212. Why I Rarely Recommend Journaling for Widowed Moms

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

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Getting everything that’s swirling around in your mind out on paper can be incredibly helpful. However, it can also be extremely problematic, specifically for widowed moms who are past acute grief.

If journaling is cementing stories in your brain that don’t feel good to you, it’s time for a different approach, and I’m teaching you the alternatives on this episode.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/212

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 212, why I rarely recommend journaling for widowed moms.
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.
0:32.7	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm trying another one with video. It's weird to
0:39.4	watch yourself record a podcast, by the way. I make no guarantees that as you listen to this audio,
0:44.8	that the video I am referring to is actually available anywhere, but it is my intention. And I just
0:51.2	talked to my almost 16 year old about maybe he might want to help me,
0:56.6	edit my videos and turn them into YouTube videos. Anyway, we'll get there. Okay. So I wanted to talk
1:03.5	about journaling because I sent out an email not too long ago about this subject and made a
1:09.4	social post about it. And I got a surprising response.
1:14.3	It was a really high interest level and also just a lot of people who were surprised at my
1:19.4	perspective on journaling. And not everybody agrees with me. But that's okay. So I want to talk
1:24.9	about why I really just don't often recommend journaling, specifically for people who are past acute grief.
1:34.7	So let me explain.
1:35.3	I know that it is popular wisdom that journaling is a great thing to do, that writing down everything that's in your mind and getting that out into paper, onto paper is a great thing to do, that writing down everything that's in your mind and getting that out
1:44.9	into paper, onto paper is a great thing to do. And I think sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't.
1:53.1	So let me tell you first when I think it is helpful and then second when it isn't. And then I want
1:59.4	to give you some ideas of, like, how you can
2:01.9	navigate and know what to do instead. So in the early days of grief, what most people call
2:09.3	acute grief, I think journaling can be very valuable. When you are in a place of such dissonance,
2:23.0	when your brain is trying to adjust to the new reality that your person is no longer living, getting that out on paper can be really helpful.
2:30.6	I did a lot of writing in my early days of grief.
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