246. What Widows Need to Know About Grief Theory

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

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Over the last hundred years, there have been several different grief theories developed by experts to help people understand the bereavement experience. Some of them are strongly criticized and don’t speak to most widows’ experiences.

I’m detailing the main grief theories in recent history, the criticisms of them, and how having an understanding of them benefits you on your own grief journey.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/246

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 246, What Widows Need to Know about grief theory.
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.
0:32.9	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I just bought tickets to go see my daughter in
0:40.2	Costa Rica. I'm very excited. I don't get to go for a few more weeks, but in late February,
0:46.9	I'm going to go and see her. My dad's going with me. I've mentioned it before, but she decided
0:51.4	she wanted to go to Costa Rica and she found a little hostel
0:55.2	where she could work and study and do her classes all online this semester. And so that's what
1:00.9	she's doing. And I miss her and I want to see her. And so I just book tickets. And I'm excited. I'm
1:06.3	going to be there for 12 days. Yeah, 12 days. Couldn't come soon enough. Not to mention the weather will be
1:16.2	significantly better in Costa Rica than it is in Kansas. But I'm really looking forward to just
1:22.1	seeing her and hanging out. And I love that I have a job where I can just do my coaching calls
1:26.3	from there. And I can, I'll have internet access and I can work from there.
1:30.2	Probably won't be recording any podcast episodes from there, but I can create and think
1:35.5	and coach and do my thing near a beach and my kid.
1:40.2	And I love that.
1:40.9	So that's what's going on with me.
1:43.5	I decided today I wanted to do an episode for you
1:46.3	that is valuable, but not super detailed because quite honestly, you don't need to know that much
1:52.6	about grief theory. But I do think that the way that we approach grief theory matters. And so I do
2:00.2	want you to have some information. So in this
2:02.5	episode of the podcast, I'm just going to cover what you need to know briefly about eight grief
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