242. If Self-Care Feels Terrible, You’re Probably Doing It Right

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

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If self-care feels terrible, it’s probably a sign that you’re doing it right. Self-care is not a luxury, indulgent, all about spas and vacations, or a sign that you’re not grieving “right.”

Hear how self-care feeling terrible is a green light to keep going, not a sign that you should stop, and three strategies for improving your sense of self-care.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/242

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 242. If self-care feels terrible, you're probably doing it right.
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. It's been a minute since I recorded a podcast. It was actually
0:39.0	pre-holidays. And here we are post-holidays. You will be hearing this in mid-January. So since then,
0:47.0	holidays were great. Family all got together. Everybody was healthy and well. Hugo's 50th birthday was a couple of days after Christmas. That felt
0:58.3	like a big milestone to me. He was 42 when he died and not having him here for 50. It was hard.
1:06.1	But I let myself feel all of it. I let myself miss him and celebrate him, be sad for what I lost and
1:12.2	be grateful for what I have. And it felt like the and experience that I want all of us to have.
1:18.7	So that was a good thing. My daughter went back to Costa Rica. Well, actually, as I'm recording this,
1:24.8	she is on her way back to Costa Rica. She's not actually there.
1:29.1	But she decided having fallen in love with it as a freshman in college last year,
1:34.7	that she would go back and do online class from there.
1:38.1	And she found a hostel that she could volunteer in and get lodging there for free,
1:42.7	essentially in exchange for work and study from there
1:45.7	and have a grand old adventure. She is a brave one. I was not that brave at 20 at all. I didn't even
1:53.6	want to leave the city that I lived in. Neither here nor there. She will have a great time. I will miss her
1:58.6	terribly again embracing the and. And I will go and visit
2:03.1	her once, if not twice. I'm planning that right now. Because who doesn't want to go to Costa Rica and work
2:08.8	from there? That's a really nice thing about having a job that allows for the kind of flexibility that
2:13.7	my job does. I can do this from anywhere that has internet, which is a beautiful thing.
2:18.1	So that's that. And then also, I'm not sure, but it's possible that there might still be a
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