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The Widowed Mom Podcast

223. When It’s Useful Not to Know

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

Mental Health, Grief, Deathofpartner, Education, Widowedmom, Deathofspouse, Widow, Lossoflovedone, Health & Fitness, Husbanddied, Self-improvement, Posttraumaticgrowth, Lifeafterloss, Overcominggrief

4.6649 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

“I don’t know” is a phrase I’ve taught many widows to avoid using in their lives. 

 

Learn whether your “I don’t know” story is serving you or holding you back, and hear why it’s sometimes useful not to know, and how to make peace with not knowing.

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/223

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 223, when it's useful not to know.

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. So I am recording this a little bit earlier.

0:40.6

It's 106 today. And probably fall should be the last thing on my mind, but I'm so excited to decorate.

0:48.4

It's ridiculous. So hopefully this weekend, it's not going to be in the hundreds anymore.

0:55.4

I can bust out the fall decorations. This last weekend, it was 111 on Saturday. I had time. I held off. But if you've

1:03.4

listened to the podcast for a while, you know that I'm, I'm obsessed with fall. Fall is very fun to me.

1:08.7

So I can't wait to actually get out decorations. And hopefully they

1:13.1

won't all melt because it won't be in the hundreds by then. But anyway, also,

1:18.1

Marissa is home, my oldest. Now she's transferred. She's doing her sophomore year here in Wichita.

1:23.8

And so she's home and she's my decorating partner in crime.

1:29.4

So looking forward to doing that with her.

1:35.0

And even though it is not quite fall as I record this, I want to make sure you know about the Mementos and Memories free online event that I am doing

1:41.2

starting September 18th, 2023. If you've not already registered,

1:46.7

I want you to go do that right now. Like push pause on the podcast, go register, get that done.

1:52.1

It will take literally two minutes. It is not a complicated registration process. But if the idea

1:58.4

of dealing with your person's stuff feels at all uncomfortable for you, if you feel a

2:04.7

little overwhelmed, if you feel a sense of dread when you think about it, if you start to worry

2:09.3

about what other people will think, if you start to contemplate the regret that you might feel

2:14.7

if you make decisions, when you think of whatever is left of your

2:18.9

person's stuff that you want to make decisions around, if you don't feel good about it, go sign up

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