152. Why We Suck at Grief
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
There are so many instances where we make grief harder on ourselves than necessary. So, join me this week as I share the top 15 reasons why we suck at grief, and how we can make the experience of grief easier on ourselves.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, Episode 152, Why We Suck at 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 |
| 0:23.2 | to. |
| 0:24.2 | Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain. |
| 0:32.7 | Hey there. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome to another episode of the podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | I had a good weekend. I had a great weekend, |
| 0:39.7 | actually. Sometimes you go into a weekend with low expectations, and then it's just such a |
| 0:45.8 | lovely weekend. I didn't expect it to go badly or anything, but I just didn't expect it to be |
| 0:51.0 | anything all that exciting. And it was such a good weekend so watch the |
| 0:55.2 | final four game i'm not even that much of a basketball fan to be honest but the boyfriend is |
| 1:00.7 | his youngest is and of course k u kansas university of kansas i'm from kansas you know was playing |
| 1:08.6 | and made it all the way to the championships, which are tonight. |
| 1:13.1 | So that was really fun. We had a little gathering. My daughter hung out with me and we |
| 1:18.8 | cheered for KU and the boyfriend and his son cheered for Villanova because that's who's in their |
| 1:24.2 | bracket. I have KU going all the way. But anyway, did that. And then |
| 1:29.0 | got a bunch of flowers for the house. This makes me so happy. There aren't that many |
| 1:35.1 | garden stores quite open yet in my area because I'm recording this in the first part of April. |
| 1:40.3 | But there were a few. And last year, of course, we moved into this house and it has all of these |
| 1:47.2 | pots. I think I counted 13 pots. It's got a ton of pots. And so we got all the pots looking |
| 1:55.5 | great and multiple hanging baskets and just made the outdoors a lovely place to be. In fact, I think this |
| 2:01.5 | afternoon, I'm going to go sit on the porch and see if I can get some work done out there. |
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