267. Why We Shouldn’t Grow from 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

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

I love the possibilities that post-traumatic growth gives us in grief, but while growth is always available to us, it is far from a “should.”

Whether you’re explicitly telling yourself that you should be growing from your grief, or your “should” is showing up in disguise, join me this week as I show you why you shouldn’t grow from grief unless you want to, and alternative ways to start seeing your grief experience.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/267

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 267, Why We Shouldn't Grow from Grief.
0:10.8	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
0:23.1	look forward to. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom,
0:30.7	Krista St. Germain.
0:33.3	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. If you're listening on the day this releases,
0:39.3	then it is almost time for me to leave to go on my long-awaited Alaskan cruise.
0:46.1	I don't know that I've really talked about it on the podcast, but I've never been to Alaska,
0:49.5	and it's been a bucket list thing. And I read that the summer is a good time to go check it out.
0:56.1	So we are taking the two youngest, because my daughter is in Colorado for the summer,
1:02.2	and the oldest, Todd's oldest, graduated and is married and all the things. So the two youngest
1:08.3	are going to come with us to Alaska for a 10-day cruise.
1:12.1	And I'm looking forward to it.
1:13.7	So that's about to happen.
1:15.3	I am also trying very hard these days to make spending time in my pool a priority,
1:21.5	which I realize doesn't maybe sound like the typical thing you would put on a goal list.
1:26.2	But it's been one of my goals
1:27.9	because I struggle to relax and not work. I'm pretty attached to what I do and it's sometimes
1:38.4	hard for me. I'm like looking at the pool as I record this podcast episode because I can see it
1:42.8	from my office window. And I spend a lot of
1:46.8	money making that pool look nice and keeping it nice. And there it is. And it's so easy for time to go
1:53.8	by without me intentionally spending time in there. I don't know what the equivalent of this
1:58.4	might be for you. And I know I have talked about this
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