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Devolve

January 31, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’m a mess lately.  Around the start of this past holiday season, I began regressing to a point where I am again a cynical, grumpy, and in general, angry person.  It has nothing to do with Sarah, Shelby, work, or even the holidays, really.  It truly does have everything to do with the fact that Megan is no longer here.   It’s not her death,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, Temper, Stress, Evolve, Mike Welker, Devolve, Old Self, anger, Marriage, jealousy, counseling, grumpy, Issues, Unresolved

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: Mike Welker, past person, widower with children, Holidays, Work, winter, Christmas, counseling, grumpy, widower, angry, Celebrations, December, Stress, self reflection

Unresolved

May 17, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I have my share of insecurities, anxiety, and self-esteem issues.  It’s a hell of a paradox for me to admit, on a public blog no less, that I’m insecure, but i need to get it out.  For as long as I had Megan, i was always waiting for the other shoe to drop.  There was a constant self-loathing that I wasn’t good enough to deserve her, or…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: Unresolved Issues, Self-improvement, widower, anxiety, Mike Welker, counseling

This Carrying~

April 6, 2016 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

A dear friend and Air Force widow sister said to me last weekend, in response to my endless questions to her about this grief (she’s 6 years out), and time frames and, oh, you know, everything…she said this to me, and I’ve reflected on it in the days since. It isn’t that it goes away. We just get stronger, and we carry it differently.Such…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: counseling, Odyssey of Love, PinkMagic, EMDR, sugar addiction, therapy, widow, on the road, husband, wings

The Good, Bad, Ugly, and Everything in Between~

March 23, 2016 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

This is a list. Not a gratitude list necessarily, but a list that does include some good shit, nonetheless. And sometimes it’s easier to write in list form than prose form.  This past weekend I had a massive, huge, meltdown/purge/nervous breakdown. Included were earthquake size shakes throughout my body, shallow breathing, sobbing, gut-wrenching…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: husband, wings, counseling, Odyssey of Love, PinkMagic, EMDR, sugar addiction, therapy, widow, on the road

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