262. What Taylor Swift Got Wrong About Grief

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

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Swift is someone I have a lot of admiration and respect for. She’s a phenomenal artist and businesswoman with a list of accomplishments longer than most, but she missed the mark a few weeks ago and we have to talk about it.

Hear my thoughts on Taylor’s decision to categorize her songs using the five stages of grief, and why perpetuating a one-size-fits-all approach might be the antithesis of helpful.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/262

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 262, What Taylor Swift Got Wrong about grief.
0:09.0	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.
0:24.7	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:33.3	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast.
0:36.2	Exciting stuff if you are listening to this on Monday when it releases, because tomorrow is the start of grief essentials. Grief essentials is my brand new program, which I'm only teaching live once.
0:49.7	For people who are struggling with the chaos of navigating grief, feeling overwhelmed by it,
0:55.6	realizing that they don't actually know much about grief or that what they thought they knew
1:00.7	isn't helping, being told things by people around them that are actually perhaps making it
1:06.1	harder instead of easier, and really just looking for what I would have liked to have been given,
1:11.9	which was like an easy button in grief, right? They want grief to be easier. That's what grief
1:16.2	essentials is for. If you are interested, there is still time, but you must act quickly.
1:21.0	So go to coaching withcrisa.com forward slash grief essentials and you will learn all about it.
1:26.4	You can make sure it's for you and you can enroll.
1:30.7	And if it's still up by the time you hear this, maybe you're not hearing it on Monday.
1:35.0	If it's still up, I haven't yet exactly figured out if we're going to be able to accommodate
1:40.5	late registrations, but go ahead and check. If it's still up, there might be a possibility that we have figured out a way. If not, hopefully we'll do it again at some point in the
1:49.1	future. Okay. This topic is cracking me up, y'all. I posted something on Instagram about it,
1:55.9	and somebody was like, I've unfollowed you.
2:06.3	Listen, before I talk about it, I have to tell you, I love Taylor Swift, actually.
2:12.1	I'm not a Swifty, meaning I don't know all the details of her life and all her songs and everything.
2:15.8	But I actually have a lot of admiration and respect for Taylor Swift.
2:17.6	I think she is a phenomenal businesswoman. I think she is a phenomenal artist. She has a list of admiration and respect for Taylor Swift. I think she is a phenomenal businesswoman.
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