Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 195, urges are just feelings.

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.

Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.

Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast.

So I got my baby girl headed off to Spain, where she is

going to study for 104 days. If anyone is counting, I may be counting 104 days in Spain. I'm super

excited for her. The process has involved, as it did in the fall when she went off to Costa Rica,

a lot of me allowing feelings. And that really ties so well into what I want to cover in this

podcast, because once you understand that feelings can't hurt you and that you have the ability

to allow feelings to flow through and you start to feel more powerful

as it relates to your feelings. And you realize that urges are just feelings too, then things start to

change when you have urges, right? Behaviorers start getting easier to understand and to change.

So that's what we're going to talk about in today's podcast episode. Before we do that, though, I want to tell you about something

I'm very excited about that is coming up, which is a masterclass on dating for widows. And it's free,

which is also very exciting. And it's such an important topic.

I've done a couple of podcast episodes related to dating, but I really want to do a master

class to dive in a little bit more.

Because for many widows, dating is such a loaded topic, and it brings with it so many

worries and fears and apprehension and sometimes even frustration and insecurity

and resentment. I remember the first time I realized that someone had taken me on a date,

even though I didn't think it was a date, and how angry I was and how much resentment I felt.

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