273. Helpful Thoughts in 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

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Losing a loved one leaves us feeling like we’re at the effect of circumstances in life we didn’t and would never ask for. While we can’t change the significant loss we experience in grief, we can intentionally choose our internal experience of how we respond to life.

Learn why choosing helpful thoughts in grief matters, how the intentional thoughts you choose can shape your grief experience, and a list of helpful thoughts I encourage you to borrow.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/273

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 273, helpful thoughts in grief.
0:11.0	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. We're going to talk about helpful thoughts in grief
0:38.9	today. When this releases, if all is going well, I should be about to board a plane with my daughter.
0:46.0	We're heading to Argentina. She's going to spend the semester there. She got another opportunity
0:51.2	that's just too good to pass up. And instead of visiting her during the
0:55.3	middle of her semester, we decided we would do something fun together at the beginning of the
1:01.1	semester. So we're going to go out a week early and explore Buenos Aires and get comfortable
1:07.3	with the lay of the land and just have some good mom-daughter time. So I'm looking
1:11.8	forward to that. Sad to see her go away again. And also, let me just say this because it has come up
1:19.7	a bit since it is August and that it's not just on my mind. It's on many of my clients' minds, too.
1:25.9	So maybe it's on yours. If you are experiencing
1:29.7	stress, anxiety, worry, upset, grief about a child that is going away to school, I just want to
1:37.8	encourage you to let yourself feel how you feel about it. There's so much misery that we add to
1:43.9	the natural experience of grief that a lot of us have
1:48.5	when a child goes away to college, right? Grief is the natural human response to a perceived loss.
1:52.9	You've probably heard me say that quite a lot of times. That's my favorite definition.
1:57.6	And even though we expect them at some point to go away, to not live with us forever, it still can feel like a loss to us when a child goes away to college.
2:07.5	There's no right or wrong way to experience it.
2:09.5	But what makes our experience harder is when we tell ourselves that we're the only ones who feel this way, we shouldn't feel this way. We're feeling this way too
2:18.6	intensely. We don't want other people to know how we feel when we worry about water coming out of
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