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Expectations

Meeting Myself Where I Am

April 22, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’ve been thinking the past few days about Kelley’s Friday post. She talked about how people treat us when widowed, and the frustrations of often being treated like a five year old or misunderstood in some way. Or how people begin to act differently again once you find new love. That one I can definitely attest to. I wrote to her, saying how it…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: living on, new love, photography, Expectations, 5+ years, artist, expressing grief, sarah treanor, loss, grief

When You Least Expect It

October 3, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

So much of our lives are built upon expectations.  We plan our higher education based on the expectation that we can have a career doing what we love.  We raise children on the expectation that they will succeed even beyond what we ourselves as parents have achieved.  We marry, with the expectation that our partner will be there by our side…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Tragedy, widower, Mike Welker, life, Sudden Loss, Mourning, Expectations, Las Vegas, Shooting, Concert, Present

Needing the Deads’ Voice

January 24, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Just two weeks ago, I wrote of a friend that was, at the time, fighting for her life in the ICU, hoping for a lung transplant.  She was on death’s door, and no one could guess if she would make it another week, waiting for a donor.  I am happy to say, that, as of yesterday, she received her transplant.  A call came in late in the night on…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Luck, Expectations, Flashbacks, Channeling the Dead, widower, Long Term Illness, hope, Mike Welker, triggers, Surgery

Live New Today

January 1, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Here we are. A new year. I woke up feeling weird about that. I think mostly I am annoyed. Annoyed by all the expectation that society holds for everyone to have this wonderful sense of hope for what’s to come on this day. Annoyed that every widowed person out there has to deal with the weight of that expectation as they manage to crawl across…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: grief, celebrating, death, Expectations, bereavement, New Year's, living new, widow, sarah treanor, loss

Hope and Reality

December 6, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

As I wrote last week, I had made plans to go to a place called the Dolly Sods wilderness for a weekend of backpacking.  I’d been planning for months, to return to this place that I was so familiar and comfortable with.  A place that felt like home to me.  As fate would have it, a fire ban was instituted in the area, which quickly put this trip…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, hope, Mike Welker, Nature, Hiking, Expectations, reality, determination, Disappointment

Ticking Clock

October 29, 2016 by Kaiti Wallace Leave a Comment

I vividly remember logging onto Facebook and staring at his messenger icon hoping he would come online. That it was all a misunderstanding and it wasn’t real. Last active… The hours ticked over into days, then into weeks. Now it has almost been 11 months. Remembering it as though it were yesterday. Today I still feel the longing, waiting and…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: emotions, longing, widow with children, young widow, widow, grief, future, guilt, happiness, Expectations, healing

Reminders from Grief

March 13, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Things are coming to a close here in Tampa this morning. We expected it to feel exciting to return back here a year later… except this time, so many things have gone wrong. The pool at the hotel has been closed, creating some difficulty to finding quiet places to talk with fellow widows. On Friday, we looked at the time wrong and missed the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Expectations, annoyances, little things, camp widow, widow, sarah treanor

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