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Home & The Heart

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

I’ve written about it quite a few times these past few years, but moving across the country really did a number on me. I don’t think – scratch that – I KNOW I was in no way prepared for how difficult it would be to leave Texas. I have a love affair with my state that runs very deep. I have gone through some of the hardest but most meaningful…

Filed Under: Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: Change, healing, trauma, homesick, adjusting, moving, sarah treanor, grief

I can feel your arms around my Life…

December 18, 2017 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

Today it is thirteen months and 3 days since you died.  Some moments, your death still does not feel real to me.  And, other times, the realness of your death is so apparent I feel nauseated. This is grief in all it’s unapologetic glory. In the early days when you died I couldn’t even breathe. I’d gasp for breathe and I’d rock back and forth,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: grief, numbness, life, neverthelessshepersisted, widowhood, rituals, trauma, baggage, shock, grieving, widow, Numb, love, you'vegotthis, StaciSulin, traveller

The Winds of You

June 19, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This past week, I dug up all my old journals from boxes and drawers to photograph for my grief e-course I am building. In the course, we will spend a week writing about our grief, and so I decided to go back through my own journals to look for examples of some of the raw emotions I have captured since this journey began.  One of the things we talk…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: metaphor, words on grief, loss, grief, death, Nature, healing, trauma, poetry, bereavement, widow, writing poems, sarah treanor, written

Rebuilding Together

June 17, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Our awesome Friday writer, Kelley Lynn, is having some technical difficulties today while attending Camp Widow West, so she’s asked me to write something in her place. I didn’t hesitate to help her out, even though I have other work to be writing on this morning that I’m actually a bit behind schedule on! Now, this got me thinking about the…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: growth, healing, trauma, bereavement, benefits of hard times, adversity, widow, sarah treanor, loss, grief, death

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: moving forward, returning home, trauma, facing the past, widow, sarah treanor, loss, triggers

This Seemingly Never-ending Road~

March 9, 2016 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

Is it just me?  I wonder, even as I know it isn’t just me.  Logically and because I literally know otherwise, it isn’t just me.   There’s a boat load of men and women through time immemorial who have lived this shit that I’m living, that we’re all living. And yet, my brain doesn’t let up about it.Why are you still so traumatized, Alison?…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: trauma, chapter 2, EMDR, hospice, tapping, TRE, therapy, widow, grief, husband

Holding on Tightly~

January 20, 2016 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

In my heart, I’m carrying all the trauma from those 3 weeks when I went into auto pilot, (as we all do at such a time). Those 3 weeks where I was as present as could be to the best of my abilities as he and I said our goodbyes and my heart broke into pieces that were so huge and so small that they became invisible shards, but 3 weeks where I…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Widowed by Illness Tagged With: widow, hope, struggle, trauma, EMDR, hospice

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