Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 228, the fear of forgetting them.

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.

Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.

Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Did you know that if you like watching video,

that you can watch videos of the Mom Goes On podcast, most episodes. Not everyone, but this one,

if you want to, instead of listening on your podcast platform of choice, you can actually go to

YouTube and you will see me recording it in all

of my glory. Just wanted to make sure that you know that. So this week, I want to talk about

the fear of forgetting them because I think it's one of the deepest fears that we face. It was

definitely a huge fear for me. I know I really worried about forgetting the way Hugo smelled and forgetting

the sound of his laughter and forgetting just like the tiny little things. I already believed

I had a bad memory anyway. And so it was really amplified for a few reasons, which'll go into today but today I want to talk about

why we feel so afraid and kind of normalize that how the fear can be problematic if we don't

figure out how to support ourselves through it and then some actual things that we can do

practically speaking to preserve the memories and to support ourselves.

So that's what we're going to cover today. I told you I would start sharing the joys that I'm having

and let me tell you my joy this week. It's happening this week as you listen to this podcast

recording, but I'm recording the podcast ahead of time because right now as you listen, I am on a cruise

somewhere in the Caribbean. I have never been on a cruise before. I've been to different parts

of the Caribbean before, but never on a cruise. And the boyfriend and I are going on a cruise.

So that is my joy right now. In addition, of course, to it just being fall, because,

you know, that's my favorite. So anyway, let's talk about fear. It is such a common thing to be

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