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It’s Not Guilt, It’s Sadness

August 10, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

So it’s been 7 years since my beautiful husband left for work one morning, and never came home. Seven years since his shocking and sudden death. Seven years of living this life in the “after” of painful and life-changing loss. It’s a long time, and it isn’t. It’s forever, and it’s also ten seconds. In all of this time living with the death of my…

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July 16, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

I think we all feel “lost” in some way, and sometimes in all ways. But, understand, feeling lost after the person you love dies doesn’t mean you have to lose yourself forever. I know that outliving the person you love isn’t easy.  In truth, it’s easily the hardest thing I’ve ever been forced to do.   I remember many nights I stood in…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing Tagged With: widowhood and moving forward, StaciSulin, future, widowed moving forward, moving forward, option B

Make Your Past

April 17, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

What do I think about on these Tuesday mornings, 3 ½ years after Megan died?  It’s a question that I generally ask myself on the way into work, in preparation for publishing some kind of anecdote, observation, or predicament here on Soaring Spirits, in the hopes that a person will read and experience a “me too” or “oh wow, I never thought…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widower with children, moving forward, perspective, acceptance, widower, memories, Mike Welker

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: Mike Welker, widower with children, grief, life, guilt, moving forward, happiness, healing, Survivor, widower, sadness

Day-to-Day

September 27, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

As has become more and more typical, I find myself sitting down to write, and not having a clear topic on where to focus.  The fact of the matter is, though I miss Megan, her death and absence is not all-consuming.  Far from it, actually.  Trying to spin an anecdote about my day-to-day life into something about grief or loss is exhausting…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: Lack of Grief, emotion, widower, Mike Welker, widower with children, grief, writing, moving forward, Survivor's Guilt

Thanks Death, Now I Have To…

August 21, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This image perfectly sums up my post for today. There are times in our life when our path to somewhere ends, and from that moment on, we have to begin making decisions for another journey. We have to decide to stay on the shore, at the end of that life, or wade out into the unknown and swim toward some unknown future, trusting we will be able to…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: changes, death, moving forward, new life, plan b, transitions, life ended, widow, having to choose, sarah treanor, making new choices, loss, grief

Home-Base

July 19, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Megan and I bought our home in June of 2005.  For nine years, it was “our” home.  I had the outdoor spaces…lawn care, gardening, the garage, and landscaping were all mine to take care of and shape into something I enjoyed.  Megan had the inside.  Knick-knacks and decorations, paint colors, organization, and general decor were hers.    …

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, Mike Welker, widower with children, Home, life, moving forward, parents, in-laws, merging lives

Spinning the Wheel and Moving Forward

July 12, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’ve followed a somewhat standard path in my adult years.  Megan and I met in 2002, married and bought a house in 2005, and had Shelby in 2007.  Notwithstanding her illness and the extra events associated with it, we had followed a fairly “textbook” sequence of events.  We were effectively playing the “Game of Life”, spinning the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: in-laws, compromises, widower, Mike Welker, widower with children, life, moving forward, parents

Changing the Walls

June 5, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Yesterday, we painted a wall. To me, this was no ordinary wall, this was the last major wall in the downstairs of Mike’s house to change since Megan died. Now, when you look through the living room, dining and kitchen, all of it has a totally new color scheme from when she was living. Which leads me to talk about a very touchy aspect of…

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Making Plans Anyway

May 29, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This morning I’m sitting some fifteen feet up in the air surrounded by woods, near the northern border of Arkansas, and it seems no accident that the book I brought with me to read is titled “The Gifts of Imperfection”. A few days ago, Mike and I made the 14 hour drive down to Eureka Springs. Why? To stay in a treehouse cottage, which has always…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: making plans, loss, facing, grief, confronting, living on, taking chances, death, moving forward, embracing life, new life, milestones, new relationships, widow, fear, sarah treanor

The Trauma of Going Home

May 15, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’m down in Texas this weekend. It’s my first visit in almost 6 months since moving to Ohio. Drew’s little sister is graduating… or actually, just did, yesterday. I arrived here on Thursday morning and immediately felt that beautiful rush of comfort of the familiar. The old, wide oak trees, the rolling hills, the warmth of the Texas heat… it…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: loss, triggers, moving forward, returning home, trauma, facing the past, widow, sarah treanor

One Risk at a Time

May 1, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This was me, back in 2009. The week Drew and I began dating, we jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. It was a pivotal experience for me… and changed my beliefs in myself and how I dealt with risk and fear in my life. I have always been a cautious person, but every so often, I discovered after this day, I am able to make some pretty big leaps.

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: living again, grief, bravery, new love, living together, triggers, death, risk, choices, moving forward, fear, moving in together, widow, new steps, loss

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