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Home & The Heart

March 11, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’ve written about it quite a few times these past few years, but moving across the country really did a number on me. I don’t think – scratch that – I KNOW I was in no way prepared for how difficult it would be to leave Texas. I have a love affair with my state that runs very deep. I have gone through some of the hardest but most meaningful…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: moving, sarah treanor, grief, Change, healing, trauma, homesick, adjusting

Finding Myself Somewhere New

October 15, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Mindfulness has always been something important to me, in one way or another. Usually, art and creativity have been my way of being mindful – my form of meditation. In the first few years after Drew’s death, I created deeply mindful photographs which helped me reach that meditative space. I don’t think I knew it at the time, but they created a…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: mindful, sarah treanor, loss, grief, mindfulness, healing, yoga, meditation, spiritual, connection

Life Getting in the Way

July 18, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s not exactly a secret that sometimes, I just can’t foresee a good subject for my weekly writings here.  I’ll pine over ideas to see if they spark something, thinking about if there were any milestones, anniversaries, or triggers in the past week.  More often than not, I’ll find a nugget of something and expand upon it, and sometimes,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: moving forward, happiness, healing, Survivor, widower, sadness, Mike Welker, widower with children, grief, life, guilt

Mother’s Day – A Year in Review

May 16, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

(So, I wrote this last year on Mother’s Day.  I tried and tried to write this week, and the more i did so, the more it read just like the below.  So instead, I’ve decided to re-post it, with an update on what has changed, a year later.  A year further from losing Megan, and another year growing with Sarah. I’ve underlined in parenthesis my…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: sarah treanor, Mike Welker, widower with children, changes, time, healing, Mother Day, Year, widower

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: widow with children, young widow, widow, grief, future, guilt, happiness, Expectations, healing, emotions, longing

Stepping out of the Vacuum

September 30, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Hi all, I’m filling in for Kelley today since she is at Camp Widow Toronto. She’ll be back with us next week! Until then, I’m sitting down to write who-knows-what to you, on the fly. I suppose the first thing that comes to mind right now is community. It’s been on my mind all morning. Not only am I missing Camp Widow Toronto, and all the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community Tagged With: grief, support, healing, belonging, reaching out, finding your people, widow, sarah treanor, community, loss

Dew Drops and Sunshine

September 17, 2016 by Kaiti Wallace Leave a Comment

This week I have been filled with and unexpected strength, I have still cried almost every day but I feel strong within myself for the first time in a long time. I’ve struggled with insomnia since December. Generally waking two or three times a night. It probably doesn’t help that I don’t usually go to be till around 11 and with continuous…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: young widow, Encouragement, memories, widow, hope, growth, strength, Live Life, Positivity, healing, inspiration, Motivation

My Happiness List

August 27, 2016 by Kaiti Wallace Leave a Comment

Over the weekend I attended John’s son’s swimming lesson. He jumped off the diving board for the first time. Every first brings with it pride for my children along with the inevitable thought, John is missing out or we are missing out on experiencing this first with him. Whichever way you look at it, it’s unfair that he is not here. I left…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: grief, anger, happiness, challenges, strength, Positivity, healing, young widow, suddenly widowed, widow, widow with children, Courage, New Start, loss

The Winds of You

June 19, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This past week, I dug up all my old journals from boxes and drawers to photograph for my grief e-course I am building. In the course, we will spend a week writing about our grief, and so I decided to go back through my own journals to look for examples of some of the raw emotions I have captured since this journey began.  One of the things we talk…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: loss, grief, death, Nature, healing, trauma, poetry, bereavement, widow, writing poems, sarah treanor, written, metaphor, words on grief

Rebuilding Together

June 17, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Our awesome Friday writer, Kelley Lynn, is having some technical difficulties today while attending Camp Widow West, so she’s asked me to write something in her place. I didn’t hesitate to help her out, even though I have other work to be writing on this morning that I’m actually a bit behind schedule on! Now, this got me thinking about the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: trauma, bereavement, benefits of hard times, adversity, widow, sarah treanor, loss, grief, death, growth, healing

I’m Not Made of Stone

June 7, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Two years ago today, Megan was admitted to the hospital for the final time.  Her rejection had already been diagnosed months before, and she was heading in for a yet another check-up and round of tests.  Her dad was going to take her to the appointment, I was going to head to work, and she would be back in the evening.   I carried her to the car…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Asking for assistance, widower, Long Term Illness, Mike Welker, help, healing, self reflection

Passion from Pain

April 10, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

In just 3 days my fundraiser for the Meaningful Making e-course will be complete. In the past month and a half, I have raised over double my goal to begin work on making this online workshop. It will be geared towards those grieving, with the premise that students will use a combination of creative acts and storytelling in order to express their…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: tools, healing, trying new things, ecourse, helping others, workshop, widow, meaningful making, sarah treanor, new passion, loss, grief, death

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