236. The Gratitude Trap

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

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Widows are constantly being told that we’re supposed to be grateful and that we should count our blessings. We’re being sold the idea that gratitude is the “fix,” and I don’t buy it.

Hear why the gratitude trap is problematic, how it might be doing you more harm than good, and the difference between true gratitude and forced gratitude.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/236

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 236, The Gratitude Trap.
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. Before we get into it, did you know that I have a new
0:40.1	live workshop coming up? It's going to be Thursday, December 14th, you are invited. It is application
0:48.1	only. I will explain that in a second. But this workshop is for you if you are a widowed mom who wants to increase her
0:57.4	self-confidence. It's called how widowed moms can create rock solid self-confidence without
1:02.8	more therapy, depressing grief groups, or positive thinking. That's what we need, right?
1:08.8	Rock solid self-confidence. I want to invite you. Go to coaching with Krista.com need right rock solid self-confidence i want to invite you go to coaching with krista
1:12.2	com forward slash rock solid and that's where you'll find the application it is application only
1:19.0	and it's not because i'm trying to be exclusive this is a free training it's because i want to
1:24.3	make sure that you are in the right place that what I offer you in this
1:30.6	training would actually help you. If you know what it's like to be an early acute grief,
1:34.9	and unfortunately we can't use timelines to measure this, but if you know what it's like to be an
1:39.0	early acute grief when you can barely function, it's really hard to process things, you can't
1:44.0	remember things very well, your grief fog might be intense. It's really hard to process things. You can't remember things very well.
1:45.4	Your grief fog might be intense. It's just you're not back to functioning yet. If you wanted to go
1:50.4	back to work, you couldn't yet. It's not for people in that space of grief. This is for people who
1:56.9	are back to functioning, but their self-confidence isn't where they want it to be.
2:01.2	This is for people who are being told all the time that they look so strong, but they don't
2:05.9	feel so strong. But they can understand why people are saying that because they're back to
2:09.6	functioning. Okay. So coaching with Krista.com forward slash rock solid. You will find all of the
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Krista St-Germain, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Krista St-Germain and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.