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mindfulness

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: remembering, living on, widowed, finding humor, widow, inspiring quote, sarah treanor, loss, honoring loved ones, grief, mindfulness, lessons, coping

A Mindful Conversation

March 6, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s been far too long since I felt the sting of an icy wind hitting my face.  Months have passed since I lazily stared into a campfire of my own creation, with nobody but my own self to discuss it with.  I haven’t dunked into a mountain creek after a long march, and I haven’t been woken up by annoying crows, rather than an annoying alarm…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Therapy, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Long Term Illness, therapy, Mike Welker, mindfulness, Nature, Avoidance, pessimism, widower

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

Go, Go, Go

October 17, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

In the past 30 days, we’ve had a birthday party/ family reunion, visits with friends, Sarah’s sister in town for a few days, Shelby’s best friend at the house after school for five days, a fall festival, halloween costume prep and decorations, dress fittings, tuxedo fittings, counseling appointments, extremely busy days at my work, extremely…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, Stress, Mike Welker, mindfulness, life, writing, busy, Self-awareness, Pace

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: connection, mindful, sarah treanor, loss, grief, mindfulness, healing, yoga, meditation, spiritual

New Paths to Mindfulness

June 9, 2015 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Had you asked me a few months ago what the best way for me to cope with losing Megan was, I would have immediately told you it was being out in nature.  There was no alternative for me.  I needed to be in the woods, away from people and cell phone service.  Someplace I could be quiet and think.  It was a meditative place of my own, that I never…

Filed Under: Widowed, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, mindfulness, meditation, labyrinth, new ideas, cynicism

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