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Syncopated Grief

October 15, 2019 by Emma Pearson Leave a Comment

Today is one of those exquisitely beautiful, bright autumn days. With temperatures that would feel “just right” on a mid-summer’s day, but with the added benefit of a gentle breeze to doubly kiss my bare skin as I sit now, in the garden, writing this piece. I have been out on a “long run”. The kind of “long run” I do in the run-up to…

Filed Under: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses, Miscellaneous Tagged With: pain, friendship, questions, Child Loss, friends, multiple losses, widowed questioning

Through an Unthinkable Fire

July 1, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Last Thursday, all of my closest friends flew in from around the country for our annual trip to see each other. Since 2012, when Drew died, we have been making it a point to come from far and wide to spend a weekend together celebrating his life and our friendships. We call it Drewfest, and this year was our sixth year. It was the first year having…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widow, sarah treanor, loss, grief, support, celebrating, six years, Honoring, friendship, friends, widowed

Losing a Friend

May 11, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

So the book I have been writing about my husband’s death, and life in the aftermath, is finished. It is now in editing, and should be ready for publication for July 13th. One of the sections in the book is called “Words About Don”, where I asked a handful of his close friends and family to write up a few words/couple of paragraphs or so, about a…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: love and loss, friendship, crying, sadness, widowed sadness, friends, loss, writing

Death and Friendships (not)

August 17, 2016 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

The fact that a decades old friendship is dead in the water and it doesn’t bother me says to me that it’s been floating belly up for some time, and I just never really noticed. Friendships die for various reasons; it can be something small that suddenly becomes a catalyst, or it can be something big and you just can’t ignore it. I guess what…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: travel trailer, ignorance, driving America, widow, grief, friendship, endings

Life’s Surprises

July 7, 2016 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

Yesterday I accompanied some friends to what I thought was going to be a Fourth of July party at the beach here in Kona. When I arrived, the host, dressed in white with a beautiful lei, handed me a program…we were actually there for a surprise wedding! A few people, it turns out, had known, but I had no idea. I had only seen my friend with her…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: grief, weddings, friendship, relationships, Marriage, stephanie vendrell, young widow, Travel, moving, family, widowed

Remembering as we Live On

June 26, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This week Mike, Shelby and I are in Texas. It’s the first trip we are taking down to my home state together since I moved. We have spent the weekend with all of my oldest and best friends, having our annual camping trip. It’s a trip we’ve done ever since Drew died… and this is the first year that everyone has been able to make it. These…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widow, sarah treanor, loss, grief, living on, death, friendship, making new memories, bittersweet

Never Far

June 9, 2016 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

Death is never far from my mind. That probably resonates with plenty of other widowed people, as well as some who have suffered the passing of someone close to them. This past month, a friend of mine died, far too young. But my mom’s friend died too, which was very sad and perhaps unnecessary given the particular circumstances. Another extended…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: stephanie vendrell, suddenly widowed, young widow, widowed, widow, grief, life, death, friendship

Frozen In Place

May 26, 2016 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

A friend died this week – far too soon. A very dear, sisterly, special person I had known and loved for many years. Our friendship had suffered since Mike died…for a lot of reasons…they are personal and not for public airing. But there is no blame to pass around. Relationships can be complicated. And they can be further complicated when someone…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: grief, Change, friendship, stephanie vendrell, suddenly widowed, young widow, widowed, widow

My Life With Grief

March 31, 2016 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

I write a lot about how strange and even unrecognizable my life is now. I can’t explain exactly how I got here, but I can tell you a little about what it’s like, just over three years after my husband died.   I wake up every morning thinking of Mike. Reminders of him are everywhere in my house, on this island, and in my heart and mind. So in…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Memories, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: memories, family, widowed, widow, friendship, stephanie vendrell, pets, suddenly widowed, grandchildren, stepchildren, young widow, dogs

“It Isn’t Just Me”

March 6, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s less than a week until Mike and I will be flying down to Tampa for Camp Widow. It’s so surreal to think of all that has happened in a year. Life is no less complicated than it ever has been, in fact more so for me. It’s a good complicated, but that doesn’t make it easy. I was talking with another widow friend the other day about this. Like me,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: death, keeping connection, pain, friendship, healing, sharing, living again, widow, helping each other, sarah treanor, letting go, loss, 4 years, grief, love after death

Monkeying Around

February 11, 2016 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

In the Chinese zodiac, Mike was a snake. He was born in 1953 which was the water snake. Each animal has five elements, so being that the animals recur every 12 years, if you multiply that by the five elements, the exact animal under which you were born doesn’t reappear again until you are 60.   Mike’s full-cycle water snake began February 9,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: friendship, stephanie vendrell, suddenly widowed, young widow, Travel, widowed, widow

The Road to Forgiveness

October 9, 2015 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

The face of grief is always changing. Grief never ends – it just shifts and changes, over and over and over again. The past few months, my grief tsunami has turned into something very different than ever before. I almost want to call it “profound”, but that sounds too pompous. I do feel as if this past year or so, I have been able to dig deeper…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Miscellaneous Tagged With: lessons, changes in grief, anger, signs from my husband, grief therapist, growth, friendship, Signs, resentment, letting go, young widow, forgiveness, widow, Brene Brown, kelley lynn, shifts

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