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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: hope, community, metaphor, Toronto, 2018, yellow brick road, healing together, camp widow, widow, sarah treanor

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

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

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: living on, love never dies, widow, sarah treanor, honoring loved ones, remembering

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

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

Waiting in the Wings

June 17, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

This past week was the 6th anniversary of his death. I wrote last week about this, and what would have been our 9th anniversary together the week before. I will always hate that these two dates are a week apart. It’ll always piss me off to have to have my anniversary of celebrating our love so closely linked to when he died. But it is what it is…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy Tagged With: anniversary, loving on, 6 years, milestones, widowed, widow, sarah treanor, grief, support, death

100% Chance of Rain

February 17, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, a milestone came that I have dreaded for a very long time. It’s odd to say that, considering it was my anniversary with someone I love very much. But it wasn’t just any anniversary. It was the third year since the day Mike and I met. The third anniversary was also the last I got to have with Drew… he died six days later,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: loss, grief, anniversary, acceptance, 3 years, three years, rain, flood, milestones, widow, sarah treanor

The Power of This 4 Letter Word~

February 14, 2018 by Alison Miller Leave a Comment

I believe in Love.I believe that Love enriches and empowers and creates and morphs mere humans into magnificent beings.I believe that life dares us and bids us, at our best and our worst, to open our hearts to Love.I believe that life challenges us, through strife and perplexity and awkwardness, to continue loving in the face of all that it throws…

Filed Under: Widowed, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widow, love, poetry

The Me Now

February 8, 2018 by Olivia Arnold Leave a Comment

I sometimes feel like I have 2 identities: the me before and the me after my husband, Mike, died. I was originally going to introduce myself by introducing the me before I became a widow but that wasn’t sitting well with me as a first impression. It’s not really who I am today. It is still important to how my current identity developed but it…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: identity, young widow, widow, hope for widows, strong

Clearing the Debris

January 21, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

While we were down in my hometown last week for a wedding, we managed to get out for a few hours one morning to make the drive out to Rockport. If you’ll recall, this little coastal town got the brunt of hurricane Harvey last year. I will never forget sitting in bed at 2am, watching the TV in horror from 1400 miles away as one of my favorite…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: debris, destruction, rockport, widow, sarah treanor, metaphor, loss, grief, widowhood, rebuilding, hurricane harvey

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