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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: widow, sarah treanor, birthday, finding joy again, widowhood, discoveries, Old Self, six years, milestones

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: rockport, widow, sarah treanor, metaphor, loss, grief, widowhood, rebuilding, hurricane harvey, debris, destruction

Off Kilter

January 8, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

My memories of Mike echo off the walls of the house, yet the silence in my home is deafening.  Everything is quiet now.  Death makes your whole world go silent.  I think this is by design.  We need this noiseless environment and solitude to contemplate how we will re-create ourselves.  As we do the work of re-defining our identity we need to…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: potential, StaciSulin, buildyourwingsonthewaydown, grief, life, Change, widowhood, Living, fear, grieving, widow, scared, hope, blog, love

New Identities in Widowhood

January 7, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Here we are. A new year. An entire expanse of fresh time laid out before me… and a mixture of dread and excitement about what that means. As I’m reflecting and looking forward from this in-between space, I’m thinking on just how much has changed in my life in the past five years. In particular, how unreal it is that I have become so many new…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: post-loss, new year, five years, growing, new roles, sarah treanor, loss, grief, widowhood, Looking Back, new identities

Galaxies within Us

December 31, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Nearing New Year’s, of course we’re all looking back. Or maybe some of us aren’t because we don’t want to – or we just can’t. I imagine a lot of us are ready to leave 2017 in the dust. I certainly am. Not perhaps in the same way I was ready to leave 2012 in the dust…  that was more about running away from my reality and my pain. This…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widow, sarah treanor, loss, grief, living on, widowhood, 5+ years, new year, five years, reflecting, milestones

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: widow, Numb, love, you'vegotthis, StaciSulin, traveller, grief, numbness, life, neverthelessshepersisted, widowhood, rituals, trauma, baggage, shock, grieving

Who Am I ?

December 11, 2017 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

                                                                        Life after the death of the person you love demands that you ask yourself BIG questions.  Ironically, the questions are often about life and living.  I have asked myself over and over again, Who am I now that Mike has died?  Maybe part of…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widowhood, engaged, identity, fiancee, widow, love, StaciSulin, life, changes

Inward and Outward

November 30, 2017 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

Mike is everywhere, and nowhere. I feel him in my bones, like a part of my own body. He haunts my every waking hour. I never forget. It never slips my mind that my husband is dead. I can’t stop the memories that flood in. It doesn’t matter where I am or what I’m doing. Shopping, celebrating a holiday, watching his birthday come and go,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories Tagged With: memories, widowhood, stephanie vendrell, philosophy

Growth and the Gifts in Grief

June 11, 2017 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Tomorrow marks the first day of the summer session for my eCourse that I am teaching now for the 3rd time. I create this class last year as a way to share much of what I had learned in my own grieving process about creativity. For four weeks, my students will be diving into lessons and creative prompts in writing, photography, and painting, with…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: overcoming fear, widow new life, ecourse, gifts, sarah treanor, grief, widowhood, growth

Another Runner Up?

January 19, 2017 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

I derive a lot of inspiration reading the other writers here at Widow’s Voice. They are all strong, beautiful people with individual stories of tragedy and living this life. I feel honored to be listed on the same page as they are. Reading Michelle’s post this week, Runner Up, made me stop and think. I don’t write much about my boyfriend here. A…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and New Love, Miscellaneous Tagged With: stephanie vendrell, family, widowed, widowhood, relationships

One Way Rider

July 31, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

It’s incredible what a song can do. I was driving home tonight, emotions already welling up in me. Moving in with Mike is probably one of the most bittersweet things to happen in my life since Drew died. And I hate that. I was over at my place picking up a few things, walking around outside for a moment in the quiet of the evening, and a great…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widowhood, Looking Back, death, new life, Meaning, moving, Past life, widow, one way rider, sarah treanor, song, loss, relating, grief, therapeutic, Music, what never will be

No Reason to Fear

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

Ever since that horrible day 4 years ago, I have been shoved into every imaginable situation of discomfort. Just like all of you. I’ve been thrust into an oblivion… a war zone of emotions… trying to fight my way through without even knowing which direction I am fighting towards. Fighting in the dark. Wandering. Scared. Trying to survive.

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: lessons, widowhood, death, risk, growth, learning, taking risks, widow, fear, sarah treanor, writer, loss, facing fears, grief, do what scares you

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