176. How We Make the Holidays Harder in Grief

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

Mental Health, Grief, Deathofpartner, Education, Widowedmom, Deathofspouse, Widow, Lossoflovedone, Health & Fitness, Husbanddied, Self-improvement, Posttraumaticgrowth, Lifeafterloss, Overcominggrief

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Are you starting to dread the holidays, and it’s not even Halloween yet? No matter when you lost your person, this time of year can be especially hard. And if you’re feeling that impending holiday dread, I’ve got just the thing for you on this episode. Listen in to discover three ways we make the holidays harder in grief, and how we can make this time of year a little easier on ourselves and maybe even enjoy it.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/176

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 176, How We Make the Holidays Harder in Grief.
0:07.9	Are you starting to dread the holidays, and it's not even Halloween?
0:12.0	If so, you aren't alone, and in today's episode, I'm going to help you with any impending holiday dread you might be feeling,
0:20.0	and let you know about a free holiday
0:21.9	event I'm doing just for widowed moms so you can join in, get some extra support, and have
0:27.3	an easier experience of the holidays. Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast
0:34.9	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.
0:45.0	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:53.5	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast.
0:57.4	Fall!
0:58.7	You know I love it.
1:00.3	I am loving it.
1:01.7	Tomorrow we are going to go to Symphony on the Grand Lawn, which I've never been to before,
1:06.9	but it is at our local botanical gardens and our symphony orchestra does an outdoor
1:13.1	concert on the Grand Lawn. And so I'm really excited about that. The weather looks to be amazing.
1:19.0	And I just love stuff like that. And it feels like I don't get enough of it, especially with COVID,
1:24.3	just haven't done as much of it. And so it's nice to actually start doing more
1:28.4	things around town. And then Saturday is our local Chili Fest. Also have never been to that.
1:35.5	So we're going to check that out. And then I've been saving my pansy mania money. So the boyfriend and I
1:44.1	bought, we've been landscaping in this house for about
1:46.9	the last year, but we bought a whole bunch of plants and bushes and other things at one of our
1:51.8	local garden centers earlier this summer. And when we did so, we got this pansy mania money.
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