205. Spot Your Grief ANTs

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

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We have so many Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) in grief, and we can spiral downward in them very quickly. Whether it’s that you won’t ever be happy again, no one understands you, or you’re just not doing it right, we often don’t even see them as thoughts. We just believe them.

Hear why your grief ANTs matter, and how to begin acknowledging them for what they are.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/205

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 205, Spot Your Grief, Ants.
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. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista
0:30.5	St. Germain.
0:32.8	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Spring has sprung here where I live. I don't know
0:39.7	how it's going for you, but it's feeling very springy around here, which I love. I can go outside and
0:48.2	walk. I can enjoy my flowers. I can sit outside and work and it's not hot yet. So I am loving that. So today on the podcast,
0:58.6	I want to talk about spotting your grief ants. So we're going to talk about what a grief
1:04.7	ant is, why they matter, and what to do about them, because we all have them. So what is the grief aunt? I don't even
1:13.6	know where this abbreviation came from. I just love it. And so I'm sharing it with you. I didn't
1:18.1	create it myself, this idea of an ant. But an ant stands for automatic negative thought,
1:25.3	A-N-T. In grief, we have a lot of automatic negative thoughts.
1:31.0	And we're often just believing them and not even really seeing them as thoughts.
1:34.3	So maybe you recognize some of the following automatic negative thoughts, ants.
1:40.5	I'll probably never be happy without them. It's too much. I can't handle it. I don't fit in now.
1:49.1	No one understands me. I'm not doing this right. There's something wrong with me. Any of those
1:56.0	sound familiar? That is a very short list, but of common automatic negative thoughts that I have had that my clients
2:05.5	have had that you might be having. And the truth is that we have tens of thousands of thoughts every day.
2:13.2	Depending on the research that you read, some people will say 10,000, some people will say up to 60,000, some people will say more. I've never really found a definitive answer that I feel good
2:21.7	about, but the point is thousands and thousands and thousands of thoughts, float through our minds
2:27.2	every single day. And what we can agree on, although again, I couldn't quote you a percentage I
2:32.9	feel good about, is that the majority
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