145. Why Friends Disappear During Grief
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
It seems like right at the beginning of our grief, our friends are right there with us. But then we reach a point where it feels like most of our friends disappear and we don’t know why. This week, I’m offering six reasons why I think our friends disappear and what you can do to feel better right now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 145, Why Friends Disappeared During Grief. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly look forward to. |
| 0:24.2 | Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain. |
| 0:32.8 | Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Or maybe this is your first episode. It seems like we've had |
| 0:39.6 | a lot of new listeners today. So if this is your first episode, welcome. I'm glad you're here. |
| 0:44.9 | I know I haven't done an introduction in a long time. So I'll just take a second just to do one. |
| 0:50.1 | So hi, I'm Krista. And I'm a master certified life coach as the intro of the podcast probably |
| 0:57.5 | already told you I'm a widow and I'm a mom and I run a group coaching program called Mom Goes |
| 1:03.4 | on and I've been doing this work since 2018. |
| 1:07.7 | I became a coach in 2017. |
| 1:09.9 | My husband Hugo died in 2016 and he died rather unexpectedly. We were on a trip. We were actually coming back from a trip and we had both driven separately and he was trying to help me change a tire on my car on the side of the interstate. And so he had pulled his car up to mine and he was |
| 1:28.3 | trying to get access to the spare tire in the trunk. And I was standing on the side of the road and |
| 1:33.4 | texting my daughter to let her know that we would be late. She was 12 at the time. And a driver who we |
| 1:39.9 | later found out had both meth and alcohol in his system, did not see Hugo's hazard lights, |
| 1:45.6 | and just crashed into the back of his Durango, and trapped him in between his car and mine, |
| 1:51.6 | and within less than 24 hours, he was gone. And so I went from feeling like I was on a total |
| 1:59.7 | high in my life, where my marriage was going really well. This was my second |
| 2:03.4 | marriage. My first marriage had ended not so great. And so he was kind of my redemption story. |
| 2:09.4 | He was proof to me that you really could find someone who was amazing and loving and wonderful. |
| 2:16.0 | And really all of my dreams for the future included him. |
| 2:19.8 | So, ugh, right? |
| 2:21.5 | That's how I came to this work. |
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