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Their Best Selves in Us

October 28, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I found this quote last week and it has really stuck in my mind. I feel like I’ve tried so hard just to find myself again since he died that maybe I’ve lost sight of this a little. Continuing on has a way of doing that I guess. When he first died, I was so aware of this idea. The man died for his dreams… literally. He was in a helicopter…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: living on, widowed, finding humor, widow, inspiring quote, sarah treanor, loss, honoring loved ones, grief, mindfulness, lessons, coping, remembering

Remembering to Live

October 14, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Everyone has a favorite holiday. Mine is Halloween. I decorate the house inside and out. I spend tireless hours on costumes. I await my first haunted house of the season with eager anticipation. I’ve always liked this holiday, but it wasn’t until after Drew died that it became something I appreciated more deeply. Just 4 months after he died, my…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays Tagged With: halloween, traditions, finding joy again, haunted house, embracing humor, sarah treanor, Holidays, coping

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: loss, grief, coping, new traditions, Christmas, creating tradition, sarah treanor, Holidays

Revisiting the “First” Thanksgiving

November 19, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Since coming back from Camp Widow Toronto, the upcoming holiday season has been on my mind a lot. I met so many new widows in Toronto. So many who are enduring the horror of their first holiday season without their person this year. As I sat down this morning to write, I began thinking, just what could I share that might resonate with anyone out…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: sarah treanor, Thanksgiving, Holidays, loss, grief, coping, making it through, first, milestones, widow

The Question to Ask our Pain

September 24, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Five years ago this week, I turned 30. My fiance had died just 3 months before, suddenly, and I was a field of shrapnel spread out for miles upon miles. That week five years ago, I decided not to give up my 30th birthday. I decided instead to honor it, because I would only turn 30 one time and I still deserved honoring. With that, Drew’s mom and…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: life lessons, spirituality, shift, sarah treanor, doubt, struggle, love, coping, Change, soul, questions, faith

Fear & Appreciation

September 10, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

For whatever reason, today, I have this fear that something horrible is going to happen, or that something horrible IS happening that I don’t know about. It may be all the horrible stuff going on with hurricanes and now earthquakes… the edginess that all of that upheaval in so many people’s lives. The anxiety that I had just a few weeks ago…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: fear, new loss, appreciating today, sarah treanor, loss, grief, coping

Grief Lessons in Nature

July 16, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This past week, in between various errands and chores and work tasks, I took an hour or so to go for a walk at one of my favorite hiking trails nearby. It’s been on my mind ever since, for a few reasons. I don’t really take time to myself out in nature anymore like I used to. Life is so much busier now and there just never seems to be time.

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: Nature, learning, writer, widow, sarah treanor, wisdom, grief, lessons, coping

Coping on the Hard Days

May 13, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s Saturday night as I write to you all. Today started out rough. The anticipation of Mother’s Day looming always gets to me. It’s no surprise – I’ve been dealing with some of the triggers of this holiday for over 20 years since I lost my mom young. But there are more layers these days, leaving it even tougher at times to navigate. Thoughts…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: grief, coping, taking a break, rest, relax, hard days, widow, sarah treanor

Dealing with Resentment

April 16, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I think grief is an even trickier thing as time goes on. It becomes more infused with your new life and sometimes it’s hard to even know when struggles are related to your grief or to other things. I’ll be honest, I think I’m still holding on to some resentment that this other life I wanted to have will never happen. Even if 99% of me wants…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: grief, coping, death, perspective, resentment, sharing emotions, widow, sarah treanor, loss

Day Of Birth

October 8, 2016 by Kaiti Wallace Leave a Comment

Day of birth. A day to celebrate life, at least it use to be. The person I was prior to grief made a big fuss over birthdays. Now I only wish I could fast forward past the day all together. Escape the impending date somehow. He would have turned 30.   I would have thrown a surprise party, filling our home with orange helium balloons, but more than…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: Numb, anxiety, memories, widowed, widow, birthday, loss, grief, coping, widowed with children, anger, young widow

I Don’t Want it Today.

August 7, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I hit a wall yesterday. Majorly. It was the first time in a long time that I’ve gotten serious anxiety to the point that I could barely hold it together. In fact, the last time I can remember having this feeling was that rainy night – which I wrote about here – when Mike and I drove the moving truck across the Texas state line on our way to…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: loss, grief, coping, death, bereavement, overwhelm, overstressed, anxiety, wall, widow, heaviness, sarah treanor, too much, Stress

Into the Woods

December 19, 2015 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

 Patience. I’m trying  my hardest to have some lately… with myself, with change, with pain. It’s easier said than done. I am beginning to realize that it is going to take a lot longer to adjust to moving somewhere so far away than I’d imagined. Especially while carrying my grief on my back wherever I go. No matter how much good there is…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: escaping to nature, discovering, new self, widow, sarah treanor, struggle, coping, new life, questions, backpacking, new changes

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