255. Acceptance Is Not a Place

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 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Most people are walking around wondering if they’ve reached acceptance in grief, as though it’s a place. This feeds right into the narrative that grief ends. But we know that it doesn’t.

Learn why acceptance is not a place but rather a choice we make over and over, and how you can begin thinking about acceptance as a constant opportunity.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/255

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast.
0:02.5	Episode 255, Acceptance is not a place.
0:07.5	Have you ever wondered whether you've reached the acceptance stage and if not what you can do about it?
0:13.0	This is one of the biggest myths in grief and in today's episode, I want to set the record straight about what acceptance really means.
0:22.6	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.
0:36.6	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach,
0:39.7	grief expert, widow and mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:45.0	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Just a reminder, we are now on YouTube.
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1:04.6	But if you'd like to listen there, you can. And a reminder, too, that April is always the month
1:09.6	that fills up the fastest for some reason from mom goes on. So if you've been thinking about checking it out, go to coaching with Krista.com, click on the work with me tab. It will explain so much about mom goes on and how it works. And if you missed the announcement last week, we now have a limited number of scholarships
1:28.3	available every month. And so if you are interested in that, go fill out the application.
1:34.3	And then you can email us at support at coaching with Krista.com. And we can see if it's a good
1:40.2	fit for you. Okay. So let's talk about acceptance. It's one of those things that
1:45.4	drives me a little bit crazy, but I understand how we got here, and I understand why we're
1:51.1	thinking about it wrong, and I want to set the record straight, at least the record as I see it.
1:57.5	So, if you are familiar with the five stages of grief, which was created by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in 1969
2:04.5	and documented in her book on death and dying and then later on grief and grieving,
2:09.9	the five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and lastly acceptance.
2:16.2	And so because of this work, well, because people have
2:21.4	misinterpreted this work, a lot of us are walking around wondering if we have reached acceptance,
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