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Christmas

Mixed Up Emotions

December 31, 2019 by Emma Pearson Leave a Comment

I noticed Kelley Lynn put up a couple of lovely questions on her Facebook page in the run-up to Christmas. It went along the lines of:  Tell me, what/who are you missing? And if you’re joyful, then say more about that  It’s Christmas morning, and I am sitting in bed. No rush here, because for over a decade, Mike and I said to our guests,…

Filed Under: Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses Tagged With: widowed mixed emotions, Christmas, Child Loss, multiple losses, widowed holidays

Bah Humbug

December 17, 2019 by Emma Pearson 1 Comment

I am trying to get festive. I really am. But little things tick me off. Like Christmas decorations. Particularly the really garish ones. And the plastic snowmen. The ones in our house are okay. Right now, that’s the sum total of an undecorated Christmas tree. And fairy lights that never actually went down after Christmas 2017. Somehow they have…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Holidays, Multiple Losses Tagged With: Child Loss, widowed, multiple losses, widowed holidays, Holidays, Christmas

All is Calm, All is Bright

December 25, 2017 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

I’ve had many silent nights since Mike died.  Nights where I had nowhere to be.  Nights that I had no one to share with.  Nights where the only sound in the house was the clock ticking obnoxiously.  On these nights, the only place I want to be is back in his arms.  I have endlessly wished to go back.  Back to a place in time where Mike…

Filed Under: Widowed Holidays Tagged With: StaciSulin, Fate, emptiness, Christmas, uncertainty, silent, night, involuntary

Stored Memories

December 21, 2017 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

When I was a kid, Christmases were pure joy and fun. It meant cousins, grandparents, decorations, special dinners, holiday treats, and sometimes, winter fun like snowmen and sledding. It meant no school, warm fires, music sing-a-longs and laughter. Pretty soon I grew up. Christmases were still, for a few years, about family and love and gift…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays Tagged With: memories, Holidays, stephanie vendrell, widowed recreating life, Christmas

Have a Friggin Holly Jolly Christmas

December 19, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

As we near Shelby’s 11th Christmas, what will be our third without Megan around, I’ve got my head down.  I’m powering through this week at work, excited more for the 4 day break from the monotony than any festivities.  Every activity, preparation, and event seems more like a “have to” than a “get to”.  Wrapping gifts, baking…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widower, Stress, Mike Welker, Holidays, traditions, perspective, Christmas

Creating Christmas

December 17, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This year, Christmas has given me a lot to consider. Reminders to give myself ample time to take care of all that needs doing, so I don’t get overwhelmed. To give myself at least 30 minutes each day to myself, to do something that relaxes me, like yoga or taking a walk or drawing, in order to help me stay sane. That daily maintenance has been a…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: sarah treanor, Holidays, loss, grief, coping, new traditions, Christmas, creating tradition

You’re a Mean One…

December 12, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Ahhh yes…the holidays.  It is a constant ride of ups and downs, like the world’s most depressing roller coaster.  Kicking off with Thanksgiving.  Spending time with friends and family, circled around a hearty dinner and laughter, I get to remember that Megan died just a week before that day.  I don’t get to remember the 33 prior enjoyable…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, memories, Mike Welker, widower with children, Holidays, triggers, Music, songs, winter, Christmas, Minefield

I Still Look For Him

December 4, 2017 by Wendy Saint-Onge Leave a Comment

I still look for Ben.  Yes I do.  Not so much in person (although I do that too) but rather, I tend to look for him online.  On the internet. I have read everything that exists online about Ben.  In fact, I wrote most of it. But still I look, as though I’m hoping he might post a new picture or write something in a new guitar forum.  I…

Filed Under: Widowed Holidays Tagged With: wendy saint-onge, Ben The Titan, tree, Surgery, the last post, Christmas, widow stress

Stress

November 20, 2017 by Wendy Saint-Onge Leave a Comment

I have a lot going on right now and I am feeling extremely stressed out.  Life in general is not going well for my youngest daughter, and in order to help her cope I have decided to leave work and stay home with her for her second semester of school this year.  Also, I have just found out that I require surgery on Dec 7th which will take me out…

Filed Under: Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widow christmas, anxiety, Stress, exhaustion, mental exhaustion, Christmas, wendy saint-onge, Ben The Titan

Humbug

December 27, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Without a second thought, I stepped right into the holidays, as I’ve done for all but one year in the last 15 (the year Megan died was a little different).  Just after Thanksgiving, we got our Christmas tree, put up lights on the house, decorated indoors, and as a first, we set up my old model train on the dining table, complete with snow,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Christmas, counseling, grumpy, widower, angry, Celebrations, December, Stress, self reflection, Mike Welker, past person, widower with children, Holidays, Work, winter

Not A Merry Month

December 24, 2016 by Kaiti Wallace Leave a Comment

This time last year I spent wishing my life away, wishing that it was all a mistake. Wishing that people were playing a cruel joke on me. Imagining that this wasn’t my life but that I was living someone else’s life and that the real me was still living a happy and blissful life in love where nothing had changed. Each day was spent running on…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays Tagged With: young widow, memories, widow, Holidays, widowed with children, Christmas

Ghosts of Christmas Yet to Come

December 20, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Just before Christmas, in 2002, Megan and I met.  A few weeks later, and I was already invited to her family’s home for Christmas dinner and gifts.  I was accepted into their clan with open arms, and I’ve been a part of their family ever since.  I’ve been at Christmas dinner in 2005, not long after Megan’s brother died.  I was there in…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Christmas, widower, memories, family, Mike Welker, widower with children, Holidays, changes, perspective, New Beginnings

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