276. The Unexpected Gifts of Grief: A Widows Unfiltered Interview with Helen Tanner

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

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

18 months ago, Helen Tanner was widowed after her husband Philip died unexpectedly following a short illness. In this episode, Helen shares her raw experience of becoming a widow at 43 years old, and how she’s navigating her grief as a doctor and mother of two.

Hear how Helen’s medical training left her ill-equipped to handle her grief, how she has helped her young boys process their anger and sadness in healthy ways, and the unexpected gifts that have emerged since her husband passed.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/276

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 276, Widows Unfiltered, an interview with Helen Tanner.
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
0:23.7	to. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:33.2	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. So I just finished my interview with Helen,
0:40.1	and I think I only cried twice. So I think that's a success.
0:48.4	You know, it really is so awesome to have a job that you love so much that it makes you want to cry,
0:57.8	tears of joy when you talk to the people that you work with. And I am so grateful to have that.
1:05.0	And I'm grateful to my past self who created it for me, who did a lot of hard work to get me here so that I have an amazing job
1:13.8	that makes a difference in the world where I get to help people and feel amazing about it.
1:19.8	And so yeah, just want to say that.
1:22.8	And then I'll tell you before we jump into the interview that tomorrow is the last day to qualify for
1:30.1	early bird pricing if you plan to join grief essentials. Grief essentials, again, is my eight-week
1:36.4	program. This is only the second time we've run it. And it is for those who want early grief
1:41.9	to be easier. We can't make grief easy, but we can make it easier
1:46.1	if we have the right tools and we have the right community. And that's what grief essentials is for.
1:50.1	And we start September 17th and tomorrow is the last day to take advantage of the early bird
1:55.9	pricing. So you can go to coaching with Krista.com forward slash grief essentials and find out about it there.
2:03.9	All right.
2:04.7	And with that, let's jump into my interview with Helen.
2:08.6	Enjoy.
2:10.1	All right.
2:10.8	Welcome, Helen.
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