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Serenity

February 6, 2020 by Jeff Ziegler 2 Comments

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In the wake of Suzanne dying, I struggled to find true peace. How did others do it, I wondered? Some turn to “god”, religion, etc. Others turn to self-medicating (drugs, alcohol, etc.). Some find it in more unconventional ways. I finally fell into the last category. When Suzanne died, my whole world shattered. The girls suffered. Her parents…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: widower, widowed dad, widower with children, widowed finding happiness again, solitude, serenity

New Year’s Resolution

January 2, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

 It’s 2017.  This is the 35th time that my body has traveled around the sun on this little rock called earth.  In those 35 trips, I’ve been witness and participant to milestones of education and career, love and marriage, childbirth and parenting, sickness, and death.  I’ve seen friendships both grow and wither.  I’ve evolved from a…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Trips, new year, resolutions, solitude, Returning, Failed plans, widower, Absence, Mike Welker, Familiar Places, Home, being oneself, Nature, sense of self, Hiking

Take me Home, Country Roads

November 29, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

“I hear her voice in the morning hour, she calls me, the radio reminds me of my home far away.And driving down the road I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.Country roads, take me home to the place I belong.West Virginia, mountain mamma, take me home, country roads.” – John Denver In the purest, most technical…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Returning, Failed plans, Absence, Familiar Places, widower, Mike Welker, Home, Nature, Hiking, Trips, solitude

It is not the Mountains we Conquer

January 25, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

“It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves. – Sir Edmund Hillary” I’ve walked in nature my entire life.  I’ve hiked, and camped in woods, deserts, jungles, alpine mountains,  swamps, boreal forests, and caves.  I’ve lived, overnight, in snow, thunderstorms, ungodly heat, wind, and cold.  Mosquitos have eaten me alive, and bears…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: wilderness, Self-awareness, solitude, helping others, Camping, backpacking, serenity, widower, widower with children, Nature, Hiking

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