272. Finding Strength in Loss: A Widows Unfiltered Interview with Berit Van Neste

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 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How do you allow yourself space to grieve without fighting your feelings? This is something my Mom Goes On client, Berit Van Neste, had to learn when she lost her husband, Roy, to dementia and began slowly putting the pieces of her life back together.

Berit shares her journey through love, loss, and finding herself again, and the surprising lessons she’s learned about navigating grief.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/272

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 272, Widows Unfiltered, an interview with Barrett Van Nest.
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 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. Two things. One, if you have not applied
0:38.9	for mom goes on, I highly encourage you to do so now because if you do it now, we can likely
0:43.9	get you in with a September cohort, which means you can be in a completely different place by the
0:48.7	holidays. If we get you started now, coaching with Krista.com, go to the work with me tab.
0:53.9	Second, I'm so sorry that in my
0:56.6	interview with Barrett, you have to listen to my nasally voice because I'm just getting over COVID.
1:01.6	So sorry about that. But I hope you love the interview. Barrett is amazing. You're going to love
1:06.5	her. I'm going to stop talking and we're going to jump in to my interview with Barrett. Enjoy.
1:12.1	All right. Welcome, Barrett. Before we hit record, I was just saying like, why did we not have you on the podcast sooner? And it kind of surprised me when I thought about it. Sometimes I forget. You know, I talk to you a lot. I have over the last few years. Sometimes I forget. Have I
1:29.2	actually had a conversation with this person on a podcast? And apparently we haven't. So,
1:33.6	sorry, it took so long. And I'm glad that we're having it. No worries. And I'm glad too.
1:39.7	Well, why don't you go ahead and just get us started, introduce yourself, tell people who you are,
1:46.2	a little bit about you. So my name is Barrett Van Nest, and I am a widow, obviously. I'm currently
1:56.0	pursuing a PhD in educational leadership, and I live in Florida, so, you know, pray for me. The, I have two kids
2:04.1	from my first marriage. My second husband is the one who passed away. So my two kids, they're
2:09.8	grown adults now. But they were young when I married my first husband, sorry, my second
2:15.9	husband. They were non-existent when I married my first
2:18.8	husband. As it often is the case, yes. Right. Yeah. So yeah, they were quite young. And he was,
2:27.7	his name was Roy. And he was quite a bit older than me. He actually had been a history professor at the university I attended, and he had been my
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