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In a Frozen World

March 25, 2018 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

My fiance died in 2012. In the spring of 2014, I began creating a photographic series about my grief, called “Still, Life”… sharing weekly self portraits that captured my pain, hope, confusion, anger and everything else that comes along with grief. I worked on this series for about a year, creating 40 haunting, hopeful, honest images… with each…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: winter, photo, self portrait, photographs of grief, creative expression, art therapy, frozen, sarah treanor, loss, grief

You’re a Mean One…

December 12, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Ahhh yes…the holidays.  It is a constant ride of ups and downs, like the world’s most depressing roller coaster.  Kicking off with Thanksgiving.  Spending time with friends and family, circled around a hearty dinner and laughter, I get to remember that Megan died just a week before that day.  I don’t get to remember the 33 prior enjoyable…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: memories, Mike Welker, widower with children, Holidays, triggers, Music, songs, winter, Christmas, Minefield, widower

Humbug

December 27, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Without a second thought, I stepped right into the holidays, as I’ve done for all but one year in the last 15 (the year Megan died was a little different).  Just after Thanksgiving, we got our Christmas tree, put up lights on the house, decorated indoors, and as a first, we set up my old model train on the dining table, complete with snow,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Therapy, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Holidays, Work, winter, Christmas, counseling, grumpy, widower, angry, Celebrations, December, Stress, self reflection, Mike Welker, past person, widower with children

The Springtime of my Heart

September 11, 2016 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

The crocus is a flower that blooms in early spring here in Ohio. So early in fact that it’s one of the first glimpses of spring you will see peeking through the colorless shell of winter. Year after year, these vibrant beauties bring with them the first moments of hope towards spring coming. Today as I am reflecting back, and as the seasons are…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Emotions, Miscellaneous Tagged With: death, seasons, winter, bereavement, spring, widow, thaw, sarah treanor, new phases, loss, grief, new love, Change

Taking Things for Granted

February 15, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

You don’t realize how important the little things are until you don’t have them.  It could be something as simple as sitting on the couch, watching TV until you fall asleep with your partner, and it is taken for granted.  Then you lose that person.     I’ll admit that I was eased into some of the more technical aspects of the widower…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Birthdays, Miscellaneous Tagged With: widower, birthdays, sarah treanor, Mike Welker, widower with children, winter, Silver Linings, little things

Metaphors for Grief in Nature

December 12, 2015 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’m always astounded at the things nature teaches me about life and grief. This week I went for a walk at a park near my new house. It’s a wilderness park, with one trail that makes a 2 mile circle surrounding a prairie. For years, this area was farmland, and the park system has now preserved it to allow the landscape to fully restore back to it’s…

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