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Ramble On

November 7, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

On February 5th, 2015, I wandered into a Hotel in Tampa, Florida, not quite sure if I was supposed to be there.  I had lost Megan less than three months prior, and I hadn’t honestly accepted the fact that I was now a Widower.  In the year leading up to it, I had spent more time sitting next to my dying wife than anything else.   Like many of…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community, Miscellaneous Tagged With: time, writing, perspective, Risks, questions, sharing, Ramble, Trying, widower, camp widow, Mike Welker

T.M.I.

October 10, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It is very rare that one particular emotion takes the forefront of my mind for any longer than a few days.  In general, there is a veritable melting pot of thoughts occurring at any given moment, ranging from sadness to joy and everything in between.  Fear and confusion are tempered by confidence and determination.   Of course, there are periods…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: Process, widower, Mike Welker, widower with children, writing, sharing, emotions, TMI, Openness

Killer Lonliness

June 1, 2017 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

Last week in my nutrition course we heard some amazing lectures about Blue Zones. If you don’t know what Blue Zones are, they are communities in various places around the globe that share common lifestyle and environmental factors that contribute to their populations being among the longest-lived and healthiest on the planet. These areas were first…

Filed Under: Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community, Widowed Suddenly, Miscellaneous Tagged With: lonliness, community, support, stephanie vendrell, sharing, middle age, suddenly widowed

Words as Weapons

February 7, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s no secret lately that I share my outlooks, experiences, and emotions with ruthless integrity, perhaps bordering upon over-sharing that information.  Private anecdotes become public, once a week, as I write here.  The quiet grumbles or “bad moods” that friends and family may see me in become soap-box seminars when it is in digital form…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: silence, wounds, tools, Past, sharing, Scars, Words, widower, creative, Stress, dealing, Mike Welker, history, widower with children, pedestals, writing, release

Broken Hearts Club

April 24, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

For the past week, I have poured myself into the creation of my new grief workshop. It’s finally getting real now. Which is scary and exciting all at the same time. The fundraiser is over, and by the end, I raised $1700 to help with the creation of all of this. Amazingly, 95% of those donations were from widowed people. None of my close non-widow…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community Tagged With: death, sharing, helping each other, broken bits, widow, sarah treanor, community, loss, grief, support

Perspectives from Camp Widow

March 15, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Sarah and I have just returned from Camp Widow, in Tampa.  This was our third camp together, and our first time returning to Tampa, where we met last year.  If you’ve read her sunday post, you know that we had great expectations of what this Camp was going to be like, and for the first few days, it seemed as if everything we had planned for…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Therapy, Widowed Community Tagged With: Mike Welker, healing, sharing, Socialization, Tampa, non judgement, widower, camp widow

“It Isn’t Just Me”

March 6, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s less than a week until Mike and I will be flying down to Tampa for Camp Widow. It’s so surreal to think of all that has happened in a year. Life is no less complicated than it ever has been, in fact more so for me. It’s a good complicated, but that doesn’t make it easy. I was talking with another widow friend the other day about this. Like me,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: sarah treanor, letting go, loss, 4 years, grief, love after death, death, keeping connection, pain, friendship, healing, sharing, living again, widow, helping each other

Sharing Grief and Taking Steps

February 28, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

A lot has been going on this past week. Most notably, birthdays. I wrote last week about Shelby’s birthday and all the emotions it brought up for me. I don’t think it is any coincidence that my mom’s birthday was just a week after Mike’s daughter’s. And thusly, as happens most years, emotions are high. For years now, I have been…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: widow, steps forward, sarah treanor, loss, grief, death, taking risks, new, grieving, sharing, bereavement, motherless daughters

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