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Their Best Selves in Us

October 28, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I found this quote last week and it has really stuck in my mind. I feel like I’ve tried so hard just to find myself again since he died that maybe I’ve lost sight of this a little. Continuing on has a way of doing that I guess. When he first died, I was so aware of this idea. The man died for his dreams… literally. He was in a helicopter…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: loss, honoring loved ones, grief, mindfulness, lessons, coping, remembering, living on, widowed, finding humor, widow, inspiring quote, sarah treanor

Into the Fall

September 9, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Yesterday was the first day of the year to bring in an autumn cold snap here in Northeast Ohio, along with the remnants of the tropical storm that came through Florida last week. Since I woke yesterday, it’s been a slow, steady dripping rain… the kind where you can still open all the windows and feel the brisk air and hear the gentle drops on…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widowed lessons, Looking Back, death, fall, seasons, widow, Autumn, sarah treanor, loss, grief, Change, six years

Listen to their Hearts

July 8, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I think I’ve always been interested in the ways that people celebrate or carry on the memory of a loved one throughout their lives. Something last time got me thinking again about this topic. Around this time last year, my new partner Mike took me to see Tom Petty on what ended up being his final tour. It’s not as though I knew this musician…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: sarah treanor, loss, grief, living on, celebrating, Honoring, keeping memory alive, finding the positives

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: Honoring, friendship, friends, widowed, widow, sarah treanor, loss, grief, support, celebrating, six years

Meeting in Dreams

May 20, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This past week, I had a pretty crazy dream. It’s the first time of this sort that I have ever had. As many of you know, our Tuesday writer, Mike, is my boyfriend. He lost his wife, Megan, in 2014 to Cystic Fibrosis and I lost my fiance, Drew, in 2012 in a crash. We’ve been dating now a few years, and still nothing like this dream has showed up…

Filed Under: Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: grief, Honoring, motherhood, dreams, meeting, sarah treanor, loss

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: widowed sadness, friends, loss, writing, love and loss, friendship, crying, sadness

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: sarah treanor, loss, grief, living on, new love, photography, Expectations, 5+ years, artist, expressing grief

Fearing More Loss

April 15, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Death has been on my mind a lot the past week, and I don’t even know why. There haven’t been any major milestones or triggers. No birthdays of people who are dead. No death anniversaries. No real explanation, yet I’ve been unable to shake these shadowy figures in my mind. The haunting things I know will one day happen to more people I love.

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: new loss, sarah treanor, loss, grief, triggers, what if, fear

Sleepless Nights

April 8, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I don’t have them very often, but last night was a pretty sleepless night. My mind was going. I couldn’t seem to quiet it. Usually I can put on a podcast and be out in ten minutes… but every now and then I find myself listening to an entire podcast, and then another, barely managing to doze off at all… Even though nowadays, my sleep is…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions Tagged With: sarah treanor, loss, grief, tired, sleep, nighttime

In a Frozen World

March 25, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

My fiance died in 2012. In the spring of 2014, I began creating a photographic series about my grief, called “Still, Life”… sharing weekly self portraits that captured my pain, hope, confusion, anger and everything else that comes along with grief. I worked on this series for about a year, creating 40 haunting, hopeful, honest images… with each…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: art therapy, frozen, sarah treanor, loss, grief, winter, photo, self portrait, photographs of grief, creative expression

The Colors of Love

March 18, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I was talking with a friend the other day about new love after being widowed and it got me reflecting on the idea. I ended up describing to her how my fiance and my now boyfriend are like two different colors of love. I really liked this idea the more I thought about it… There is no color in the spectrum that is better or worse, more or less,…

Filed Under: Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: loving again, sarah treanor, loss, grief, new love, love after loss, colors

New Directions Fueled by the Past

March 4, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Today an exciting milestone has happened for me. One that runs deep, and is stitched with so many remnants of a past life and of every day since that I’ve fought for. Today I was accepted to be a contributor for a major photography agency that works in the book publishing industry. They work with publishing houses all over the world to help them…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: milestones, sarah treanor, loss, grief, mindfulness, Change, choices

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