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Excuses

Damned Either Way

October 20, 2018 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

So I missed a week. I didn’t have a blog post for last week and I felt bad like I had let a bunch of people down in some way. I mean, I know it is a voluntary thing but I don’t like missing deadlines and I don’t like making an excuse. I create pressure that doesn’t exist. The sink is full of dishes. The carpet hasn’t been vacuumed. I…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, LGBTQ+ Widowed Tagged With: LGBTQ Widowed, bryan martin, widowed questioning, expressions of grief, Excuses

Going Postal

May 9, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s been cold, rainy, and just plain miserable for the past two weeks.  The brief respite prior to our Texas trip, where it was summerlike for a few days did nothing but remind me that May in Ohio is fickle.  You can be sitting outside, sipping a cold beer in the sun one day, and the next, you’re protecting plants from frost and bundling up…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: Avoidance, Outdoors, Silver Lining, Weather, widower, Mike Welker, widower with children, Excuses, Nature, Hiking, Work

Flipping the Switch

March 21, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Way back when I started writing here for Soaring Spirits, I had posited a statement that when “my switch flips from suffering to determination, it is simply not possible to feel more powerful”.  At the time, that was related precisely to losing Megan, and wading through the grief until I finally got up off of the couch, wiped the snot off of…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: grief, Excuses, Hiking, perspective, determination, Initiative, widower, Mike Welker, widower with children, loss

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