202. Navigating Grief and Widowhood: A Widows Unfiltered Interview with Jess Peurakoski

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 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As widowed moms at different stages of grief and widowhood, we never have enough stories that show us we aren’t alone in our experience. I’m so grateful for people like my Mom Goes On client, Jess Peurakoski, who is willing to invest in herself and do hard, uncomfortable, and scary things.

Hear Jess’s widowhood journey, her experience of being in our community, and what her life looks like now as she continues to navigate her grief.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/202

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 202, Widows Unfiltered, an interview with Jess Pirokowski.
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.
0:34.0	Welcome to another episode of the podcast.
0:37.0	I'm recording this intro for the third time because I keep
0:40.1	crying. I'm going to try not to cry this time. Here's the thing. I have these interviews and then I
0:49.4	record the intro later. So I just did this interview with Jess, and it's just really humbling to me,
0:56.1	and I'm really, really grateful that I have a job where I get to help women when they are
1:04.9	at a terribly low point in their lives, and I get to give them tools that they can use to help themselves and that
1:12.6	they can use to help their children and that they can use long after we're done coaching
1:17.3	together. And even though I'm doing this work all day long, there's something about hearing
1:24.6	about it from someone else and then sitting back and reflecting on it. And I just still
1:28.7	kind of have to pinch myself sometimes that this is what I get to do. And I still wouldn't
1:36.5	have asked that Hugo die so that I get to do it. I still wish that, you know, that the accident
1:43.0	hadn't happened. But since it did, here we are, right?
1:48.5	And I'm really grateful to my past self for what I did after he died and what I have
1:56.7	created since he died and how I help other women since he died.
1:59.6	And I'm really grateful to people
2:01.2	like Jess, who are willing to invest in themselves and do scary hard things because they want to be
2:06.9	the best parent that they can be. And even when it's not easy and it requires time and effort and
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