2. Myths of Grief
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m sharing six myths of grief and walking through why each one is inaccurate. I talk about why grief is a normal, natural response to loss and why some common platitudes about grieving are so off-base. I also offer up some suggestions for moving through grief without forcing yourself to bury emotions or grieve in solitude.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode two, Myths of 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, everyone, welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Krista St. Germain. And today I want to talk to you |
| 0:40.7 | about some of the myths of grief. These are things that just keep coming up in the life coaching |
| 0:48.6 | that I do with my widowed mom clients. Many of them, in fact, were myths that I also believed when my husband passed. |
| 0:58.4 | Unfortunately, as a culture, most of what we're taught about grief, which is very little, in fact, |
| 1:06.8 | that we're actually taught, but most of what we have learned about grief isn't accurate. |
| 1:13.3 | And it can cause us a lot of trouble. |
| 1:16.3 | It can be very problematic when we aren't prepared or when we are misinformed and we have a |
| 1:22.1 | significant loss like the loss of a partner, spouse, husband, and we're looking to receive support from those around us |
| 1:31.1 | who are also misinformed, then we end up both unprepared to be the griever and surrounded by people |
| 1:40.2 | who are unprepared to support us. So I'd like to talk about six of the most common |
| 1:46.0 | myths that I see and kind of write those wrongs that are out there. Before I do that, I'd also |
| 1:52.8 | like to talk about generally grief. So when I'm talking about grief in the context of this |
| 1:59.7 | podcast, I'm talking about the thoughts and |
| 2:03.8 | feelings, the normal natural response to loss. And in this case, death. Now, of course, |
| 2:12.5 | we grieve as humans for many different losses. But in the context of this podcast, we're |
| 2:20.1 | specifically talking about the loss of our husband, death of a partner. The most common and |
| 2:29.1 | prevalent myth that I hear and that I think I find the most frustrating and perhaps my biggest pet peeve |
| 2:37.5 | is the idea that there are five stages of grief that we should go through. |
| 2:46.4 | So the book on death and dying was written by Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and her work was |
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