240. Game 1 vs Game 2

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 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Losing your person is a big deal, and it’s challenging to grapple with this new life you didn’t choose. How can we appreciate this seismic shift that’s happened in our lives, and is it even possible?

Learn what the metaphor of game 1 versus game 2 means, and why it’s a useful way to think about this next chapter of life you’re currently in.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/240

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 240, Game 1 versus Game 2.
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.
0:32.8	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. So this one, I'm recording a little bit in advance because we're about to go into the holidays. If you're listening to this on the day it releases, happy new year, happy 2024. That feels really strange to say. I can't tell you how my holidays went or my new year is going because it hasn't happened yet. But I do have something I'm really excited
0:56.6	to talk to you about. I've been thinking about it for a while. This whole idea of game one
1:02.1	versus game two. And my hope is that it's going to be a really useful way for you to think
1:09.2	about this next chapter of life. So I'm going to do this in two episodes. I'm going to do
1:16.4	game one versus game two. And then next week, another episode will come out. And I'm going to talk about
1:23.4	the mistakes, the top seven mistakes that I see us making when we're playing game two.
1:30.1	So first, though, today I just want to introduce you to the concept.
1:34.1	And I want you to think about it between now and the time you listen to the next episode,
1:40.0	the follow-up episode.
1:41.0	So just imagine that life is a series of games. And for illustration
1:49.1	purposes, we're going to call the game that you were playing before your spouse partner
1:56.0	person died. Game one. And game one had its own set of rules and its own set of challenges and its own way to win. And game one had its own set of rules and its own set of challenges and its own
2:03.9	way to win and its own set of players and it was its own unique experience. But now you have been
2:13.7	thrown in to game two. Your person, partner spouse, died. You did not ask to be thrown
2:20.6	into game two, but nevertheless, here you are. And so this metaphor is a way to kind of grapple with,
2:29.4	to appreciate, to understand, to think about, this, like this seismic shift that has happened in our lives.
2:40.0	The difference between game one and game two is a really big deal.
2:46.5	So in game one, you had a partner, you had shared responsibilities, you had a particular set
2:54.1	of expectations about the way life was going to go, you had a particular identity or identities,
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