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Follow the Yellow Brick Road

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

This past weekend Mike and I attended Camp Widow Toronto. We helped out with a lot of things this year, from leading panel discussions and groups, to building the enormous sign of HOPE for the banquet and working with Michele to plan the message release around it. I also hosted my creative workshop again, for the second year, which was an…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous Tagged With: healing together, camp widow, widow, sarah treanor, hope, community, metaphor, Toronto, 2018, yellow brick road

H O P E

November 6, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This past weekend, Sarah and I traveled to Toronto to attend our third Camp Widow there.  We’ve both realized that Camp Widow recharges us. Though we may not be in the active throes of grief on a daily basis, with Megan’s death four years ago, and Drew’s six, there is something about telling our stories, and hearing others’ that brings a…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower with children, help, Home, Courage, wisdom, widower, Opportunity, camp widow, sarah treanor, hope, Mike Welker, love

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

Remembering to Live

October 14, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Everyone has a favorite holiday. Mine is Halloween. I decorate the house inside and out. I spend tireless hours on costumes. I await my first haunted house of the season with eager anticipation. I’ve always liked this holiday, but it wasn’t until after Drew died that it became something I appreciated more deeply. Just 4 months after he died, my…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays Tagged With: halloween, traditions, finding joy again, haunted house, embracing humor, sarah treanor, Holidays, coping

Long Time no See

September 23, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

The thing most people don’t get about losing your partner is that you also lose a part of yourself when they die. You lose aspects of who you were with them. You lose a lot of your innocence, without having any choice in the matter. You grieve a loss of your own self. This sudden identity change was an equally painful part of losing my fiance six…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Birthdays, Widowed Milestones Tagged With: birthday, finding joy again, widowhood, discoveries, Old Self, six years, milestones, widow, 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: widow, Autumn, sarah treanor, loss, grief, Change, six years, widowed lessons, Looking Back, death, fall, seasons

I Wanted to Call You

August 26, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It has been now 6 years since my fiance died. Very seldom these days do I have those moments when all I want to do is pick up the phone to call him and tell him about something that happened. Part of that is due to time, and probably part due to being able to share many of our favorite things with my new partner Mike. Having lost my mom when I was…

Filed Under: Widowed Memories, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: triggers, New Memories, wish you were here, phone call, milestones, sarah treanor, remembering, new love

Taking you with Us

August 5, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Last week, Mike, Shelby and I packed up and drove south for the Smoky Mountains. We’ve been waiting and saving for this trip all year long. It is by far our favorite place to go unwind and explore the beauty of nature. With buckling down on our finances, we haven’t been able to do really any trips this year, so this one was especially exciting…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: honoring loved ones, remembering, living on, love never dies, widow, sarah treanor

Pixel Memories

July 17, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Something that Megan and I did every year or two was get family photos taken.  While we had thousands of “candid” pictures, taken from our phones or old point-and-shoot devices, we were never posed, and neither of us were exactly professional photographers.  We would make the appointment, pack up a few various pieces of clothing, and head to…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widower with children, happiness, photography, Capturing Emotion, Pictures, widower, memories, sarah treanor, Mike Welker

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: sarah treanor, lessons, living on, new life, challenges, growth, learning, widowed, widow

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

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