know.  A dimension I can’t fully understand because I am still here.  You exist somewhere far from me; yet, somehow you are right here beside me.  You are everywhere; and, also nowhere to be found.  My Soul loves you, forever, for…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing Tagged With: Change, lovinginseparation, soul, loveneverdies, StaciSulin, changes

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