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The Challenge of Living At All

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

Sometimes I wonder, is life harder because I have been widowed or would have been just as hard in different ways if I had never been widowed? It’s a question I think on when I have long talks with friends who aren’t widowed, who are going through their own complex lives… complete with blended, divorced families and step kids or uncertainty in…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: growth, learning, widowed, widow, sarah treanor, lessons, living on, new life, challenges

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: moving forward, new life, plan b, transitions, life ended, widow, having to choose, sarah treanor, making new choices, loss, grief, changes, death

One Way Rider

July 31, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s incredible what a song can do. I was driving home tonight, emotions already welling up in me. Moving in with Mike is probably one of the most bittersweet things to happen in my life since Drew died. And I hate that. I was over at my place picking up a few things, walking around outside for a moment in the quiet of the evening, and a great…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Past life, widow, one way rider, sarah treanor, song, loss, relating, grief, therapeutic, Music, what never will be, widowhood, Looking Back, death, new life, Meaning, moving

Breathing In and Breathing Out

July 2, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I’m batting jet-lag to write my blog today, so I apologise in advance for any typos (or any more than usual!) and if I ramble on a bit. I got home to Brisbane, Australia on a red-eye flight from the USA this morning, after three weeks away.  It was a wonderful holiday, with the highlight being Camp Widow West in San Diego, however I reeeeeally…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed by Suicide Tagged With: young widow, dating, new love, new life, rebecca collins, aussie widow, suicide widow

Strange New World

June 11, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

Thursday was my third wedding anniversary.  This one felt slightly different to the previous two, however it was still as sad.  The night before, I stayed at my boyfriend’s place and when we went to bed it all caught up with me. I couldn’t believe that this time three years ago I was spending the night with my bridesmaids, getting ready to…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed by Suicide Tagged With: young widow, dating, wedding anniversary, new love, new life, rebecca collins, aussie widow, suicide widow

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…

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

A New Beginning

June 4, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I’m at a strange and new phase in my grief.  My third wedding anniversary is looming on Thursday (all of which I’ve had to mark without Dan, because he died before we had the chance to celebrate one together). This is a time that is usually difficult and emotional.  However… my whole compass for what is ‘normal’ in this world without him has…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed by Suicide Tagged With: suicide widow, young widow, dating, new love, new life, rebecca collins, aussie widow

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: taking chances, death, moving forward, embracing life, new life, milestones, new relationships, widow, fear, sarah treanor, making plans, loss, facing, grief, confronting, living on

The Family I Never Knew I Needed

May 28, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I spent last weekend in Melbourne with about a dozen very dear friends.  These women have only been in my life for a couple of years now, however it feels like I’ve known them my whole life. They see my soul, in its most bare and vulnerable state, a way that people who have known my most of my life will never understand.   These are my widow…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Widowed by Suicide Tagged With: aussie widow, suicide widow, young widow, new life, growth, widow friends, rebecca collins

Taking Another Step Forward

May 14, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I’m exhausted. I’ve been packing, cleaning, sorting and lugging boxes all day, actually no – for weeks now.  My bones ache, my feet are sore and I’m typing this through bleary eyes.   On Monday morning, two guys in a van will be pulling into the driveway of my big family home, filling it with all my precious possession and moving me into my new…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed by Suicide Tagged With: aussie widow, suicide widow, moving house, young widow, dating, new life, rebecca collins

The Accidental Mother, Part 2

May 8, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I have the ironic honor of always writing on Mother’s Day, being the Sunday writer here at Widow’s Voice. Ironic because it always forces me to evaluate my feelings about a holiday I have mostly chosen not to celebrate since my own mother died when I was young. I hate this day, or at least, I mostly always have. But this post isn’t about that.

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: grief, celebrating, discoveries, new life, unexpected, mothering, mother's day, accidental mother, widow, ways we mother, sarah treanor, loss

1000 days

April 23, 2016 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

Dear Dan, This week we reached another milestone, albeit not exactly a traditional one.  On Tuesday, it had been 1000 days since I kissed you goodbye. The reason I know this is because I put a ‘countdown’ ap on my phone after you died, so I’d always know how many months, weeks or days since you’d been gone.  Isn’t that a strange thing to want to…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Suicide Tagged With: moving house, young widow, anniversary, new life, growth, rebecca collins, aussie widow, suicide widow

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